12 of May's 13 SanctiM-track saints authored (1 left unsourced, Common-only). Resolves an old loose end from the pre-1955 pass: St. Romanus Abbot does have a real SanctiM file after all, it's just Common-only with no proper Lectio content, which looked like a missing file until actually opened. Also the first isGospel:true case since January (Ss. Philip and James's Nocturn 3 has a full Gospel pericope, not a bare incipit).
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Athanasius, Bishop, Confessor,
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# Doctor (May 2) — SanctiM/05-02.txt inherits the whole day
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# (`@Sancti/05-02`) with no Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own
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# content is sourced from the Tridentine track exactly as for a
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# pre-1955 saint (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints,
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# vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
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# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-02.txt, English/Sancti/05-02.txt.
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#
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# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita,
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# no genuine source break.
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# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Matt 10:23-28) is a bare
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# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so — per the
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# pre-1955 pass's convention of not transcribing bare incipits — only
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# the homily portion is authored (not marked isGospel), combined with
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# Lectio8-9 as one continuous excerpt of St. Athanasius's own Defence
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# of his own flight. No responsory given for either reading.
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id: st-athanasius
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readings:
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- nocturn: 2
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isGospel: false
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text:
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la: >-
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Athanasius Alexandrinus, catholicæ religiónis propugnator acerrimus, ab Alexandro
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episcopo Alexandrino diaconus factus est, in cujus locum successit. Quem étiam antea
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secutus fuerat ad Nicænum Concílium; ubi cum Aríi impietátem repressísset, tantum ódium
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Arianórum suscépit, ut ex eo témpore ei insidias moliri numquam destiterint. Nam coacto
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ad Tyrum concílio magna ex parte Arianórum episcopórum, subornarunt muliérculam, quæ
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accusaret Athansium, quod hospítio acceptus sibi stuprum per vim intulísset. Introductus
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ígitur est Athanasius, et una cum eo Timótheus presbyter; qui simulans se esse
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Athanasium, Ego ne, inquit, mulier, apud te sum diversatus? ego te violávi? Cui illa
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petulanter: Tu mihi vim attulísti; idque jurejurando affirmans, judicum fidem
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obtestabátur, ut tantum flagitium vindicárent. Qua cógnita fraude, rejecta est mulíeris
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impudéntia.
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Arsénium quoque episcopum ab Athanasio interfectum Ariáni pervulgarunt; quem dum occulte
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détinent, manum mórtui déferunt in judícium, ab Athanasio ad usum mágicæ artis Arsenio
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amputatam criminantes. At Arsenius noctu aufúgiens, cum se in conspectu totius concilii
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statuísset, Athanasii inimicórum impudentíssimum scelus apéruit. Quod illi nihilóminus
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mágicis artibus Athanasii tribuéntes, vitæ ejus insidiari non desistebant. Quam ob rem in
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exsílium actus, in Gállia apud Tréviros exsulávit. Gravibus deinceps ac diuturnis sub
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Constantio imperatóre, Arianórum fautore, tempestátibus jactátus et incredibiles
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calamitátes perpéssus, magnam orbis terræ partem peragrávit; ac sæpe e sua ecclésia
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ejéctus, sæpe étiam in eamdem et Julii, Romani Pontificis, auctoritate, et Constántis
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imperatóris, Constantii fratris, patrocinio, decretis quoque concilii Sardicénsis ac
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Jerosolymitani, restitútus est, Ariánis interea illi semper infestis; quorum pertinacem
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iram, et summum vitæ discrimen fúgiens, in sicca cisterna quinque annis se ábdidit, ejus
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rei tantum conscio quodam Athanasii amico, qui eum clam sustentabat.
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Constantio mortuo, cum Julianus Apóstata, qui ei in imperio successit, éxsules
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episcopos ad suas ecclésias redire permisísset, Athanasius Alexandríam reversus, summo
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honóre exceptus est. Sed non multo post, iísdem Ariánis impelléntibus, a Juliáno
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exagitatus, rursus discedere cogitur. Cumque ab ejus satellítibus ad necem conquirerétur,
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qua fugiebat navícula conversa in contrariam flúminis partem, iis qui se insequebántur, ex
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industria occurrit; et quæréntibus quantum inde abesset Athanasius, respóndit eum non
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longe abesse: ítaque illos contrárium tenéntes cursum effugit, atque Alexandríam rédiens,
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ibidem usque ad Juliáni óbitum occultus permansit. Qui paulo post, Alexandríæ alia exorta
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tempestáte, quatuor menses in paterno sepúlcro delituit. Ac denique ex tot tantisque
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periculis divinitus ereptus, Alexandríæ mórtuus est in suo léctulo, sub Valénte: cujus
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vita et mors magnis nobilitáta est miraculis. Multa pie et ad illustrándum catholicam
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fidem præcláre scripsit, sexque et quadragínta annos in summa témporum varietáte
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Alexandrinam ecclésiam sanctíssime gubernávit.
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en: >-
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The great Athanasius, the greatest soldier that the Catholic Religion hath perhaps ever
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had, was an Alexandrian. He was ordained Deacon by Alexander, Bishop of that city, whom he
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afterwards succeeded. He had followed Alexander to the Council of Nicea, where he wrestled
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triumphantly against the blasphemy of Arius. For this reason he was honoured with so much
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of their hatred by the Arians, that their vindictiveness never forsook him from that time
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forward. They called together a Council at Tyre, composed for the most part of Arian
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Bishops, where they suborned a wretched woman to charge Athanasius with having raped her
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when she had received him as a guest into her house. Athanasius therefore came into the
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assembly, and with him a certain priest whose name was Timothy. This Timothy arose as
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though he were Athanasius, and asked her, saying: Woman, was it I that was thy guest? was
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it I that raped thee? She cried out indignantly: Yea, thou it was that didst rape me — the
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which she attested with an oath, and called on the honour of the judges to punish such
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iniquity. Upon this discovery of her perjury, they drave the shameless woman from their
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presence.
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The Arians also accused Athanasius of having murdered the Bishop Arsenius. This Arsenius
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they kept shut up, and brought into the court a dead man's hand, which they declared had
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been his, and had been cut off by Athanasius to use in sorcery. But Arsenius escaped in
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the night, and when he appeared before all the Council whole and sound, the brazen-faced
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crime of the enemies of Athanasius was exposed. This appearance nevertheless they
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attributed to Athanasius being a warlock, and persisted still in their attack on him. He
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was driven into exile, and banished to Treves in Gaul. Thenceforth, under authority of the
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Emperor Constantius, that abettor of Arians, he was hunted to and fro with unceasing
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persecutions. He suffered hardships which it is difficult to believe. He was sent
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wandering all about the Roman world. He was twice more thrust out of his See, and again
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restored through the authority of Pope Julius of Rome, and with the protection of the
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Emperor Constans, the brother of Constantius, by decrees of the Councils of Sardica and of
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Jerusalem. The vindictiveness of the Arians never let him alone. In his third exile so
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great was the danger of his life from the pursuit of their undying hatred, that he had to
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lie hid for five years in a dry cistern, unknown to all men, save one of his friends who
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brought him food.
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After the death of Constantius, Julian the Apostate, who succeeded him, allowed every
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sort of Bishop who had been banished to return to their own Churches. Athanasius therefore
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returned to Alexandria, and was received with profound reverence. But it was not long
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before the same Arians got Julian to hunt him down again, and again it behoved him to fly.
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A band of soldiers were sent in pursuit of him to kill him, and as he fled up the Nile,
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their boat pressed hard on his. Athanasius, before they were yet in sight, had his own
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boat turned round, and went down the stream to meet them. As the vessels passed one
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another the murderers called out to ask if they knew where Athanasius was, and the servant
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of God himself cried to them in answer, Ye are close to him! whereupon they redoubled
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their exertions to ascend the stream, and Athanasius went peacefully down to Alexandria,
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and found means of concealment till the death of Julian. Yet once again he had to fly from
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another persecution at Alexandria, and in this his fifth and last exile he hid himself for
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four months in his own father's sepulchre. From all these so many and so great dangers did
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God deliver him, and at last he died in his own bed at Alexandria, in the reign of Valens.
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He wrote much that is both godly and luminous in explaining the Catholic Faith, and
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governed the Church of Alexandria in great holiness, amid all changes of weather, for six
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and forty years.
