Record the Confessor Matins psalmody categories in TODO.md
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Documents the Francis of Paola / Basil the Great live-verification,
the identical-apart-from-versicles finding, the Duplex+ saints checked
for proper-antiphon eligibility, and the M1617-kalendar wrinkle found
along the way (a SanctiM file existing doesn't mean the saint is
actually on the Monastic Tridentinum 1617 calendar).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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`src/data/scripture/` — long-term project, explicitly deferred; Matins scripture
citations resolve to `missing` text until it lands.
- Matins psalmody overrides for a Duplex+ weekday feast (see "Matins psalmody overrides"
below): mechanism refactored to category-keyed (`categories/*.yml` + `saints/*.yml`), two
below): mechanism refactored to category-keyed (`categories/*.yml` + `saints/*.yml`), four
categories authored (Common of a Martyr via St. Lawrence, Common of an Apostle via St.
Andrew). Every other Common category (~73 saints across Confessor, Virgin, Doctor, etc.)
still falls back to the plain ferial weekday table, redistributed into 3 nocturns, until
its own category's real psalmody is authored.
Andrew, Common of a Confessor via St. Francis of Paola, Common of a Confessor-Bishop via
St. Basil the Great). Every other Common category (Virgin, Doctor, Common of Several
Martyrs, etc. — the largest remaining population) still falls back to the plain ferial
weekday table, redistributed into 3 nocturns, until its own category's real psalmody is
authored.
- The four "Commemoratio Octavæ" Ant+V/R+collect blocks (Christmas Octave's own
Nativity/Stephen/John/Holy-Innocents commemorations, e.g. on Dec 30) are now done —
see "Octave content" below. St. Frances of Rome's/
@@ -1866,6 +1868,55 @@ Common of a Confessor — no category authored yet for that Common — 2026-01-3
clean Saturday with no Sunday collision). `npm test` (375 tests), `npm run build`, and
`tsc --noEmit` all pass.
### Matins psalmody overrides — Confessor categories authored, both tiers identical apart from versicles (2026-08)
Two more Common categories authored, following the same live-verify-a-saint-with-no-proper-
antiphon method as Martyr/Apostle:
- **`common-of-a-confessor`** (Confessor Not a Bishop, "vide C5"): from St. Francis of Paola
(2030-04-02, confirmed clean — safely outside Holy Week/Easter octave that year, per his own
saint-file comment). Nocturn 1 = Ps 1,2,4,5,8,10; Nocturn 2 = Ps 14,20,23,95,96,97; Nocturn 3
= one antiphon over 3 OT canticles (Sirach 14/15, Jeremiah 17, Sirach 31 — same refs already
authored for `common-of-a-martyr`, reused as-is).
- **`common-of-a-confessor-bishop`** ("vide C4"): from St. Basil the Great (2035-06-14, already
live-verified clean per his own saint-file's note that his rendered Matins is byte-identical
to this Common despite his own `[Rule]` saying "vide C4a"/Doctor). Live-verified this Common's
psalm numbers and antiphon text are **word-for-word identical** to `common-of-a-confessor` in
all three nocturns — the only real difference is the three nocturn-closing versicles, which
swap plain-confessor imagery for priestly/episcopal imagery (e.g. Nocturn 3's "Tu es sacérdos
in ætérnum * secúndum órdinem Melchísedech"). Not modeled as an `aliases` redirect (unlike
Common-of-a-Martyr-Bishop → Common-of-a-Martyr, a genuine zero-difference redirect) because the
versicles really do differ and the mechanism has no partial-override/diff support — kept as
its own full duplicate file instead.
Checked every Duplex+ saint on the calendar in both Common categories (St. Aloysius Gonzaga,
St. Anthony of Padua, St. Paschal Baylon, St. John Cantius, St. Bernardine of Siena, St. Joseph
Calasanctius, St. Raymond Nonnatus, St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria for `common-of-a-confessor`; St.
Norbert, St. Andrew Corsini for `common-of-a-confessor-bishop`) — none has a proper antiphon of
his own, so (same as Common-of-a-Martyr-Bishop before it) neither category currently has a
saint eligible for its own `saints/` entry; a real, not accidental, gap, matching the existing
policy of only authoring `saints/*.yml` where a genuine proper deviation exists.
Two live saints, St. Aloysius Gonzaga (June 21) and St. Norbert (June 6), turned out **not** to
be on the Monastic Tridentinum 1617 calendar at all despite having a `SanctiM/MM-DD.txt` file —
confirmed via `Tabulae/Kalendaria/M1617.txt` (no entry) and `Tabulae/Kalendaria/M1930.txt` (only
Norbert, added there) — both were canonized well after 1617 (Aloysius 1726, though pre-1617 in
Norbert's case his 1582 canonization still postdates the M1617 calendar's fixed content). Their
`SanctiM` stub files are shared infrastructure for later Monastic versions (1930/1963), not
proof the saint was ever actually prayed under M1617 itself — a live `Pofficium.pl` query on
their own date just falls through to a plain feria. Not a blocker for authoring the Common
category files themselves (the Common content is shared infrastructure regardless of which
Monastic version's kalendar wires a given saint into it), but worth remembering next time a
"vide C" saint's own date doesn't reproduce under `version=Monastic Tridentinum 1617` — check
`Tabulae/Kalendaria/M1617.txt` before assuming the date/year picked was wrong.
`tests/hours/matins.test.ts` gained two new Common-tier proofs (Francis of Paola,
`common-of-a-confessor`; Basil the Great, `common-of-a-confessor-bishop` — same psalm numbers as
the other, checked directly). The old ferial-fallback proof (St. John Bosco, `common-of-a-
confessor`, now superseded) was swapped for Ss. Fabian and Sebastian (`common-of-several-
martyrs`, still unauthored, 2029-01-20, already live-verified clean). `npm test` (377 tests),
`tsc --noEmit` pass.
### Calendar precedence: a tie against an octave's own elevated closing day now favors the octave (2026-08)
Real bug found and fixed, same session as the Matins psalmody fix above, discovered while