Add September Matins readings for pre-1955 sanctoral saints

St. Giles, St. Nicholas of Tolentino, Ss. Cornelius and Cyprian, Ss.
Euphemia/Lucy/Geminian, St. Januarius, the Vigil of St. Matthew, and
Ss. Cyprian and Justina.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-cornelius-and-cyprian.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 readings for Ss. Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian,
+# Bishop, Martyrs (Sep 16) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/09-16*.txt
+# at all). web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-16.txt,
+# English/Sancti/09-16.txt. Lectio4-5 (Cornelius's own vita) combined
+# into one reading, no internal break. Lectio6 (Cyprian's vita, drawn
+# from St. Jerome's De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, ch. 67) is a
+# genuinely distinct source/saint, kept separate. No responsory given.
+id: ss-cornelius-and-cyprian
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Cornélius Romanus, Gallo et Volusiáno imperatóribus pontificátum gerens, cum Lucina, femina
+        sanctíssima, córpora Apostolórum Petri et Pauli e catacumbis in opportuniórem locum
+        tránstulit; ac Pauli corpus Lucina in suo prædio via Ostiénsi, prope eum locum, ubi fuerat
+        gládio percússus, collocávit; Cornélius Principis Apostolórum corpus non longe inde, ubi
+        crucifixus fuerat, repósuit. Quod cum ad imperatóres delátum esset, et Pontifice auctore
+        multos fíeri Christiános, mittitur is in exsílium ad Centumcellas; ubi eum sanctus Cyprianus,
+        epíscopus Carthaginiénsis, per litteras est consolatus.
+
+
+        Hoc autem christianæ caritátis offícium cum frequens alter alteri persólveret, deteriórem in
+        partem id accipiéntes imperatóres, accersítum Romam Cornelium tamquam de majestáte reum
+        plumbátis cædi, raptumque ad Martis simulacrum, ei sacrificáre jubent. Quam impietátem cum
+        ille detestarétur, ei caput abscissum est décimo octavo Kalendas Octobris. Cujus corpus
+        beáta Lucina, clericis adjutóribus, humávit in arenaria prædii sui prope cœmetérium Callísti.
+        Vixit in pontificatu annos circiter duos.
+      en: >-
+        Cornelius was a Roman who held the Papacy during the reign of the Emperors Gallus and
+        Volusian. He, and that most holy Lady Lucina, took the bodies of the Apostles Peter and Paul
+        out of the Catacombs and put them in more convenient places. Lucina laid the body of Paul in
+        a farm of her own upon the road to Ostia, hard by the place where he had received the
+        sword-stroke. Cornelius placed that of the Prince of the Apostles hard by where he had been
+        crucified. When this was told to the Emperors, and likewise that Cornelius was the means of
+        making many Christians, he was banished to Civitavecchia, where Cyprian, the holy Bishop of
+        Carthage, comforted him by letters.
+
+
+        They continued thus to write often one to the other, till the Emperors took in bad part these
+        exchanges of Christian love, and sent for Cornelius to Rome. There they commanded him to be
+        lashed with scourges loaded with lead as though he were a traitor, and then to be carried to
+        offer sacrifice before the image of Mars. He firmly refused to commit this great wickedness,
+        and was forthwith beheaded, upon the 14th day of September. The blessed Lucina, with the help
+        of the clergy, buried his body in the sand-pit on her own farm, near the Cemetery of
+        Callistus. He lived as Pope about two years.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Jerome, Priest, De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, ch. 67"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Cyprianus, Afer, primum gloriose rhetoricam docuit. Exinde, suadénte presbytero Cæcílio, a
+        quo et cognoméntum sortitus est, christianus factus, omnem substantiam suam paupéribus
+        erogávit. Ac post non multum témporis, eléctus in presbyterum, étiam epíscopus
+        Carthaginiénsis constitútus est. Hujus ingenii superfluum est indicem téxere, cum sole
+        clarióra sint ejus opera. Passus est sub Valeriáno et Gallieno princípibus, persecutióne
+        octava, eodem die quo Romæ Cornélius, sed non eodem anno.
