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. Leo I ("the Great"), Pope, Confessor,
# Doctor (Apr 11) — SanctiM/04-11.txt inherits the whole day
# (`@Sancti/04-11`) with no Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own
# vita is sourced from the Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955
# saint (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/04-11.txt, English/Sancti/04-11.txt.
# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no genuine
# source break. No responsory given in the source.
id: st-leo-i
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Leo primus, Etruscus, eo tempore præfuit Ecclesiæ, cum rex Hunnorum Attila, cognomento
Flagellum Dei, in Italiam invadens, Aquilejam triennii obsidione captam diripuit et
incendit. Unde cum Romam ardenti furore raperetur, jamque copias, ubi Mincius in Padum
influit, trajicere pararet, occurrit ei Leo, malorum Italiæ impendentium misericordia
permotus: cujus divina eloquentia persuasum est Attilæ, ut regrederetur. Qui interrogatus
a suis, quid esset quod præter consuetudinem tam humiliter Romani Pontificis imperata
faceret; respondit, se astantem quemdam alium, illo loquente, sacerdotali habitu veritum
esse, sibi stricto gladio minitantem mortem, nisi Leoni obtemperaret. Quare in Pannoniam
reversus est.
Leo autem Romæ singulari omnium lætitia exceptus, paulo post invadenti Urbem Genserico,
eadem eloquentiæ vi et sanctitatis opinione persuasit, ut ab incendio, ignominiis, ac
cædibus abstineret. Sed cum Ecclesiam a multis hæresibus oppugnari, maximeque a
Nestorianis et Eutychianis exagitari videret; ad eam purgandam, et in fide catholica
confirmandam, concilium Chalcedonense indixit, ubi sexcentis triginta coactis episcopis,
Eutyches et Dioscorus, et iterum Nestorius condemnati sunt: ejusdemque concilii decreta
sua auctoritate confirmavit.
His actis, sanctus Pontifex se ad reficiendas et ædificandas ecclesias convertit. Cujus
suasu Demetria, pia femina, sancti Stephani ecclesiam construxit in suo fundo via
Latina, tertio ab Urbe milliario: ipse via Appia sub nomine sancti Cornelii alteram
condidit. Multas præterea et sacras ædes, et sacra earum vasa restituit. In tribus
basilicis, Petri, Pauli, et Constantiniana, cameras exstruxit: ædificavit monasterium
vicinum basilicæ sancti Petri: sepulcris Apostolorum custodes adhibuit, quos cubicularios
appellavit. Statuit, ut in actione mysterii diceretur: Sanctum sacrificium, immaculatam
hostiam. Sanxit, ne monacha benedictum capitis velamen reciperet, nisi quadraginta
annorum virginitatem probasset. His et aliis præclare gestis, cum multa sancte et
luculenter scripsisset, quarto Idus Novembris obdormivit in Domino. Sedit in pontificatu
annos viginti unum, mensem unum, dies tredecim.
en: >-
Leo was an Etruscan who ruled the Church at the time when Attila, king of the Huns, whose
surname is the Scourge of God, invaded Italy, and after a siege of three years, took,
sacked, and burnt Aquileia. Thence he was hurrying to Rome, on fire with anger, and his
troops were already preparing to cross the Po, at the place where that river is joined by
the Mincio, when he was met by Leo, moved with compassion at the thought of the ruin which
hung over Italy. By his God-given eloquence, Attila was persuaded to turn back, and when he
was afterwards asked by his servants why, contrary to his custom, he had so meekly yielded
to the entreaties of the Bishop of Rome, he answered that he had been alarmed by a figure
dressed like a Priest, which had appeared at the side of Leo while he was speaking, holding
a drawn sword, and had made as though to kill the king unless he consented. And so he
returned into Pannonia.
Leo went back to Rome, where he was received with rejoicing by all men. A while later,
Genseric entered the city, but Leo, by the power of his eloquence and the authority of his
holy life, persuaded him to abstain from fire, insult, and slaughter. When Leo beheld how
the Church was assailed by many heresies, and in dire trouble through the Nestorians and
Eutychians, to purify the same and establish her in the Catholic Faith, he called the
Council of Chalcedon, where, in an assembly of six hundred and thirty Bishops, Nestorius
was again condemned, along with Eutyches and Dioscorus; the decrees of which Council were
confirmed by the authority of Leo.
After these matters, this holy Pope set himself to the restoration and building of
Churches. By his advice that godly woman Demetria built the Church of St. Stephen upon
her farm on the Latin Road, at the third milestone from the city. He himself built another
Church upon the Appian Way, which Church is called that of St. Cornelius. He restored
likewise many other Churches, and the holy vessels used therein. He built Clergy-houses at
the three Basilicas of Peter, Paul, and Constantine. He built a monastery hard by the
Basilica of St. Peter. He appointed for the graves of the Apostles certain keepers, whom
he called the Chamberlains of the said Apostles. He ordained that in the action of the
Mystery should be uttered the words An holy sacrifice, an offering without spot. He
ordered that no nun should have the covering of her head blessed until she had made trial
of her virginity for forty years. After doing all these and other illustrious works, and
after he had written much that is both godly and easy to be understood, he fell asleep in
the Lord on the eleventh day of April. He held the Papal See for twenty years, one month,
and thirteen days.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }