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Continues the full-year sanctoral import: St. Angela Merici, St. Francis
Caracciolo, St. Boniface of Mainz (Bishop and Martyr, Apostle of Germany --
distinct from the earlier, unrelated St. Boniface Martyr already on May 14),
St. Norbert, St. Margaret of Scotland, and St. Aloysius Gonzaga.

Two of the new fixed dates (June 1, June 4) fall on dates used by two
day-label tests pinned to specific Trinity Sunday years; moved those to
years/dates free of the new entries, with explanatory comments.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-21.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-aloysius-gonzaga-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Cæléstium donórum distribútor, Deus, qui in angélico júvene Aloísio miram vitæ
innocéntiam pari cum pœniténtia sociásti: ejus méritis et précibus concéde; ut,
innocéntem non secúti, pœniténtem imitémur.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, bestower of heavenly gifts, Who in the angelic youth Aloysius joined
wondrous innocence of life to an equally wondrous love of penance; grant, by his
merits and prayers, that we who have not followed him in his innocence may imitate
him in his penance.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-01.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-angela-merici-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Deus, qui novum per beátam Angelam sacrárum Vírginum collégium in Ecclésia tua
floréscere voluísti: da nobis, ejus intercessióne, angélicis móribus vívere; ut,
terrénis ómnibus abdicátis, gáudiis pérfrui mereámur ætérnis.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, Whose will it hath been to use blessed Angela as a means whereby to make a new
fellowship of virgins to grow and flourish in Thy Church, grant unto us, at her
prayers, so angelically to live, that we may freely lay aside all earthly things, and
worthily enter upon the enjoyment of those things which are eternal.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-05.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-boniface-of-mainz-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Deus, qui multitúdinem populórum, beáti Bonifátii Mártyris tui atque Pontíficis
zelo, ad agnitiónem tui nóminis vocáre dignátus es: concéde propítius; ut, cujus
solémnia cólimus, étiam patrocínia sentiámus.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, Who, through the zeal of blessed Boniface, thy Martyr and Bishop, graciously
called a multitude of people to the knowledge of thy Name, mercifully grant that we
who keep his feast may also enjoy his patronage.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-04.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-francis-caracciolo-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Deus, qui beátum Francíscum, novi órdinis institutórem, orándi stúdio et
pœniténtiæ amóre decorásti: da fámulis tuis in ejus imitatióne ita profícere; ut,
semper orántes et corpus in servitútem redigéntes, ad cæléstem glóriam perveníre
mereántur.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, Who didst raise up thy blessed servant Francis to found a new Order in thy
Church, and didst ennoble him through earnestness in prayer and love of penance,
grant unto us after his example so to pray without ceasing and to bring our bodies
into subjection, that, in the end, we, like him, may worthily attain unto thy
heavenly glory.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-10.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-margaret-of-scotland-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Deus, qui beátam Margarítam regínam exímia in páuperes caritáte mirábilem
effecísti: da; ut, ejus intercessióne et exémplo, tua in córdibus nostris cáritas
júgiter augeátur.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, Who didst make Margaret, that blessed Queen, wonderful for tender love toward
the poor, grant that her intercession and example may be effectual to gain for our
hearts a thorough love toward thee.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-06.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-norbert-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Deus, qui beátum Norbértum Confessórem tuum atque Pontíficem verbi tui præcónem
exímium effecísti, et per eum Ecclésiam tuam nova prole fecundásti: præsta,
quǽsumus; ut, ejúsdem suffragántibus méritis, quod ore simul et ópere dócuit, te
adjuvánte, exercére valeámus.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, Who made blessed Norbert, thy Confessor and Bishop, a brilliant preacher of
thy word, and through him enriched thy Church with a new religious family, grant, we
beseech thee, that by his prayerful intercession and thy help, we may be able to do
what he has taught us by his words and deeds.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Confessor
# (June 21). Sourced directly from
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-21.txt, English/Sancti/06-21.txt.
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita.
# Nocturn 3: his own Gospel citation ends "Et réliqua"/"And so on"
# with no full pericope given -- per the bare-incipit convention, only
# the homily (Lectio7-9, St. John Chrysostom on virginity) is
# authored, isGospel: false, no citation field.
id: st-aloysius-gonzaga
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Aloisius, Ferdinandi Gonzagæ Castellionis Stiverorum marchionis filius,
festinato propter vitæ periculum baptismo, prius cælo quam terris nasci visus,
primam illam gratiam tam constanter retinuit, ut in ea confirmatus crederetur.
A primo rationis usu, quo se Deo statim obtulit, vitam duxit quotidie
sanctiorem. Novennis Florentiæ ante aram beatæ Virginis, quam parentis loco
semper habuit, perpetuam virginitatem vovit: eamque, insigni Dei beneficio,
nulla mentis aut corporis pugna tentatam servavit. Reliquas animi
perturbationes cœpit ætate illa tam fortiter comprimere, ut ne primo quidem
earum motu deínde incitaretur. Sensus etiam, oculos præcipue, ita cohibuit, ut
non modo illos numquam in faciem intenderit Mariæ Austriacæ, quam plures annos
inter honorarios Hispaniarum principis ephebos fere quotidie salutavit; sed a
matris étiam vultu contineret: homo propterea sine carne, aut angelus in carne
merito appellatus.
Adjecit sensuum custodiæ corporis cruciatum. Tria singulis hebdomadis jejunia,
eaque plerumque modico pane et aqua tolerabat, quamquam perpetuum fuísse per id
tempus ipsius jejunium videri potest, cum ejus prandia ferme vix unciam
æquarent. Sæpe étiam ter in die se funibus aut catenis cruentabat: flagella
quandoque canum loris, cilicia equorum calcaribus supplevit. Mollem lectulum
clam injectis asserum fragmentis asperabat, eo étiam ut citius ad orandum
excitaretur, magnam quippe noctis partem, summa étiam hieme, solo tectus
indusio, positis humi genibus, vel præ languore jacens ac pronus, in
cælestium contemplatione traducebat. Interdiu quoque tres, quatuor, quinque
horas in ea perstabat immotus, donec unam saltem animo nusquam distracto
percurrisset. Cujus constantiæ præmium fuit stabilitas mentis inter orandum
alio non vagantis, immo perpetua velut extasi in Deo defixæ. Ei demum ut
unice adhæreret, victo post triennale acerrimum certamen patre, et aviti
principatus jure in fratrem translato, societati Jesu, ad quam cælesti voce
Matriti fuerat accitus, Romæ se adjunxit.
In tirocinio ipso virtutum omnium magister haberi cœpit, Exactissima in eo
erat legum étiam minimarum custodia, mundi contemptus singularis, implacabile
odium sui, Dei vero amor tam ardens, ut corpus étiam sensim absumeret, Jussus
propterea mentem a divinis rebus tantisper avertere, occurrentem sibi ubique
Deum irrito conatu fugiebat. Mira étiam proximos caritate amplexus, in
publicis, quibus alacriter ministrabat, nosocomiis, contagiosam luem traxit,
Qua lente consumptus, die quem prædixerat, undecimo Kalendas Julii, ætatis
anno quarto et vigesimo jam inchoato, cum antea flagellis cædi, atque humi
stratus mori postulasset, migravit in cælum, Ibi eum sancta Maria Magdalena
de Pazzis tanta frui gloria, Deo monstrante, vidit, quantam vix esse in cælo
credidisset; ipsumque sanctimonia insignem, et caritate Martyrem incognitum
fuísse prædicavit, Multis étiam magnisque claruit miraculis, Quibus rite
probatis, Benedictus decimus tertius Sanctorum fastis angelicum juvenum
adscripsit, atque innocentiæ et castitatis exemplar simul et patronum
studiosæ præsertim juventuti dedit.
en: >-
Aloysius, eldest son of Ferdinand Gonzaga, Marquess of Castiglione, was so
hurriedly baptized on account of danger that he seemed to be born to heaven
almost before he was born to earth, and he so faithfully kept that his first
grace that he seemed to have been confirmed therein. From his first use of
reason, which he employed to offer himself to God, he led a life more holy day
by day. At Florence, when he was nine years old, he made a vow of perpetual
virginity before the Altar of the Blessed Virgin, upon whom he always looked
as in the place of a mother to him, and by a remarkable mercy from God, he
kept this vow wholly and without the slightest impure temptation, either of
mind or body, during his whole life. As for any other uprisings of the soul,
he began at that age to check them so sternly, that he was never more pricked
by even their earliest movements. His senses, and especially his eye-sight, he
so mortified, that he never once looked upon the face of Mary of Austria,
whom, when he was for several years one of the Pages of honour of the King of
Spain, he saluted almost every day; and he even denied himself in part the
pleasure of looking on the face of his own mother. He might indeed have been
justly called a fleshless man, or an infleshed angel.
With this fettering of the senses he added torture of the body. He kept three
days as fasts in every week, and that mostly upon a little bread and water.
But indeed he as it were fasted every day, for he hardly ever took so much as
an ounce weight of food at breakfast. Often also, even thrice in one day, he
would lash himself to flowing of blood with cords, or prick himself with
spiked chains. He sometimes used a dog-whip, instead of a scourge, and the
rowels of spurs instead of hair-cloth. He privately filled his soft bed with
pieces of broken plates, that he might find it easier to wake to pray. He
passed great part of the night, clad only in a shirt even in the depth of
winter, kneeling on the ground, or lying flat on his face when too weak and
weary to remain upright, busied with heavenly thoughts. Sometimes he would
keep himself thus for three, four, or five hours, until he had spent at least
one without any movement of body or any wandering of mind. Such perseverance
obtained for him the reward of being able to keep his understanding quite
concentrated in prayer without distraction, as though rapt in God in an
unbroken extasy. Desiring to give himself up to Him alone, he overcame, after
a strong opposition for three years, the objections of his father, procured
the transfer to his brother of his right to the Marquessate, and joined at
Rome the Society of Jesus, to which he had been called by a voice from heaven
when he was at Madrid.
In his very Noviciate he began to be held a master of all godliness. His
obedience to even the most trifling rules was absolutely exact, his
indifference to the world extraordinary, and his hatred of self implacable.
His love of God was so keen that it gradually undermined his bodily strength.
Being commanded to give his mind some rest from thinking unceasingly of God,
he struggled vainly to distract himself from Him Who met him everywhere. From
tender love toward his neighbour, he joyfully ministered to the sick in the
public hospitals, and in the exercise of this charity he caught a deadly
disease. This sickness slowly wore him away, and soon after he had entered on
the 24th year of his age, upon a day which he had himself foretold, after
entreating that he might be scourged, and laid upon the ground to die, he
passed away to heaven. What the glory is which he there enjoyeth holy Mary
Magdalen de' Pazzi was enabled, by the revelation of God, to behold, and she
declared that it was such as she had hardly believed existed even in heaven,
and that his holiness and love were so great that she should call him an
unknown martyr of charity. On earth God glorified him by many great miracles.
These being duly proved, Benedict XIII inserted the name of this angel lad in
the Kalendar of the Saints, and commended him to all young scholars both as a
pattern of innocency and purity, and as a patron.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "St. John Chrysostom, Book on Virginity"
text:
la: >-
Virginitas est bona: id ego quoque fateor. Atqui nuptiis étiam melior et
istud tibi assentior: ac si libet, illud adjungam, tanto nuptiis eam
præstare, quanto cælum terræ, quanto hominibus Angeli antecellunt: ac, si
quid præterea addendum est, étiam magis. Nam si neque nubunt Angeli, neque
uxorem ducunt, non étiam carne et sanguine coagmentati sunt: in terris
præterea non commorantur, non cupiditatum aut libidinum perturbationibus
sunt obnoxii; non cibi indigent, aut potus; non sunt ejusmodi, ut eos dulcis
sonus, aut cantus mollis, aut præclara species possit allicere; nulla
denique ejus generis illecebra capiuntur.
At humánum genus cum natura beatis illis mentibus inferius sit, omni vi
studioque contendit, ut, quoad ejus fieri potest, illas assequatur. Quomodo?
Non nubunt Angeli: at neque étiam virgo. Assistentes illi semper ad Deum,
eidem inserviunt; et istud ipsum virgo. Quod si virgines, quamdiu corporis
onere deprimuntur, quemadmodum Angeli in cælum nequeunt ascendere, illud eo
vel maximo solatio compensant, quod modo spiritu et corpore sancti sint,
cæli Regem recipiunt. Videsne virginitatis præstantiam? quomodo terrarum
incolas sic afficiat, ut qui corpore vestiti sunt, eos incorporeis mentibus
exæquet?