+      en: >-
+        Cyprian was an African. He was first distinguished as a teacher of Rhetoric. He afterwards
+        became a Christian at the persuasion of the Priest Caecilius, whose surname he took, and
+        parted all his goods among the poor. It was not long before he was chosen a Priest, and then
+        made Bishop of Carthage. It would be idle to enlarge upon his wit, seeing that his works are
+        as well known as the sun. He suffered under the Emperors Valerian and Gallienus, in the
+        eighth persecution, and upon the same day, though not in the same year, that Cornelius
+        testified at Rome.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-cyprian-and-justina.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Cyprian and Justina, Martyrs (Sep 26)
+# — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/09-26*.txt at all; the "n" suffix
+# variant at this date is a modern 20th-c. feast, not relevant).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-26.txt, English/Sancti/09-26.txt.
+# Lectio2-3 is one continuous account, no internal break, combined into
+# a single reading. No responsory given.
+id: ss-cyprian-and-justina
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Cypriánus, primum magus, póstea Martyr, cum Justínam, christiánam Vírginem, quam júvenis
+        quidam ardénter amábat, cantiónibus ac venefíciis ad ejus libídinis assénsum allícere
+        conarétur, dæmonem consúluit quanam id re cónsequi posset. Cui dæmon respóndit nullam illi
+        artem processúram advérsus eos, qui vere Christum cólerent. Quo respónso commótus Cypriánus,
+        veheménter dolére cœpit vitæ superióris institútum. Itaque, relíctis mágicis ártibus, se
+        totum ad Christi Dómini fidem convértit.
+
+
+        Quam ob causam una cum Vírgine Justína comprehénsus est, et ambo cólaphis flagellísque cæsi
+        sunt; mox in cárcerem conjécti, si forte senténtiam commutárent. Verum, inde póstea emíssi,
+        cum in christiána religióne constantíssimi reperiréntur, in sartáginem plenam fervéntis
+        picis, ádipis et ceræ injécti sunt. Demum Nicomedíæ secúri feriúntur. Quorum projécta córpora
+        cum sex dies inhumáta jacuíssent noctu quidam nautæ clam ea in navem impósita Romam
+        portavérunt. Ac primum in prædio Rufínæ nóbilis féminæ sepúlta sunt; póstea, transláta in
+        Urbem, in basílica Constantiniána cóndita sunt prope baptistérium.
+      en: >-
+        Cyprian was firstly a warlock and lastly a Martyr. A certain young man having a violent lust
+        after a Christian maiden named Justina, employed him to excite her to join in this lewdness,
+        by dint of incantations and philters. Cyprian thereupon asked counsel of the devil, how he
+        might best gain that end. But the devil answered him that these arts are only thrown away
+        upon true worshippers of Christ. This answer troubled Cyprian, and he began to repent
+        heartily of the course of life he had hitherto led. And then he forsook his arts magic, and
+        gave himself wholly up to the faith of the Lord Christ.
+
+
+        For this cause, he and the Virgin Justina were arrested together, beaten with blows and
+        scourging, and cast into prison, if haply they might change their mind. Being brought out of
+        the prison, but still standing fast in their Christian religion, they were dipped in a vessel
+        full of hot pitch, fat, and wax, and in the end beheaded, at Nicomedia. Their bodies were
+        thrown out, and lay unburied for the space of six days, at the end of which time some sailors
+        took them secretly by night on board a ship and carried them to Rome. They were first buried
+        on the farm of the noble Lady Rufina, but afterwards brought into the city, where they lie
+        hard by the Baptistery in the Church of Constantine.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-euphemia-lucia-and-geminianus.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Euphemia, Lucy, and Geminian, Martyrs
+# (Sep 16) — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/09-16.txt is a
+# different saint pairing (Ss. Cornelius and Cyprian, sourced separately
+# in ss-cornelius-and-cyprian.yml) who share this date on the general
+# calendar; Euphemia/Lucy/Geminian's own content is at the suffixed
+# sibling file (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical
+# wrinkle").
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-16cc.txt, English/Sancti/09-16cc.txt.
+# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source.
+id: ss-euphemia-lucia-and-geminianus
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Euphemia, Lúcia et Geminianus, in persecutióne Diocletiáni, non eodem loco, sed eodem die,
+        martyrio coronáti sunt. Euphemia Virgo apud Chalcédonem, Prisco proconsule, varia
+        tormentórum genera, virgárum, equulei, rotárum, ignis constanter passa; demum béstiis
+        objecta, una ex iis morsum sancto corpori infigente, ceteris pedes ejus lambéntibus,
+        immaculátum spíritum Deo réddidit. Lúcia, vidua Romana, a fílio Eutropio quod Christum multos
+        annos coluísset accusata, in ollam pice ac plumbo ferventuem dimittitur; unde incólumis
+        evadens, cum ferro plumboque oneráta per Urbem ducerétur, Geminianum, nóbilem virum,
+        constántia fidei et martyrii ad Christum convértit. Quem étiam cum multis aliis ad fidem
+        perductis, varie tortum, gloriosi martyrii, abscisso cápite, socium hábuit. Quorum córpora
+        Maxima, mulier christiana, honorifice sepelívit.
