Add April Matins readings for SanctiM-track saints
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All 9 of April's SanctiM-track saints authored. Found a new wrinkle:
St. Catherine of Siena and St. Peter Martyr sit on swapped dates
between this app's calendar and the general Tridentine one (Apr 29/30
each way), not just an off-by-a-few-days shift like earlier cases.
Also hit a reference-engine data bug on St. George (English prose
filed under a Latin heading) and another genuinely Monastic-only saint
(St. Robert of Molesme) needing an original translation.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Catherine of Siena, Virgin (Apr 29
# on this app's own calendar, sharing the date with St. Robert — see
# st-robert.yml) — an off-date sourcing case like St. Paul the Hermit
# in the pre-1955 pass (memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints): the general
# Tridentine calendar keeps Catherine on Apr 30 instead (this app's own
# Apr 30 slot going to St. Peter Martyr — see st-peter-martyr.yml's own
# note on this same date swap). `SanctiM/04-30.txt` inherits the whole
# day (`@Sancti/04-30`) with no Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's
# own vita is sourced from the Tridentine track there, exactly as for a
# pre-1955 saint (see memory vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/04-30.txt, English/Sancti/04-30.txt.
# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no genuine
# source break. No responsory given in the source.
id: st-catherine-of-siena
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Catharina, virgo Senensis piis orta parentibus, beati Dominici habitum, quem sorores de
Pœnitentia gestant, impetravit. Summa ejus fuit abstinentia, et admirabilis vitæ
austeritas. Inventa est aliquando a die Cinerum usque ad Ascensionem Domini jejunium
perduxisse, sola Eucharistiæ communione contenta. Luctabatur quam frequentissime cum
dæmonibus, multisque illorum molestiis vexabatur, æstuabat febribus, nec aliorum morborum
cruciatu carebat. Magnum et sanctum erat Catharinæ nomen, et undique ad eam ægroti et
malignis vexati spiritibus deducebantur. Languoribus et febribus in Christi nomine
imperabat, et dæmones cogebat ab obsessis abire corporibus.
Cum Pisis immoraretur die Dominico, refecta cibo cælesti, et in extasim rapta, vidit
Dominum crucifixum magno cum lumine advenientem, et ex ejus vulnerum cicatricibus quinque
radios ad quinque loca sui corporis descendentes; ideoque mysterium advertens, Dominum
precata, ne cicatrices apparerent; continuo radii colorem sanguineum mutaverunt in
splendidum, et in formam puræ lucis pervenerunt ad manus, pedes, et cor ejus: ac tantus
erat dolor, quem sensibiliter patiebatur, ut nisi Deus minuisset, brevi se crederet
morituram. Hanc ítaque gratiam amantissimus Dominus nova gratia cumulavit, ut sentiret
dolorem illapsa vi vulnerum et cruenta signa non apparerent. Quod ita contigisse cum Dei
famula confessario suo Raymundo retulisset, ut oculis étiam repræsentaretur, radios in
imaginibus beatæ Catharinæ ad dicta quinque loca pertingentes, pia fidelium cura pictis
coloribus expressit.
Doctrina ejus infusa, non acquisita fuit; sacrarum litterarum professoribus difficillimas
de divinitate quæstiones proponentibus respondit; nemo ad eam accessit, qui non melior
abierit: multa exstinxit odia, et mortales sedavit inimicitias. Pro pace Florentinorum,
qui cum Ecclesia dissidebant, et interdicto ecclesiastico suppositi erant, Avenionem ad
Gregorium undecimum Pontificem maximum profecta est. Cui étiam votum ejus de petenda
Urbe soli Deo notum, sese divinitus cognovisse monstravit: deliberavitque Pontifex, ea
étiam suadente, ad sedem suam Romanam personaliter accedere: quod et fecit. Eidem
Gregorio et Urbano sexto ejus successori acceptissima fuit, adeo ut legationibus eorum
fungeretur. Denique post innumera virtutum insignia, dono prophetiæ, et pluribus clara
miraculis, anno ætatis suæ tertio circiter et trigesimo, migravit ad Sponsum. Quam Pius
secundus Pontifex maximus sanctarum Virginum numero adscripsit.
en: >-
This Katharine was a maiden of Siena, and was born of godly parents. She took the habit
of the Third Order of St. Dominic. Her fasts were most severe, and the austerity of her
life wonderful. It was discovered that on some occasions she took no food at all from Ash
Wednesday till Ascension Day, receiving all needful strength by taking the Holy Communion.
She was engaged oftentimes in a wrestling with devils, and was sorely tried by them with
diverse assaults: she was consumed by fevers, and suffered likewise from other diseases.
Great and holy was the name of Katharine, and sick folk, and such as were vexed with evil
spirits, were brought to her from all quarters. Through the Name of Christ, she had
command over sickness and fever, and forced the foul spirits to leave the bodies of the
tormented.
While she dwelt at Pisa, on a certain Lord's Day, after she had received the Living Bread
Which came down from heaven, she was in the spirit; and saw the Lord nailed to the Cross
advancing towards her. There was a great light round about Him, and five rays of light
streaming from the five marks of the Wounds in His Feet, and Hands, and Side, which smote
her upon the five corresponding places in her body. When Katharine perceived this vision,
she besought the Lord that no marks might become manifest upon her flesh, and straightway
the five beams of light changed from the colour of blood into that of gold, and touched in
the form of pure light her feet, and hands, and side. At this moment the agony which she
felt was so piercing, that she believed that if God had not lessened it, she would have
died. Thus the Lord in His great love for her, gave her this great grace, in a new and
twofold manner, namely, that she felt all the pain of the wounds, but without there being
any bloody marks to meet the gaze of men. This was the account given by the handmaiden of
God to her Confessor, Raymund, and it is for this reason that when the godly wishes of the
faithful lead them to make pictures of the blessed Katharine, they paint her with golden
rays of light proceeding from those five places in her body which correspond to the five
places wherein our Lord was wounded by the nails and spear.
The learning which Katharine had was not acquired but inspired. She answered Professors
of Divinity upon the very hardest questions concerning God. No one was ever in her company
without going away better. She healed many hatreds, and quieted the most deadly feuds. To
make peace for the Florentines, who had quarrelled with the Church, and were under an
Ecclesiastical Interdict, she travelled to Avignon to see the Chief Pontiff Gregory XI. To
him she showed that she had had revealed to her from heaven his secret purpose of going
back to Rome, which had been known only to God and himself. It was at her persuasion, as
well as by his own judgment, that the Pope did in the end return to his own See. She was
much respected by this Gregory, as well as by his successor Urban VI, who even employed
her in their embassies. The Bridegroom took her home when she was about thirty-three years
old, after she had given almost countless proofs of extraordinary Christian graces, and
manifestly displayed the gifts of Prophecy and miracles. Pope Pius II enrolled her among
the Virgin Saints.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }