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 reading for St. Robert of Molesme, Abbot, founder of
# Cîteaux (Apr 29) — a genuine Monastic-only saint: no `Sancti/04-29*.txt`
# names him at all (that plain file is St. Peter Martyr — see
# `st-peter-martyr.yml`'s own note on the date swap between this app's
# calendar and the general Tridentine one); his own proper vita exists
# only at web/www/horas/Latin/SanctiM/04-29oM.txt. Lectio1-4 (Nocturn
# 1) fall back to Common of a Confessor; Lectio5-8 are his own vita
# (the founding of Cîteaux), one continuous account, combined into a
# single reading, no genuine source break.
# No English/SanctiM/04-29oM.txt exists in the reference engine at
# all, so `en` is this project's own translation, marked `draft` per
# vu-prefer-text-over-missing. Two evident OCR slips in the Latin
# source ("matri su@" for "matri suæ"; "ad quibusdam Eremitis" for "a
# quibusdam Eremitis") silently corrected in transcription. No
# responsory given in the source.
id: st-robert
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Robertus in Campania, nobilibus ortus parentibus, cum matri suæ de illo prægnanti, Dei
Mater apparuisset, et digitum ejus annulo subarrasset dicens, velle, ut suus esset
sponsus filius, quem in utero portabat: quod fuit causa, ut omnia sua Monasteria ipsius
Dei Matris nomini consecrarentur: annum agens undecimum apud sanctum Petrum de Cella
suscepit habitum regularem. Ubi jejuniis, et orationibus vacans nocte, et die gratum Deo
exhibebat obsequium, carnem spiritui, spiritum Creatori subjiciens. Ipso sic disponente,
a Monachis illius Monasterii electus in Priorem, a Tornodorensibus in Abbatem cooptatur.
Postea a quibusdam Eremitis fuit rogatus, ut idem munus super eis admitteret; quorum
votis satisfecisset, nisi Tornodorenses Monachi reclamassent. Dimittens nuntios spem
illis certam dedit se quam cito facultas tribueretur ei a Domino, ad eos profecturum.
Assumptis posteà duobus sociis, iit ad nemus, cujus nomen Molismus erat, ubi propriis
manibus laborantes, ex ramis arborum domicilia, et oratorium construxerunt, in eoque
Domino salutares hostias, et sacrificium contriti cordis offerebant. Sed cum maxime
desideraret ubicumque servi Dei reperiebantur, ipse quoque reperiri, venit ad locum
Hauz, et devote ab istis Monachis susceptus, paulo post Abbatem illum elegerunt.
De suo tamen secessu Molismenses contristati Summum Pontificem adjerunt; ejusque
auctoritate freti virum Dei revocavere Molismum, in quo aliqui, ut Albericus, et
Stephanus, et alii duo, cum Eremiticam vitam appeterent, ad locum, Vivicus dictum
profecti sunt; sed ab illo pulsi, ad sylvam Cistertium vocatam, devenerunt, ubi ædificato
Oratorio in honorem Beatæ Mariæ, perseveraverunt. Audiens autem beatus Robertus sanctam
ipsorum conversationem, assumptis secum vigintiduobus monachis perrexit ad eos, ut sancti
eorum propositi esset particeps, et adjutor, a quibuscum summa devotione susceptus,
eisdem aliquandiu paterna solicitudine præfuit.
Tanto pastore destitui ægre ferentes Monachi Molismi, Summum Pontificem adjerunt, ut
beatum Robertum Molismum regredi cogeret. Annuens eis pontifex Cabilonensi Episcopo
scripsit, quatenus alio Abbate Cisterciensibus ordinato, Robertum cogeret reverti
Molismum. Dispositis ergo quæ ad observantiam, secundum regulam sancti Benedicti
pertinebant, Abbatem eis loco sui præfecit Albericum, et eo mortuo Stephanum subrogavit.
Sicque novellæ illius plantationis institutor existens beatus Robertus, cum utriusque
Monasterii, Molismensis scilicet, et Cisterciensis, regimen haberet, Molismum secundo
rediit. Tandem cum jam suum obitum appeteret, ejus horam illi Dominus revelavit, et anno
ætatis suæ nonagesimotertio, clarus miraculis spiritum transmisit ad cælos, tertio
Kalendas Maii, anno Domini millesimo nonagesimo octavo.
en: >-
Robert was born in Champagne of noble parents; when his mother was with child of him, the
Mother of God appeared to her, and betrothed her finger with a ring, saying that she
willed the son she was carrying in her womb to be her own spouse — for which cause all his
monasteries were consecrated to the name of that same Mother of God. At the age of eleven
he took the religious habit at the monastery of Saint-Pierre-de-Cella. There, devoting
himself to fasting and prayer by night and by day, he rendered service pleasing to God,
subjecting the flesh to the spirit, and the spirit to the Creator. By God's own disposing
he was chosen Prior by the monks of that monastery, and afterwards co-opted Abbot by
those of Tonnerre.
Afterwards he was asked by certain hermits to take up the same office over them; whose
wishes he would have granted, had not the monks of Tonnerre protested. Sending back their
messengers, he gave them sure hope that he would come to them as soon as the Lord should
grant him the means. Later, taking two companions with him, he went to the forest called
Molesme, where, labouring with their own hands, they built dwellings and an oratory out
of the branches of trees, and there offered to the Lord saving sacrifices and the
sacrifice of a contrite heart. But as he greatly desired that, wherever servants of God
were to be found, he himself might also be found among them, he came to the place called
Aux, and being devoutly received by those monks, was shortly afterwards chosen their
Abbot.
The monks of Molesme, grieved at his withdrawal, went to the Supreme Pontiff; and,
relying on his authority, recalled the man of God to Molesme. Meanwhile certain of the
brethren — Alberic, Stephen, and two others — desiring the eremitical life, set out for
the place called Vivicus; but being driven from there, they came to the forest called
Cîteaux, where, having built an Oratory in honour of the Blessed Mary, they persevered.
When blessed Robert heard of their holy manner of life, he took with him twenty-two monks
and went to join them, that he might share in and assist their holy purpose; and, being
received by them with the greatest devotion, he governed them for a time with fatherly
solicitude.
The monks of Molesme, taking it ill to be deprived of so great a shepherd, went again to
the Supreme Pontiff, that he might compel blessed Robert to return to Molesme. The
Pontiff, granting their request, wrote to the Bishop of Châlons that, another Abbot
having been ordained for the Cistercians, he should compel Robert to return to Molesme.
Having therefore settled what pertained to the observance according to the Rule of St.
Benedict, he set Alberic over them in his own place as Abbot, and upon his death Stephen
succeeded him. And so blessed Robert, having been the founder of that new planting, while
holding the government of both monasteries — that of Molesme, and that of Cîteaux —
returned a second time to Molesme. At length, when his death drew near, the Lord revealed
to him the hour of it, and in the ninety-third year of his age, renowned for miracles, he
sent forth his spirit to heaven, on the third day before the Kalends of May, in the year
of the Lord one thousand ninety-eight.
status: { la: verified, en: draft }