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status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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- nocturn: 3
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isGospel: false
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source: "St. Athanasius, Bishop, Defence of his own Flight (on Matt 10:23-28)"
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text:
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la: >-
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In lege præcéptum erat ut constitueréntur civitátes refugiórum, ut, qui quomodocúmque ad
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necem quæreréntur, servari possent. In consummatióne porro sæculórum cum advenísset
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illud ipsum Verbum Patris, quod Móysi antea locútum fuerat, rursus hoc præcéptum dedit,
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Cum vos, inquiens, persecúti fúerint in civitáte ista, fugite in aliam. Pauloque post
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súbjicit: Cum vidéritis illam abominatiónem desolatiónis, quæ dicta est per Danielem
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prophétam, consistentem in loco sancto (qui legit, intélligat), tunc qui in Judǽa sunt,
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fúgiant ad montes; et qui in tecto est, ne descendat tollere aliquid de domo sua; et qui
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in agro est, non revertátur tollere túnicam suam.
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Hæc cum scirent Sancti, ejusmodi tenuérunt suæ conversatiónis institútum. Quæ enim nunc
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præcepit Dóminus, éadem quoque ante suum in carne advéntum locútus est in Sanctis; et hoc
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institutum hómines ad perfectiónem ducit. Nam quod Deus jusserit, id omnino faciéndum est.
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Ideoque et ipsum Verbum propter nos homo factum, non indignum putávit, cum quærerétur,
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quemádmodum et nos, abscóndere se; et cum persecutiónem paterétur, fugere, et insidias
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declináre: cum autem a se definitum tempus ipse adduxísset, in quo corporáliter pro
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ómnibus pati volebat, ultro seípsum trádidit insidiántibus.
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At vero sancti hómines cum hanc quoque formam a Salvatore didicissent, (ab ipso enim et
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antea et semper omnes docebántur) advérsus persecutores ut legitime certarent, fugiébant,
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et ab illis quæsíti se abscóndebant. Cum enim præstitúti sibi a divina providéntia
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témporis finem ignorarent, nolébant insidiántibus se témere trádere: sed contra, cum
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scirent quod scriptum est, in mánibus Dei esse hóminum sortes, et Dóminum mortificáre et
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vivificáre; potius in finem usque perseverábant, circumeuntes, ut ait Apóstolus, in
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melótis et pellibus caprínis, egéntes, angustiati, in solitudínibus errántes, et in
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speluncis et cavernis terræ laténtes, quoad vel definitum mortis tempus veníret, vel qui
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tempus ipsum definíerat, Deus cum eis loquerétur, et insidiántes cohibéret, aut certe
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persecutóribus eos traderet, utcúmque illi placuísset.
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en: >-
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It is written in the Law: Ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that
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in these cities they which were pursued to put them to death might enter and be safe. And
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in the latter days when He was come, even that very Word of the Father, Which had spoken
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aforetime unto Moses, He gave again the same commandment: When they persecute you in this
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city, flee ye into another. And, a while afterward, He said: When ye shall see the
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abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the Prophet, stand in the Holy Place, whoso
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readeth, let him understand, then let them which be in Judaea flee unto the mountains; let
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him which is on the house-top not come down to take anything out of his house; neither let
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him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
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The Saints, therefore, knowing these words of the Lord, have obeyed them in their lives.
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What the Lord hath now commanded by His Own Mouth He commanded through His Saints before
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that He Himself was come in the flesh, and to obey this commandment worketh in a man
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perfection, since whatever God commandeth is a thing which it behoveth man to do. For this
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cause, that very Word of God Which was made flesh for our sake thought it meet when they
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sought Him, even as at this present time they are seeking us, to hide Himself, and, when
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they persecuted Him, to fly and escape from their laying in wait for Him; although when
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that time came which He had Himself decreed, and wherein He willed, as touching the Body,
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to suffer for us all, He willingly gave Himself up to His enemies.
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Holy men of God, therefore, have learnt to take example from their Saviour, and know how
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that it is lawful to baffle their persecutors by flying from them, and by lying hid when
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they seek them. For since they know not the day nor the hour wherein an all-seeing God
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hath ordained their end, they do not daringly give themselves into the power of such as
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hate them, but rather, knowing it to be written, My times are in Thy hand, and that the
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Lord killeth and maketh alive, they endure unto the end, they wander about, as saith the
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Apostle, in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, they wander in deserts,
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and hide in dens and caves of the earth, until either their appointed time come, or until
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more plainly God, the real Appointer of times, speaketh unto them, and chaineth up the
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persecutors, or manifestly giveth them over into the hands of the same, as may be His Own
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good pleasure.
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status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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