+      en: >-
+        Euphemia, Lucy, and Geminian were all crowned with Martyrdom in the persecution under
+        Diocletian, upon the same day, though not in the same place. Euphemia was a maiden of
+        Chalcedon, who suffered diverse tortures under the Proconsul Priscus. She endured
+        unflinchingly the rods, the rack, the wheels, and the fire, and in the end was thrown to
+        wild beasts. These all licked her feet, save one, which gave her holy body such a bite, that
+        she forthwith resigned her guileless spirit to God. Lucy was a widow at Rome, who was
+        accused by her own son Eutropius, for that she had for many years worshipped Christ. She was
+        put into a vessel of hot pitch and lead, but came forth unhurt. As she was being haled
+        through the city loaded with iron and lead, the sight of her faith and unwavering
+        testification turned to Christ the nobleman Geminian. He was one of many whom she had
+        brought to the faith, and she had him for a comrade in her glorious martyrdom, for he was
+        diverse ways tormented, and then beheaded. Their bodies were given honourable burial by the
+        Christian lady Maxima.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-giles.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Giles, Abbot (Sep 1) —
+# pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/09-01*.txt at all).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-01.txt, English/Sancti/09-01.txt. Single
+# lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source.
+id: st-giles
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Ægidius Atheniénsis, regiæ stirpis, a prima ætate divinis litteris et caritátis officiis ita
+        déditus fuit, ut nihil præterea curare viderétur. Itaque, paréntibus mórtuis, totum
+        patrimónium in páuperes erogávit; quin étiam túnicam exuit, ut ægrotum egentem tégeret, qua
+        ille indútus, statim conváluit. Sed multis deinceps clarior miraculis, timens sui nóminis
+        celebritátem, Arelátem ad beátum Cæsárium contendit. A quo post biennium discédens, secessit
+        in eremum; ubi diutius herbárum radicibus et cervæ lacte, quæ statis ad eum horis veniebat,
+        admirábili sanctitáte vixit. Quæ cerva, insequéntibus quodam die cánibus regiis, cum in
+        antrum Ægidii refugísset, Galliæ regem ímpulit, ut ab eo summis precibus péteret, ut in loco
+        speluncæ monastérium éxstrui paterétur. Cujus administratiónem, flagitante rege, invitus
+        suscépit; eoque munere aliquot annis prudenter piéque gesto, migrávit in cælum.
+      en: >-
+        The holy Abbot Giles was by birth an Athenian, and of Royal lineage. From his youth he
+        showed ever such a love for sacred learning and for works of charity, that he seemed to care
+        for nothing else. When his father and mother were dead, he bestowed his whole inheritance
+        upon the poor. He took off even his own coat, to clothe a poor sick man withal, and the sick
+        man was healed forthwith as soon as he put it on him. As Giles became famous for working
+        miracles, he fled from glory among men, and betook him to Arles, to the company of blessed
+        Caesarius. After the space of two years he departed thence, and went into the desert, for he
+        lived in wonderful holiness for a long while upon the roots of herbs and the milk of an
+        hind, which came to him at regular hours. This hind was chased one day by the King's hounds,
+        and took refuge in Giles's cave. Thereby the King of France was moved earnestly to entreat of
+        him that he would suffer a monastery to be built in the place where this cave was. At the
+        instant desire of the King, he took the rule of this monastery, albeit himself unwilling, and
+        discharged this duty wisely and godly for some years, until he passed away to heaven.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-januarius.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Januarius, Bishop, and Companions,
+# Martyrs (Sep 19) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/09-19*.txt at
+# all). web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-19.txt,
+# English/Sancti/09-19.txt.
+#
+# Lectio4-6 is this saint's own proper vita, one continuous account, no
+# internal break, combined into a single reading.
+#
+# Nocturn 3's Lectio7 gives only the Gospel incipit ("Et réliqua", Matt
+# 24:3-13) with no full pericope text, so the bare Gospel reading isn't
+# authored here (deferred, pending the bulk Vulgate/Douay-Rheims
+# import). Lectio7's own homily portion + Lectio8-9 is one continuous
+# excerpt from St. Hilary's commentary, combined into a single reading.
+# No responsory given for either reading in the source.
+id: st-januarius
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Januarius, Benevénti epíscopus, Diocletiáno et Maximiáno in Christiános sæviéntibus, ad
+        Timotheum Campaniæ præsidem ob christianæ fidei professiónem Nolam perducitur. Ibi, ejus
+        constántia varie tentata, in ardentem fornacem conjéctus, ita illæsus evasit, ut ne
+        vestiméntum aut capillum quidem flamma violáverit. Hinc præses, accénsus iracúndia, Mártyris
+        corpus imperat usque eo dístrahi, quoad nervórum compages artuumque solvántur. Festus interea
+        ejus diaconus et Desiderius lector, comprehénsi vinctique, una cum episcopo ante rhedam
+        præsidis Puteleos pertrahúntur, et in eumdem carcerem, in quo Sosius Misenas et Próculus
+        Puteolánus diáconus, Eutyches et Acutius láici, ad bestias damnati, detinebántur, simul
+        conjiciúntur.
+
+
+        Postero die omnes in amphitheatro feris objecti sunt; quæ, naturalis oblitæ feritátis, ad
+        Januarii pedes se prostravére. Id Timótheus mágicis cantiónibus tribuens, cum senténtiam
+        cápitis in Christi Mártyres pronuntiásset, óculis repénte captus, orante mox beato Januario,
+        lumen recepit; quo miraculo hóminum míllia fere quinque Christi fidem suscepérunt. Verum
+        ingrátus judex, níhilo placatior factus beneficio, sed conversióne tantæ multitúdinis actus
+        in rábiem; véritus maxime príncipum decreta, sanctum Episcopum cum sociis gládio pércuti
+        jussit.
+
+
+        Horum córpora finítimæ urbes, pro suo quæque studio certum sibi patronum ex iis apud Deum
+        adoptándi, sepelienda curarunt. Januarii corpus Neapolitani divino admónitu extulére; quod,
+        primo Benevéntum, inde ad monastérium montis Vírginis, postremo Neapolim translátum et in
+        majori ecclésia cónditum, multis miraculis cláruit. Sed illud in primis memorándum, quod
+        erumpéntes olim e monte Vesuvio flammárum globos, nec vicínis modo sed longinquis étiam
+        regiónibus vastitátis metum afferéntes, exstinxit. Præclárum illud quoque, quod ejus sanguis,
+        qui in ampulla vitrea concretus asservátur, cum in conspéctu cápitis ejusdem Mártyris
+        pónitur, admirándum in modum colliquefíeri et ebullire, perinde atque recens effúsus, ad hæc
+        usque témpora cernitur.
+      en: >-
+        At that time the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian were furiously raging against Christians,
+        Januarius, Bishop of Benevento, was taken to Nola, to Timothy, President of Campania, on the
+        charge of professing the Christian faith. There his firmness was tried diverse ways, and he
+        was cast into a burning fiery furnace, but came forth thence unhurt, for neither upon his
+        raiment nor upon the hairs of his head did the flame take any hold. Thereupon the wrath of
+        the President was enkindled, and he commanded the martyr to be torn limb from limb. But in
+        the meanwhile Januarius' Deacon Festus and his Reader Desiderius were taken, and the whole
+        three were led in bonds to Puzzuoli in front of the President's carriage, and there thrown
+        into the same prison wherein were already held four other Christians condemned to be
+        devoured by wild beasts, that is to say, Sosius, a Deacon of Miseno, Proculus, a Deacon of
+        Puzzuoli, and two laymen, named respectively Eutyches and Acutius.
+
+
+        The next day all seven were exposed to the wild beasts in the amphitheatre, but these
+        creatures forgot their natural fierceness, and lay down at the feet of Januarius. Timothy
+        would have it that this came from charms, and commanded the witnesses of Christ to be
+        beheaded. Thereupon he became of a sudden blind, until Januarius had prayed for him, by the
+        which miracle nearly five thousand persons were turned to Christ. But this good turn roused
+        up no gratitude in the President, yea, rather, the conversion of so many drave him wild, and
+        in his hot fear to obey the decrees of the Emperors he commanded that the holy Bishop and his
+        companions should be smitten with the sword.
+
+
+        The cities of those coasts strove to obtain their bodies for honourable burial, so as to
+        make sure of having in them advocates with God. By God's will the relics of Januarius were
+        taken to Naples at last, after having been carried from Puzzuoli to Benevento, and from
+        Benevento to Monte Vergine; when they were brought thence to Naples, they were laid in the
+        chief Church there, and there have been famous on account of many miracles. Among these is
+        remarkable the stopping of eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, whereby both that neighbourhood and
+        also places afar off have been like to have been brought to desolation. It is also well
+        known, and is the plain fact, seen even unto this day, that when the blood of Januarius, kept
+        dried up in a small glass phial, is put in sight of the head of the same martyr, it is used
+        to melt and bubble in a very strange way, as though it had but freshly been shed.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 3
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Commentary on Matthew, ch. 25"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Discipuli Dóminum intérrogant quando hæc fíerent, quodve signum et adventus sui et
+        consummatiónis sæculi nóscerent. Et, quia tria hæc in unum quæsíta sunt, distinctis et
+        témporis et intelligéntiæ significatiónibus separántur. Respondétur ígitur primum de
+        civitátis occasu, et confirmántur veritáte doctrinæ, ne quis fallax ignorántibus posset
+        obrépere; venturi enim erant étiam eórum témpore, qui se Christum essent nuncupatúri. Ut
+        ígitur fides pestífero mendácio détrahi posset, admonítio præcessit.
+
+
+        Confírmat ígitur eos ad tolerántiam passiónum, fugæ, verberatiónis, intéritus et publici in
+        eos odii propter nomen ejus. Atque his quidem vexatiónibus multi turbabúntur, et, tantis
+        insurgéntibus malis scandalizabúntur, et usque in mutuum ódium excitabúntur. Et falsi
+        prophetæ erunt, multosque ementíta veritáte pervertent; et, abundante nequitia, caritas
+        refrigéscet.
+
+
+        Sed usque in finem perseverántibus salus reserváta est; ac tum, per omnes orbis partes viris
+        apostolicis dispersis, Evangélii véritas prædicábitur. Et, cum univérsis fúerit cognítio
+        sacraménti cæléstis invecta, tum Jerúsalem occasus et finis incumbet; ut prædicatiónis fidem,
+        et infidelium pœna et metus civitátis érutæ consequátur. Hæc ígitur in eam, ut fuerant
+        prædicta, perfécta sunt; et, lapidatis, fugatis, peremptis Apóstolis, fame, bello,
+        captivitáte consumpta est. Ac tum fuit digna non esse, cum, ejectis prædicatóribus Christi,
+        indignam Dei prædicatióne se præbuit.
+      en: >-
+        His disciples came unto Him privately, saying: "Tell us, when shall these things be, and
+        what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the world?" Here are in one question
+        three several points, and the answers are to be understood of three several times, and by
+        three several interpretations. "When shall these things be?" And herein He taught them
+        concerning the fall of the city, whereof He made plain announcement, lest the unlearned
+        might fall a prey to any deceiver. For within the lifetime of His then hearers were to come
+        many, saying: I am Christ. He giveth warning therefore beforehand, lest such pestilential
+        liars should gain any belief.
+
+
+        He confirms them, therefore, to endure sufferings, flight, scourging, death, and the public
+        hatred of all men for His Name's sake. And by these very troubles many shall be troubled, and
+        as such great evils arise they shall be offended, and shall even be stirred up to hatred of
+        one another. And false prophets shall arise, and shall deceive many by their pretended truth;
+        and because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
+
+
+        But unto them that endure unto the end salvation is reserved; and then, the apostolic men
+        having been scattered through every part of the world, the truth of the Gospel shall be
+        preached. And when the knowledge of the heavenly mystery has been carried to all, then the
+        fall and end of Jerusalem shall come to pass; so that the faith of the preaching, and the
+        punishment and terror of the unbelievers, may follow from the destroyed city. These things
+        therefore were fulfilled in her, just as they had been foretold; and, the Apostles having
+        been stoned, put to flight, and slain, she was consumed by famine, war, and captivity. And
+        she then proved unworthy to continue, when, having cast out the preachers of Christ, she
+        showed herself unworthy of God's preaching.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-nicholas-of-tolentino.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Nicholas of Tolentino, Confessor
+# (Sep 10) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/09-10*.txt at all; the
+# "bmv" suffix variant at this date is unrelated/empty).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-10.txt, English/Sancti/09-10.txt.
+# Lectio4-6 is this saint's own proper text, one continuous vita
+# account, no internal break, combined into a single reading;
+# Lectio7-9 are Common-of-a-Confessor (skipped). No responsory given.
+id: st-nicholas-of-tolentino
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Nicolaus, Tolentinas a diuturno illíus civitátis domicílio appellátus, in oppido sancti
+        Angeli in Piceno est natus piis paréntibus; qui, liberórum desidério Bárium voti causa
+        profecti, ibique a sancto Nicoláo de futura prole confirmáti, quem suscepérunt fílium de
+        illíus nómine appellarunt. Is ab infántia multárum virtútum, sed abstinéntiæ in primis,
+        specimen dedit. Nam anno vix septimo, beátum ipsum Nicolaum imitatus, complures hebdomadæ
+        dies jejunare cœpit; eamque póstea consuetúdinem retinuit, solo pane et aqua contentus.
+
+
+        Adulta ætate, jam clericali milítiæ adscriptus et canonicus factus, cum quodam die
+        concionatórem ordinis Eremitárum sancti Augustíni de mundi contemptu dicéntem audísset, eo
+        sermóne inflammatus, statim eumdem ordinem est ingréssus. In quo tam exactam religiosæ vitæ
+        ratiónem coluit, ut áspero vestítu, verbéribus et férrea catena corpus domans, atque a carne
+        et omni fere obsónio ábstinens, caritate, humilitate, patiéntia ceterisque virtútibus, aliis
+        prælucéret.
+
+
+        Orándi assiduum studium, quamvis sátanæ insídiis varie vexátus et flagellis intérdum cæsus,
+        non intermittebat. Demum, sex ante óbitum mensibus, singulis noctibus angelicum concentum
+        audívit; cujus suavitate cum jam paradisi gaudia prægustaret, crebro illud Apóstoli
+        repetebat: Cupio dissolvi, et esse cum Christo. Denique óbitus sui diem frátribus prædixit,
+        qui fuit quarto Idus Septembris. Miraculis multis étiam post mortem cláruit; quibus rite et
+        ordine cógnitis, ab Eugenio Papa quarto in Sanctórum númerum est relatus.
+      en: >-
+        This Nicholas is called Nicholas of Tolentino, because he lived in that town for most part
+        of his life. He was born at St. Angelo, a place near Fermo, in the March of Ancona. His
+        parents were godly people, and in their desire to have children, vowed and made a pilgrimage
+        to the shrine of St. Nicholas at Bari, where they were assured of their wish, and therefore
+        gave the name of Nicholas to the son whom they received. From his childhood the lad gave
+        many good signs, but especially as regarded abstinence. In his seventh year, in imitation of
+        his blessed name-sake, he began to fast upon several days in the week, which custom he
+        always kept, and was content with only bread and water.
+
+
+        After he reached man's estate, he enlisted himself in the army of the clergy, and was
+        preferred to a Canonry. One day he chanced to hear a sermon upon contempt of the world
+        delivered by a preacher of the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine, and was so moved by it
+        that he forthwith entered that Order. As a Friar he was most strictly observant of that way
+        of life. He subdued his body with rough clothing, stripes, and an iron chain. He never ate
+        meat, and seldom any relish to his meals. And he was a burning and shining light of love,
+        lowliness, long-suffering, and all other graces.
+
+
+        He persisted in constant and earnest prayer, notwithstanding many troubles from the assaults
+        of Satan, who sometimes even flogged him. Every night for six months before his death he
+        heard Angels singing with such sweetness, that it was a fore-taste of the happiness of
+        heaven, and he would often repeat the words of the Apostle: I have a desire to depart and to
+        be with Christ. Lastly, he foretold to his brethren the day of his death, which was the 10th
+        day of September. After his death also he was famous for miracles, and when due
+        investigation had been made thereof, Pope Eugene IV enrolled his name among those of the
+        Saints.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for the Vigil of St. Matthew (Sep 20) —
+# pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/09-20.txt is a different feast
+# (Ss. Eustace and Companions) occupying this date in the general
+# calendar; the vigil's own content is at the suffixed sibling file (see
+# memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle").
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-20o.txt, English/Sancti/09-20o.txt.
+#
+# Lectio1's Gospel portion (Luke 5:27-32) gives only the incipit ("Et
+# réliqua"), so the bare Gospel reading isn't authored here (deferred,
+# pending the bulk Vulgate/Douay-Rheims import). Lectio1's own homily
+# portion + Lectio2-3 is one continuous excerpt from St. Ambrose's
+# commentary, combined into a single reading. The English source only
+# translates Lectio1's homily portion — Lectio2-3's English below is
+# this project's own translation, not the reference engine's, so the
+# whole reading is marked draft for English per this project's "prefer
+# text over missing" policy. No responsory given in the source.
+id: vigil-of-st-matthew
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Commentary on Luke, Book 5"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Mystica est hæc vocátio publicani, quem sequi jubet, non corporis gressu, sed mentis
+        afféctu. Itaque ille, prius avara de mercédibus, dura de labóribus periculisque nautárum
+        emoluménta convértens, verbo vocatus, propria derelinquit, qui rapiebat aliena; ac, vile
+        illud sedile destítuens, toto post Dóminum vestigio mentis incedit. Convivii quoque magni
+        éxhibet apparátum; qui enim domicílio Christum récipit interno, maximis delectatiónibus
+        exuberántium páscitur voluptátum.
+
+
+        Itaque Dominus libenter ingreditur, et in ejus qui crediderit, recumbit affectu. Sed rursus
+        accenditur invidia perfidorum, et futuræ pœnæ species præfiguratur. Epulantibus enim
+        fidelibus, et in illo cœlorum recumbentibus regno, perfidia jejuna torquebitur. Simul
+        ostenditur quantum intersit inter æmulos Legis et gratiæ, quod illi qui legem sequuntur,
+        jejunæ mentis famem patiantur æternam: qui vero verbum in interioribus animæ receperunt,
+        alimenti cœlestis et fontis ubertate recreati esurire et sitire non possunt.
+
+
+        Et ideo qui animo jejunabant, murmurabant dicentes: Quare cum publicanis et peccatoribus
+        manducat et bibit? Serpentina vox ista est. Denique hanc primam vocem serpens emisit, dicens
+        Evæ: Quid utique dixit Deus: Nolite manducare ex omni ligno? Ergo patris sui venena
+        diffundunt, qui dicunt: Quid utique cum publicanis et peccatoribus manducat et bibit? Unde
+        Dominus cum peccatoribus manducando, etiam cum gentilibus non prohibet nos inire convivium,
+        dicens: Non egent qui sani sunt, medico, sed qui male habent.
+      en: >-
+        There is a mystery in this calling of the publican, whom He biddeth to follow Him, not so
+        much by bodily steps as by change of heart. Hitherto Levi had been making greedy gains from
+        merchandise, cruel riches at the cost of sailors' toils and dangers; but now, at the call of
+        a word, he, who had been plundering other men's goods, leaveth his own. He leaveth that base
+        station, and followeth hard after the Lord with all his heart. And Levi made Him a great
+        feast in his own house. He that welcometh Christ into his home, feasteth upon the excellency
+        of all pleasures.
+
+
+        And so the Lord gladly enters in, and reclines in the affection of him who has believed. But
+        again the envy of the faithless is kindled, and the likeness of a punishment to come is
+        prefigured. For while the faithful feast and recline in that kingdom of the heavens,
+        unbelief, famished, will be tormented. At the same time it is shown how great a difference
+        there is between the rivals of the Law and of grace: that those who follow the Law suffer an
+        eternal hunger of a fasting mind, while those who have received the Word in the inward parts
+        of the soul, refreshed by the abundance of heavenly food and of the fountain, cannot hunger
+        or thirst.
+
+
+        And so those who fasted in spirit murmured, saying: Why does he eat and drink with publicans
+        and sinners? This is a serpent's voice. For indeed the serpent uttered this very first word,
+        saying to Eve: Why indeed did God say, Do not eat of every tree? So they who say, Why indeed
+        does he eat and drink with publicans and sinners, spread abroad the poison of their father.
+        Whence the Lord, by eating with sinners, does not forbid us to enter also into feasting with
+        the Gentiles, saying: They that are well have no need of a physician, but they that are
+        sick.
+    status: { la: verified, en: draft }