Qua enim, quæso, re differebant ab Angelis Elias, Eliseus, Joannes, veri hi
virginitatis amatores? Nulla, nisi quod mortali natura constabant. Nam
cetera si quis diligenter inquirat, hi nihilo minus affecti reperientur,
quam beatæ illæ mentes: et idipsum quo inferiore conditione videntur esse,
in magna est eorum laude ponendum. Ut enim terrarum incolæ, et ii qui essent
mortali natura, possent ad illam virtutem vi et contentione pervenire; vide
quanta eos fortitudine, quanta vitæ ratione præditos fuísse oporteat.
en: >-
This I say, that virginity is good. And in this I agree likewise, that it is
better than marriage. And I will even add, that it is as much more excellent
than marriage, as heaven is more noble than earth, or Angels than men, and
indeed, if I must say more, even more so. For if Angels neither marry nor are
given in marriage, at least, they are not creatures of flesh and blood, they
dwell not upon earth, they are exposed to no restless troublings of desire or
lust, they need neither meat nor drink, they are not such that sweet sound, or
soft song, or the delight of beauty can charm them; there is nothing of this
sort to take hold on them and draw them away.
Yet the human nature which striveth its utmost to follow them, is not so
exalted as that of these blessed intelligences. How? Angels marry not nor are
given in marriage; neither doth a virgin. Angels stand ever before God, and
serve Him; and so doth a virgin. But if a virgin, still weighed down with this
body, and unable, like the Angels, to ascend to heaven, doth make it his one
great comfort here to be holy in body and in spirit, and to open his heart for
a home for the King of heaven; dost thou not see wherein a virgin is higher
than an Angel? The excellence of virginity in men over virginity in Angels
lieth in this, that it maketh them which are yet earth-dwellers and
body-burdened equal to intelligences unshackled by bodies.
In what respect, I ask, differed Elijah, Elisha, and John, those great lovers
of virginity, from Angels? In nothing, except that their faithfulness was
exercised in a dying body. For the rest, if we look carefully, their minds
were no otherwise than those of the blessed spirits, and their crown of glory
is this: that they attained the same honour under conditions less favourable.
For consider of what manliness, of what superiority of reason over feeling
they must have been possessed, to enable them bravely to fight their way,
earth-dwellers and dying creatures as they were, to the bright summit of
grace which was theirs.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Angela Merici, Virgin (June 1).
# Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-01.txt,
# English/Sancti/06-01.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in her own file (her `[Rule]` is `vide
# C6a`) -- defers to the Common of a Virgin's own Nocturn 3, not
# transcribed here.
id: st-angela-merici
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Angela Merícia, Decentiáni, Veronénsis diœcésis óppido ad lacum Benácum in
dicióne Venéta, piis orta paréntibus, a prima ætáte virginitátis lílium, quod
perpétuo serváre statúerat, sédula sepsit. Ab omni mulíebri ornátu abhórrens,
egrégiam vultus formam pulchrámque cæsáriem studióse fœdávit, ut cælésti
dumtáxat animárum Sponso placéret. In ipso autem adolescéntiæ flore paréntibus
orbáta, austerióris vitæ desidério in desértum locum aufúgere tentávit; sed, ab
avúnculo prohíbita, novit præstáre domi, quod in solitúdine non lícuit. Cilício
ac flagéllis frequénter usa, carnem nónnisi infírma valetúdine, vinum in
Nativitátis et Resurrectiónis Domínicæ tantum celebritáte; complúres vero dies,
nihil omníno degustávit. Oratióni dédita, brevíssimum humi carpébat somnum.
Dæmónem vero sub lucéntis ángeli forma sibi illúdere conántem agnóvit prótinus,
et conjécit in fugam. Tandem patérnis bonis abdicátis, et hábitum ac régulam
tértii órdinis sancti Francísci ampléxa, evangélicam paupertátem virginitátis
laudi conjúnxit.
Nullum pietátis offícium erga próximos omíttens, paupéribus, quidquid sibi ex
mendicáto victu superésset, largiebátur; libénter ministrábat ægrótis, plúraque
cum magna sanctitátis fama peragrávit loca, ut vel solátio esset afflíctis, vel
reis véniam impetráret, vel infénsos ínvicem reconciliáret ánimos, vel e
vitiórum cœno sceléstos revocáret. Angelórum pane, quem únice esuriébat,
frequentíssime refécta, tanta caritátis vi ferebátur in Deum, ut sæpius extra
sensus raperétur. Sacra Palæstínæ loca, summa cum religióne, obívit; quo in
itínere et visum, quem ad Cydónias appúlsa oras amíserat, eódem regréssa
recuperávit, et barbarórum captivitátem ac naufrágium ímminens divínitus
evásit. Romam dénique, firmam Ecclésiæ petram veneratúra et amplíssimæ jubilæi
véniæ percúpida, sedénte Cleménte séptimo, accéssit; quam summus Póntifex
allocútus, ejúsdem sanctimóniam suspéxit et commendávit summópere; nec ab Urbe
ipsam abíre ante permísit, quam álio cælitus vocátam agnóvit.
Bríxiam ítaque, ubi domum ad sanctæ Afræ templum condúxit, revérsa, novam ibi
vírginum societátem, sicut cælésti voce ac visióne mandátum sibi fúerat, sub
certa disciplína sanctísque vivéndi régulis constítuit, quam sanctæ Ursulæ
invíctæ vírginum ducis patrocínio ac nómine insignívit: eam vero perénnem
futúram morti próxima prædíxit. Tandem prope septuagenária, dives méritis
evolávit in cælum sexto Kaléndas Februárii anni millésimi quingentésimi et
quadragésimi. Cujus cadáver per ipsos trigínta dies inhumátum, flexíbile ac vivo
simíllimum perseverávit. Demum in sanctæ Afræ templo inter céteras, quibus illud
abúndat, Sanctórum relíquias repósito, plúrima ad ejus sepúlcrum agi statim
cœpére mirácula; quorum fama late diffúsa, non Bríxiæ modo et Decentiáni, sed
álibi étiam vulgo cœpit nuncupári beáta, ejúsque imágo aris impóni: immo sanctus
ipse Cárolus Borromæus non multis post annis dignam, quæ ab apostólica Sede in
sanctárum Vírginum album referrétur, Bríxiæ palam asséruit. Cultum vero illi
jámdiu a pópulis exhíbitum, et et tum locórum Ordináriis probátum, tum plúribus
étiam summórum Pontíficum indúltis munítum, Clemens Papa décimus tértius
solémni decréto ratum hábuit ac confirmávit. Eam tandem, novis miráculis rite
probátis insígnem, Pius Papa séptimus, solémni canonizatióne in Vaticána
basílica perácta, die vigésima quarta Maji anno millésimo octingentésimo
séptimo, sanctárum Vírginum catálogo adscrípsit.
en: >-
Angela Merici was born of godly parents at Decenzano on the western shore of the
Lake of Garda, in the diocese of Verona and territory of Venice. From her
earliest years she carefully guarded the lily of her virginity, with the
intention of keeping it for ever unbroken. She had no taste for women's finery,
and purposely marred the exceeding comeliness of her body and her sightly hair,
as seeking to appear beautiful only in the eyes of Him Who is the Lover of
souls. At ten years of age she lost both her father and mother, and thereafter,
being fain to take upon her a life of greater hardness, she essayed to retire
into a desert place apart, but this her uncle forbade her to do, and she learnt
how to practice at home what she was not allowed to attempt in the wilderness.
She often used hair-cloth and scourging; never ate flesh-meat, except when she
was sick; drank wine only on the Feast-days of Christmas and Easter; and many a
day took nothing at all. She was instant in prayer. What little sleep she took,
she took lying on the ground. The devil strove to beguile her, appearing under
the form of an angel of light, but she quickly detected him and put him to
flight. At length she added to the glory of virginity that poverty which is
commended in the Gospel; she gave up all that she had, and adopted the dress and
rule of the Third Order of St. Francis.
She left undone no service of kindness which she was able to do to her
neighbors. If there remained anything over of the food which was given in alms
to herself, she gave that to the poor. She cheerfully waited upon the sick. She
journeyed about, with a great reputation for holiness, comforting the afflicted,
asking forgiveness for the guilty, reconciling the angry, and recalling the
wicked from evil. Her only hunger was for the bread of Angels, and she took the
Same right often, and then arose in her vehemence of love bearing her towards
God, which oftentimes made her beside herself. She made a pilgrimage, with
intense feeling, to the Holy Places in Palestine, during which journey she lost
her sight at Canea in Crete on her way out, and recovered it at the same place
on her way home. In this journey also, God saved her from being made prisoner by
the unbelievers and from shipwreck. She went to Rome at once to pray at the
immovable Rock of the Church, and to gain the abundant pardons of the Jubilee.
Pope Clement VII conversed with her, was edified by her holiness, and highly
commended her; neither would he let her leave Rome, until he knew that God was
calling her elsewhere.
She went back to Brescia, and there hired an house near the Church of St. Afra,
in which house, in obedience to a vision and command from heaven, she founded a
new Order of religious women, constituted under certain rules and holy
regulations of life. This Order she put under the name and patronage of St.
Ursula, the fearless leader of maidens. When Angela was near to death, she
foretold that this Order will never cease. She was well-nigh three score and ten
years of age, and full of good works, when she winged her flight heavenward. Her
dead body lay unburied thirty days, supple and life-like. It was laid at last in
the Church of St. Afra, where sleep so many more of God's holy children. Diverse
miracles forthwith began to be worked at her grave. The fame of these being
noised about, she began to be commonly called Blessed, and that not only at
Brescia and Decenzano; and pictures of her were put over Altars. Not many years
afterward, holy Charles Borromeo said openly at Brescia, that she was one whose
name the Apostolic See might well enroll among those of holy virgins. The
reverence which had of a long time been shown to her memory was approved by the
local Ordinaries, confirmed by diverse Papal Indults, and solemnly ratified and
established by decree of Pope Clement XIII. As she continued famous for new and
proved miracles, Pope Pius VII, at the solemn canonization held in the Vatican
Basilica, added her name to the list of holy maids.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr
# (June 5). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-05.txt,
# English/Sancti/06-05.txt. Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one
# reading, one continuous vita. Nocturn 3: his own Gospel citation ends
# "Et réliqua"/"And so on" with no full pericope given -- per the
# bare-incipit convention, only the homily (Lectio7-9, St. Augustine of
# Hippo) is authored, isGospel: false, no citation field.
id: st-boniface-of-mainz
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Bonifátius, ántea Winfrídus appellátus, apud Anglos natus est exeúnte sæculo
séptimo, et ab ipsa infántia mundum aversátus, vitam monásticam in votis
hábuit. Cum ejus pater ánimum sæculi illécebris permutáre frustra tentásset,
monastérium ingréditu, et sub beáti Wolphárdi disciplína ómnium virtútum ac
scientiárum génere imbúitur. Annum agens trigésimum sacerdótio insignítur, ac
verbi divíni prædicátor assíduus, magno animárum lucro hoc in múnere versátur.
Attamen, regnum Christi adaugére desíderans, contínuo flebat ingéntem
multitúdinem barbarórum, qui ignorántiæ ténebris immérsi dæmoni famulabántur.
Qui quidem animárum zelus cum in dies inexstinguíbili ardóre accrésceret,
divíno númine per lácrimas et oratiónes exploráto, facultátem a monastérii
præpósito obtínuit ad Germánicas oras proficiscéndi.
Ex Anglia duóbus cum sóciis navem solvens, Dorestádium in Frísiæ óppidum venit.
Cum autem bellum gravíssimum inter Frísonum regem Radbódum et Cárolum
Martéllum exarsísset, sine fructu Evangélium prædicávit. Quaprópter in Angliam
revérsus, ad suum redívit monastérium, cui invítus præfícitur. Post elápsum
biénnium, ex consénsu epíscopi Vintoniénsis, munus abdicávit, et Romam
proféctus est, ut apostólica auctoritáte ad Gentílium conversiónem
delegarétur. Cum ad Urbem pervenísset, a Gregório secúndo benígne excípitur,
pro Winfrído Bonifátius a Pontífice nominátur. In Germániam diréctus,
Thuríngiæ Saxoniæque pópulis Christum annuntiávit. Cum intérea Radbódus,
Frísiæ rex ac infestíssimus christiáni nóminis hostis, occubuísset, Bonifátius
ad Frísones rédiit, ubi sancti Willibrórdi sócius per triénnium tanto cum
fructu Evangélium prædicávit, ut, destrúctis idolórum simulácris, innúmeræ vero
Deo ecclésiæ excitaréntur.
A sancto Willibrórdo ad episcopále munus expetítus, illud detrectávit ut
prómpius infidélium salúti instáret. In Germániam proféctus, plura Hassórum
míllia a dæmonis superstitióne avocávit. A Gregório Pontífice Romam evocátus,
post insígnem fídei professiónem epíscopus consecrátur. Exínde ad Germános
redux, Hássiam et Thuríngiam ab idololatríæ relíquiis pénitus expurgávit.
Tanta propter mérita Bonifátius a Gregório tértio ad dignitátem
archiepiscopálem evéhitur, et tértio Romam proféctus a summo Pontífice Sedis
apostólicæ legátus constitúitur. Qua insignítus auctoritáte quátuor
episcopátus instítuit, et várias synodos celebrávit, inter quas concílium
Leptinénse memorábile est, apud Belgas in Cameracénsi diœcési celebrátum, quo
quidem témpore ad fidem in Bélgio adaugéndam egrégie cóntulit. A Zacharía Papa
creátus Mogúntius archiepíscopus, ipso Pontífice jubénte, Pipínum in regem
Francórum unxit. Post mortem sancti Willibrórdi Ultrajecténsem ecclésiam
gubernándum suscépit, primo per Eóbanum, deínde per seípsum, dum ab ecclésia
Moguntína absolútus Ultrajécti resédit. Frisónibus ad idololatríam relápsis,
Evangélium prædicáre rursus aggréditur, cumque offício pastoráli occuparétur, a
bárbaris et ímpiis homínibus juxta Bornam flúvium cum Eóbano coëpíscopo
multísque áliis cruénta cæde perémptus martyrii palma condecorátur. Corpus
sancti Bonifátii Mogúntiam translátum, et, ut ipse vivens petíerat, in
Fuldénsi monastério, quod exstrúxerat, recónditum fuit, ubi multis miráculis
incláruit.
en: >-
Winfried, afterwards called Boniface, was an Englishman, and born in England,
towards the end of the seventh century. From his very childhood, he turned away
from the world, and set his heart upon becoming a monk. His father tried in vain
to turn him from his wishes by the beguilements of the world, and he entered a
Monastery, where the Blessed Wolphard instructed him in all godliness and
diverse kinds of learning. At the age of twenty-nine years he was ordained
Priest, and became an unwearied preacher of the Word of God, wherein he had a
gift which he used with great gain of souls. Nevertheless, his great desire was
to spread the kingdom of Christ, and he continually bewailed the vast number of
savages who were plunged in the darkness of ignorance and were the servants of
the devil. This zealous love of souls increased in him in intensity day by day,
till nothing would serve him, but, having implored the blessing of God by tears
and prayers, and obtained authority from the head of his monastery, to set forth
for the coast of Germany.
He set sail from England with two companions and reached the town of Dorestadt
in Friesland. A great war being then raging between Radbod, King of the
Frieslanders, and Charles Martel, Winfrid preached the Gospel in vain. He went
back to England, and betook himself again to his Monastery, whereof he was,
against his own will, chosen to be the head. After two years he obtained the
consent of the Bishop of Winchester to resign his office, and went to Rome, to
seek an Apostolic commission to preach to the heathen. When he arrived at the
city he was courteously welcomed by Gregory II., who changed his name from
Winfrid to Boniface. He departed thence to Germany, and preached Christ to the
tribes in Thuringia and Saxony. Radbod, King of Friesland, who bitterly hated
the Christian name, being dead, Boniface went a second time among the
Frieslanders, and there, with his comrade St. Willibrord, preached the Gospel
for three years with so much fruit, that the idols were hewn down, and
countless churches arose to the true God.
Willibrord urged upon him to take the office of a Bishop, but he deferred to
seek it, that he might the more instantly toil for the salvation of the
unbelievers. Advancing into Germany, he reclaimed thousands of the Hessians
from devil-worship. Pope Gregory sent for him to Rome, and after hearing a noble
profession of his faith, consecrated him a Bishop. He again returned to
Germany, and thoroughly purged Hesse and Thuringia from all remains of idolatry.
On account of such great works Gregory III. advanced Boniface to the dignity
of an Archbishop, and on the occasion of a third journey to Rome, he was
invested by the Sovereign Pontiff with the powers of Legate of the Apostolic
See. As such, he founded four Bishoprics, and held diverse Synods, among which
is especially to be remembered that of Lessines, held in Belgium, in the
diocese of Cambrai, wherein he made his strongest endeavours to spread the
Faith among the Belgians. By Pope Zacharias, he was named Archbishop of
Maintz, and by command of the same Pope, he anointed Pepin to be King of the
Franks. After the death of St. Willibrord, he undertook the government of the
Church of Utrecht, at first through Eoban but he afterwards was released from
the care of the Church of Maintz and established his see at Utrecht. The
Frieslanders having again fallen back into idolatry, he once more betook
himself to preach the Gospel among them, and while he was busied in this duty,
he grasped the crown of martyrdom, being murdered by some ungodly savages,
along with his fellow-Bishop Eoban, and many others, in a bloody massacre near
the River Born. In accordance with the wish expressed by himself during life
the body of St. Boniface was carried to Maintz, and buried in the monastery of
Fulda, of which he had been the founder, and where God has gloriously honoured
it by the working of many signs and wonders.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "St. Augustine of Hippo, Book I on the Lord's Sermon on the Mount, ch. 2-3"
text:
la: >-
Beáti mundo corde; quóniam ipsi Deum vidébunt. Quam ergo stulti sunt, qui Deum
istis exterióribus óculis quærunt, cum corde videátur, sicut álibi scriptum
est: Et in simplicitáte cordis quærite illum. Hoc est enim mundum cor, quod est
simplex cor. Et quemádmodum lumen hoc vidéri non potest, nisi óculis mundis;
ita nec Deus vidétur, nisi mundum sit illud quo vidéri potest. Beáti pacífici;
quóniam ipsi fílii Dei vocabúntur. In pace perféctio est, ubi nihil repúgnat;
et ídeo fílii Dei pacífici, quóniam nihil in his resístit Deo, et útique fílii
similitúdinem patris habére debent.
Pacífici autem in semetípsis sunt, qui omnes ánimi sui motus componéntes, et
subjiciéntes ratióni, id est menti et spirítui, carnalésque concupiscéntias
habéntes edómitas, fiunt regnum Dei. In quo ita sunt ordináta ómnia, ut id
quod est in hómine præcípuum et excéllens, hoc ímperet, céteris non
reluctántibus, quæ sunt nobis bestiísque commúnia; atque idípsum quod
excélluit in hómine, id est mens et rátio, subjiciátur potióri, quod est ipsa
véritas, unigénitus Fílius Dei. Neque enim imperáre inferióribus potest, nisi
superióri se ipse subjíciat. Et hæc est pax, quæ datur in terra homínibus
bonæ voluntátis; hæc vita consummáti perfectíque sapiéntis.
De hujúsmodi regno pacatíssimo et ordinatíssimo missus est foras princeps
hujus sæculi, qui pervérsis inordinatísque dominátur. Hac pace intrínsecus
constitúta atque firmáta, quascúmque persecutiónes ille, qui foras missus est,
forínsecus concitáverit, auget glóriam, quæ secúndum Deum est; non áliquid in
illo ædifício labefáctans, sed deficiéntibus máchinis suis innotéscere fáciens,
quanta fírmitas intus exstrúcta sit. Ideo séquitur: Beáti, qui persecutiónem
patiúntur propter justítiam; quóniam ipsórum est regnum cælórum.
en: >-
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. What fools then be they
that seek God with their outward eyes, since it is in the heart that He is
seen, as it is written elsewhere: In simplicity of heart seek Him. A simple
heart is a pure heart. And even as we cannot see this earthly light, unless the
eyes be open, so cannot God be seen, unless that be open which alone can
perceive Him. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the
children of God. The perfection of peace is the absence of contrariety, and the
peacemakers are called the children of God because they offer no contrariety
against the will of God. As beseemeth children, they have their Father's
likeness.
They are peacemakers in themselves, who order all the movements of their own
mind in obedience to reason, that is, to their intellect and soul, and so
doing, and taming the lusts of the flesh, become a kingdom for God. In such
kingdom all things are so ordered, that the chiefest and noblest part of man
ruleth without contention over those lower things which we have in common with
beasts. And just in the same way, must that nobler part of man, that is to say,
intellect and reason, needs be put in subjection to what is above it, namely,
Truth, the Only begotten Son of God. He only can rule well who hath learnt to
obey. And this ordering is that peace which is given on earth to men of good
will; this is the life of whomsoever is thoroughly and perfectly wise.
From this most peaceful and most orderly kingdom is cast forth the prince of
this world, whose rule is over the contentious and disorderly. When once this
peace hath been proclaimed and established within, whatsoever wars he that is
without can raise, can but heap more glory upon that glory which is according
to God, for nothing of the castle will yield before him, but the yielding of
his own engines will witness how strong be its ramparts. And therefore cometh
next: Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs
is the kingdom of heaven.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Francis Caracciolo, Confessor
# (June 4). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-04.txt,
# English/Sancti/06-04.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in his own file (his `[Rule]` is `vide
# C5`) -- defers to the Common of a Confessor's own Nocturn 3, not
# transcribed here.
id: st-francis-caracciolo
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Francíscus, dictus ántea Ascánius, ex nóbili família Carácciolo in óppido
sanctæ Maríæ de Villa in Aprútio ortus, a primis annis exímio enítuit pietátis
cultu. Adoléscens gráviter ægrótans státuit sese prorsus Dei proximíque
mancipáre servítio. Neápolim proféctus, sacerdótio initiátus sacróque
adscríptus sodalítio, contemplatióni lucrandísque animábus se totum devóvit, ac
extrémo supplício damnátis hortatórem se præbuit assíduum. Cóntigit autem, ut
epístolum álteri destinátum ei per errórem redderétur, quo a piíssimis viris
Joánne Augustíno Adórno et Fabrício Carácciolo ad novi religiósi institúti
fundatiónem vocabátur. Rei novitáte captus et divínæ voluntátis demirátus
consília, álacri ánimo sese illis adjúnxit. Cónditis autem in Camaldulénsium
erémo, quo secésserant, novi órdinis légibus, inde Romam simul profécti
confirmatiónem a Xysto quinto impetrárunt, qui eósdem cléricos reguláres
Minóres appellári vóluit, áddito ad tria consuéta áltero de non ambiéndis
dignitátibus voto.
Solémni emíssa professióne, ob singulárem ejus in divum Francíscum
Assisinátem cultum, Francísci nomen assúmpsit. Adórno biénnio post vita
functo, ipse toti religióni, quamquam invítus, præfícitur; quo in múnere
virtútum ómnium præclára præbuit exémpla. Institúti amplificándi studiosíssimus,
id assíduis oratiónibus, lácrimis, et jugi córporis maceratióne eníxe a Deo
postulábat. Quam ob rem tértio in Hispániam se cóntulit, peregríni hábitu
indútus, victúmque ostiátim mendícans. In itínere aspérrima quæque perpéssus,
Omnipoténtis auxílium mirum in modum expértus, navim quam conscénderat, ab
imminénti naufrágio oratiónis præsídio servávit incólumem. Ut in regnis illis
voti compos fíeret, plúrimum laborávit; sed, ejus sanctitátis fama prælucénte,
amplissimáque catholicórum regum Philíppi secúndi et Philíppi tértii
munificéntia, adversariórum conátibus singulári ánimi fortitúdine superátis,
plura sui órdinis domicília fundávit: quod pari evéntu per Itáliam præstitit.
Humilitáte ádeo excélluit, ut Romam véniens, in páuperum hospítio recéptus, se
lepróso sociáverit, et ecclesiásticas dignitátes a Paulo quinto sibi oblátas
constantíssime recusáverit. Illibátam perpétuo servávit virginitátem,
effrontésque mulíeres, ejus castimóniæ insidiántes, Christo lucrifécit. Erga
diviníssimum Eucharístiæ mystérium ardénti æstuans amóre, noctes pene íntegras
in ejus adoratióne insómnes ducébat: quod pium exercítium, véluti sui órdinis
tésseram, in eo perpétuo servándum constítuit. Deíparæ Vírginis cultum impénse
fovit. In próximum exímia exársit caritáte. Prophetíæ dono et córdium
scrutatióne ditátus fuit. Quadragésimum quartum ætátis suæ annum agens, dum in
sacra Lauretána, æde in oratióne persísteret, sibi vitæ finem imminére cognóvit.
Aprútium statim defléxit, et in óppido Agnóni apud alúmnos sancti Philíppi
Nerii letháli febre corréptus, sacraméntis Ecclésiæ devotíssime suscéptis,
prídie Nonas Júnii anni millésimi sexcentésimi octávi, in pervigílio festi
Córporis Christi, placidíssime obdormívit in Dómino. Sacrum ejus corpus,
Neápolim delátum, in ecclésia sanctæ Maríæ Majóris, ubi prima sui órdinis
jécerat fundaménta, honorífice cónditum fuit.
en: >-
This Francis, whose worldly name was Ascanius, was one of the noble family of
Caracciolo. He was born in the town of Santa Maria della Villa, in the Abruzzi.
From his earliest years he showed great marks of godliness. When he was a young
man he had a severe illness, and on his recovery determined to serve God only,
and bade farewell to the world. He betook himself to Naples, where he was
ordained Priest, enrolled himself in a devout guild, and gave himself up
altogether to seek after God, and to gain souls for Him, in which work he
showed himself an unwearied comforter to such prisoners as were condemned to
death. It came to pass that those two great servants of God, John Augustine
Adorno and Fabricius Caracciolo, wrote a letter to a certain person, wherein
they exhorted him to found a new religious Institute. This letter came by a
mistake to be delivered to Francis Caracciolo. The newness of the idea and the
strange ways of God's Providence took possession of his mind, and he joyfully
added himself to their company. They withdrew themselves to the wilderness of
the Camaldolese hermits, and there concerted the Rule of the New Order. Thence
they went together to Rome, and obtained the confirmation of their work from
Sixtus V, who was pleased that they should be called The Lesser Clerks Regular,
since they add to the three accustomed vows a fourth, binding themselves not to
seek preferment in the Church.
Ascanius Caracciolo, moved by a special love and devotion he had to the holy
Francis of Assisi, took, when he made his solemn profession, the name of
Francis. After two years, John Adorno departed this life, and Francis, against
his own will, was made Head of the Order. In this office he shone a burning
light of grace. Devoted to the prosperity of the Institute, he earnestly sought
the blessing of God upon it, by constant prayer, by tears, and by stern
treatment of his own body. In this work, he thrice travelled into Spain in the
guise of a pilgrim, and begging his bread from door to door. In these his
journeys he suffered very great hardships, and was most wonderfully helped by
the Almighty, especially one while when he was on shipboard and the ship nigh
to perish, but for the work of his prayers. He toiled hard in those countries to
attain his wishes, but through the widespread fame of his holy life, and the
noble generosity of the Most Catholic Kings Philip II. and Philip III., he
overcame with his brave perseverance the opposition of all that withstood him,
and founded several houses of his Order. This he was able to do in Italy also.
There was a great pattern of lowliness, so that when he came to Rome he betook
himself to an almshouse, and chose a leper for his familiar friend. Paul V.
offered him diverse honours in the Church, but he firmly refused them all. He
preserved his purity unspotted, and when certain shameless women set themselves
to attack his chastity, he took the occasion to gain over their souls for
Christ. Toward God's great mystery of the Eucharist he was drawn with
passionate tenderness, and would pass almost whole nights without sleep, simply
adoring It. This godly custom he established in his Order, to be kept up
therein for ever, the peculiar mark thereof. He was a great encourager of the
worship of the Maiden Mother of God. He was hot with strong love for his
neighbour. He was gifted with prophecy, and the discerning of spirits. In the
forty-fourth year of his age he was continuing long in prayer in the Holy House
of Loretto, when it was made known to him that the end of his earthly life was
at hand. He straightway took his way to the Abruzzi, and was there seized with
illness while he was with the disciples of St. Philip Neri, in the town of
Agnone. He received with great devotion the Sacraments of the Church, and then,
upon the 4th day of June, being the Eve of the Feast of the Body of Christ, in
the year 1608, he very peacefully fell asleep in the Lord. His sacred body was
carried to Naples, and there honourably buried in the Church of St. Mary the
Greater, where he had laid the first foundations of his Order.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Margaret, Queen and Widow (June 10).
# Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-10.txt,
# English/Sancti/06-10.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous vita. (Note: the source's own Lectio94 gives a different
# death date, Nov. 16, than Lectio6's June 11 -- an inconsistency
# already present in the reference engine's own text, not introduced
# here; Lectio4-6 is the fuller, internally-consistent account and is
# what's transcribed.) No Lectio7-9 in her own file (her `[Rule]` is
# `vide C7a`) -- defers to the Common's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed
# here.
id: st-margaret-of-scotland
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Margarita, Scotórum regína, paterno Angliæ regum, materno Cæsárum sánguine
claríssima, illustrior adhuc fuit christiana virtúte. Hæc in Hungária nata, ubi
pater tunc témporis exsulabat, post exactam summa cum pietáte puerílem
ætátem, una cum genitore, qui a sancto Eduárdo patruo, Anglórum rege, ad
paterni regni fastigium vocabátur, in Angliam venit. Mox, alternante paréntum
fortuna, ex Angliæ littore solvens, vi tempestátis expulsa, seu verius divinæ
providéntiæ consílio deducta est in oram marítimam Scotiæ. Ibi cum ex matris
imperio Malchólmo tertio Scotórum regi, egregiis ejus dótibus capto,
nupsísset, sanctimóniæ ac pietátis opéribus, trigínta quibus regnávit annis,
toti regno mirifice prófuit.
Inter regales delicias corpus afflictatiónibus ac vigiliis mácerans, magnam
noctis partem piis precatiónibus extrahebat. Præter alia jejunia, quæ
idéntidem usurpabat, íntegros quadragínta dies ante Natalícia festa tanta cum
severitáte jejunare consuevit, ut ne in gravíssimis quidem dolóribus
intermiserit. Divino cultui addictíssima, templa pluria et cœnobia partim ex
íntegro excitávit, partim resarcívit, et sacra supelléctili ac largo censu
ditávit. Regem cónjugem ad meliórem frugem et ad simília suis exercitatiónibus
ópera saluberrimo exemplo traduxit, liberosque omnes tam sancte et féliciter
educávit, ut eórum plerique, quemádmodum et Agatha mater, et Christina soror,
sanctíssimum vitæ genus ampléxi sint. Universi demum regni felicitáti
cónsulens, a vitiis ómnibus, quæ furtim irrepserant, pópulos expurgávit,
eisque mores christiana pietáte dignos restituit.
Nihil tamen æque in illa mirábile fuit ac flagrantíssima caritas erga
próximos, præsertim egénos, quorum numerosis grégibus non modo stipem áffatim
suppeditare, verum étiam trecentis quotídie materna benignitate dapes
præbére, flexis genibus in morem ancíllæ ministrare, regiis mánibus pedes
ablúere, et pressis étiam ósculis úlcera fovére, solemne hábuit. His porro
aliisque piis sumptibus non regias tantum vestes et preiosa monília distraxit,
sed ipsum non semel exhausit ærárium. Tolerátis demum ad patiéntiæ miraculum
acerbíssimis dolóribus, ánimam semestri corporis ægrotatióne purgatam Auctori
suo, sextodecimo Kalendas Decembris, réddidit. Quo témporis momento fácies
ejus, diuturni morbi macie ac pallore fœdata, insólita quadam venustáte
reflóruit. Miris étiam post mortem prodigiis clara, et Clementis décimi
auctoritate in Scotiæ patronam accepta, ubíque terrárum religiosíssime
cólitur.
en: >-
Margaret, Queen of Scots, was most noble by birth, uniting in herself, from her
father the blood of the Kings of England and from her mother the blood of the
Caesars, but her greatest nobleness was in her brave Christian life. She was
born in Hungary, where her father was then an exile, and had passed a
religious childhood, when her uncle Edward, the holy King of England, recalled
him to his own royal home, and she came to England with him. A few years
after, upon the ruin of her family, she was escaping from England by sea, when
the violence of the weather, or, to speak more truly, the Providence of God,
caused that the ship should take refuge upon the coast of Scotland. There her
extraordinary graces of mind and body so attracted King Malcolm III., that by
the advice of his mother, he took her to wife, and of Scotland she deserved
exceedingly well for the thirty years of her reign, by the holiness of her
life and the abundance of her works of mercy.
In the midst of kingly dainties, she afflicted her body with hardships and
watching, using to spend great part of the night in earnest prayer. Besides
other fasts which she imposed upon herself, it was her custom to observe one of
forty days before Christmas, concerning which fast she was so rigid, that she
would not relax it even under sharp suffering. She took great delight in the
public worship of God, and founded or renewed a great number of Churches and
convents, which she enriched at great cost with sacred furniture. Her healthy
example drew the King her husband to habits of sobriety, and to imitate her in
her good works. To all her children she had the happiness of giving a godly
education, and several of them, like her mother Agatha and her sister
Christina, led notable holy lives. The happiness of the whole kingdom was the
object for which she constantly strove, and she successfully rooted out all the
vices which had stealthily crept in, and established among the people a
standard of living worthy of Christians.
The most remarkable feature of her life was the tenderness of her charity
toward her neighbour, especially the needy. Of these she would not only order
whole flocks to be relieved, but was accustomed to give dinner to three hundred
of them every day, treating them with the tenderness of a mother, and waiting
upon them on her knees like a maidservant. She held it one of the privileges of
her rank to wash their feet with her own Royal hands, and to dress their
sores, which latter she would even kiss. To meet the expenses of her charities
she sold not only her queenly raiment and her precious jewels, but more than
once exhausted her funds entirely. Purified by grievous suffering, which she
bore with marvelous patience during an illness of six months, she resigned her
soul into the hands of Him Who had created it. At the moment of death, the
bystanders saw her poor worn face, pale and disfigured by continual suffering,
flush again with a beauty to which it had long been unused. After her death she
became illustrious on account of great signs and wonders. With the approval of
Clement X., she was chosen Patroness of Scotland, and her memory is held in
profound reverence throughout the whole earth.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Norbert, Bishop and Confessor
# (June 6). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-06.txt,
# English/Sancti/06-06.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in his own file (his `[Rule]` is `vide
# C4`) -- defers to the Common of a Confessor Bishop's own Nocturn 3,
# not transcribed here.
id: st-norbert
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Norbértus, nobilíssimis paréntibus natus, adoléscens liberálibus disciplínis
erudítus, in ipsa póstea imperatóris aula, spretis mundi illécebris,
ecclesiásticæ milítiæ adscríbi vóluit. Sacris initiátus, rejéctis móllibus ac
spléndidis véstibus, pellícea melóte indútus, prædicatióni verbi Dei se totum
dedit. Abdicátis ecclesiásticis provéntibus satis amplis, et património in
páuperes erogáto, semel in die sub vésperam solo cibo quadragesimáli utens,
nudísque pédibus et lácera veste sub brumáli rigóre incédens, miræ
austeritátis vitam est aggréssus. Potens ígitur ópere et sermóne, innúmeros
hæréticos ad fidem, peccatóres ad pœniténtiam, dissidéntes ad pacem et
concórdiam revocávit.
Cum Laudúni esset, ab epíscopo rogátus ne a sua diœcési discéderet, desértum
in ea locum, qui Præmonstrátus dicebátur, sibi delégit; ibíque, trédecim
sóciis aggregátis, Præmonstraténsem órdinem instítuit, divínitus accépta per
visum régula a sancto Augustíno. Cum vero ejus fama sanctitátis in dies magis
augerétur, ac plúrimi ad eum quotídie discípuli convenírent, idem ordo ab
Honório secúndo aliísque summis Pontifícibus confirmátus, ac plúribus ab eo
monastériis ædificátis, mirífice propagátus est.
Antvérpiam accersítus, in ea urbe Tanchelíni nefáriam hæresim profligávit.
Prophético spíritu et miráculis cláruit. Archiepíscopus tandem (licet
relúctans) Magdeburgénsis creátus, ecclesiásticam disciplínam, præsértim
cælibátum, constánter propugnávit. Rhemis in concílio Innocéntium secúndum
egrégie adjúvit, et Romam cum áliis epíscopis proféctus, schisma Petri Leónis
compréssit. Postrémo vir Dei, méritis et Spíritu Sancto plenus, Magdebúrgi
obdormívit in Dómino, anno salútis millésimo centésimo trigésimo quarto, die
sexta Júnii.
en: >-
Norbert, born in the year 1080 of parents of the highest rank, thoroughly
educated in his youth in worldly knowledge, and a member of the Imperial
court, turned his back upon the glory of the world, and chose rather to enlist
himself as a soldier of the Church. Being ordained Priest, he laid aside all
soft and showy raiment, clad himself in a coat of skins, and made the
preaching of the Word of God the one object of his life. He had the right to
rich revenues of the Church but these he renounced, and to an ample fortune
from his father; but this he gave to the poor. He ate only once a day, and that
in the evening, and then his meal was of the fare of Lent. His life was one of
singular hardness, and he was used even in the depth of winter to go out with
bare feet and ragged garments. Hence came that mighty power of his words and
deeds, whereby he was enabled to turn countless heretics to the true faith,
sinners to repentance, and enemies to peace and brotherly love.
Being one while at Laon, the Bishop besought him not to leave his diocese, and
he therefore made choice of a wilderness at the place called Prémontré,
whither he withdrew himself with thirteen disciples, and thus founded the
Order of the Praemonstratensian Canons, whereof he, by the will of God,
received the Rule, in a vision, from St. Augustine. When, however, the fame of
his holy life became every day more and more noised abroad, and great numbers
sought to become his disciples, and the Order had been approved by Honorius
II, and other Popes, many more monasteries were built by him, and the
Institute wonderfully extended.
Being called to Antwerpen, he there gave the death-blow to the shameful heresy
of Tanchelm. He was remarkable for the spirit of prophecy and for the gift of
miracles. He was created (albeit he would rather not have had it so)
Archbishop of Magdeburg, and as such he was a strong upholder of the discipline
of the Church, especially contending against the marriage of the clergy. At a
Council held at Reims he was a great help to Innocent II, and went with some
Other Bishops to Rome, where they stamped out the schism of Peter Leoni. It was
at last at Magdeburg that this man of God, full of good works and of the Holy
Ghost, fell asleep in the Lord, on the 6th day of June, in the year of
salvation 1134.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }