Add June Matins readings for SanctiM-track saints
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12 of June's 13 SanctiM-track saints authored, including the major
Duplex I class feast of Ss. Peter and Paul. One left unsourced (the
Vigil of St. John the Baptist has only a Nocturn 1 scripture reading
in the source, nothing proper to author for Nocturn 2/3). Found a new
wrinkle: St. William Abbot has real vita content in both tracks,
essentially the same story independently transcribed — sourced from
the Tridentine file since only it has an English translation.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentia,
# Martyrs (Jun 15) — SanctiM/06-15M.txt bases `@Sancti/06-15` (the
# whole day, with no Nocturn 2/3 override) but narrows the Officium to
# St. Vitus alone, the same "Monastic office narrows a joint feast"
# pattern already seen for `ss-vincent-and-anastasius.yml`,
# `ss-cletus-and-marcellinus.yml`, `ss-alexander-eventius-theodulus-and-juvenal.yml`,
# and `ss-marcellinus-peter-and-erasmus.yml` — the full three-martyr
# text is used here per vu-prefer-text-over-missing (see memory
# vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-15.txt, English/Sancti/06-15.txt.
# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no
# responsory given in the source.
id: ss-vitus-modestus-and-crescentia
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Vitus admodum puer inscio patre baptizatus est: quod cum ille rescivisset, nihil
prætermisit, quo filium a christiana religione removeret. Qua in voluntate permanentem,
Valeriano judici verberibus castigandum tradidit. Sed nihilominus in sententia
persistens, patri redditus est. Sed dum eum pater gravius punire cogitat, Vitus Angeli
monitu, comitibus Modesto et Crescentia, ejus educatoribus, migrat in alienas terras:
ibique eam sanctitatis laudem adeptus est, ut ejus fama ad Diocletianum perlata, ipsum
imperator accerseret, ut filium suum a dæmone vexatum liberaret: Quo liberato, cum ei
amplissimis præmiis ingratus imperator, ut deos coleret, persuadere non potuisset, una
cum Modesto et Crescentia vinculis constrictum mittit in carcerem. Quos ubi
constantiores esse comperit, demitti jubet in ingens vas liquato plumbo, ferventi resina
ac pice plenum: in quo cum trium Hebræorum puerorum more divinos hymnos canerent, inde
erepti leoni objiciuntur: qui prostérnens se, eorum pedes lambebat. Quare inflammatus
ira imperator, quod multitudinem videbat miraculo commoveri, eos in catasta sterni jubet
et ita cædi eorum membra, atque ossa divelli. Quo tempore tonitrua, fulgura, magnique
terræmotus fuere, quibus templa deorum corruerunt, et multi oppressi sunt. Eorum
reliquias Florentia nobilis femina, unguentis conditas, honorifice sepelivit.
en: >-
This Vitus was a child who was baptized without his father's knowledge. When his father
had found it out, he used his best endeavours to dissuade his son from the Christian
religion, but as he found him persistent in it, he handed him over to Valerian the judge
to be whipped. But as he still remained as unshaken as before, he was given back to his
father. But while his father was turning over in his mind to what severe discipline to
subject him, Vitus, being warned by an Angel, fled out of the country, in company with his
foster-parents Modestus and Crescentia. In his new home he gained great praise for
holiness, so that the fame of it came to Diocletian, which Emperor sent for him to
deliver his own child which was vexed with a devil. Him Vitus delivered, but when the
Emperor found that with all his great gifts he could not bring him to worship the gods, he
had the ingratitude to cast him and Modestus and Crescentia into prison, binding them in
fetters. But when they were found in their prison more faithful than ever to their
confession, the Emperor commanded them to be thrown into a great vessel full of melted
lead, resin, and pitch. Therein these three, like the three Holy Children in the burning
fiery furnace, sang praise to God, and upon that they were haled forth and cast to a lion,
but he lay down before them, and licked their feet. Then the Emperor, being filled with
fury, more especially because he saw that the multitude that looked on were stirred up at
the miracle, commanded Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentia to be stretched upon a block and
their limbs crushed, and their bones rent one from the other. While as they were dying
there came great thunderings, and lightnings, and earthquakes, so that temples of the
gods fell down, and many men were killed. As for that which remained of the Martyrs, the
noble lady Florence took it, and embalmed it with spices, and honourably buried it.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }