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14 of November's 16 SanctiM-track saints authored, including All
Saints of the Benedictine Order -- a genuinely Monastic-only feast
with both rich content and (unusually for this pass) an available
English translation. St. Martin I is another off-date case like St.
Paul the Hermit, and two more saints (St. Emilian, St. Odo) turn out
Monastic-only-but-Common-only, extending October's wrinkle.
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saints (Tridentine/Divino Afflatu-sourced, no Monastic 1617 track) are now done — see
"Pre-1955 saints' Matins readings" below. The larger pool of saints that *do* have a
Monastic 1617 track (`SanctiM/`) is in progress — see "SanctiM-track saints' Matins
readings" below — January-October done (102/120), ~43 candidates remain (November onward).
readings" below — January-November done (116/136), ~29 candidates remain (December).
- The bulk Vulgate (Latin) + Douay-Rheims (English) scripture import into
`src/data/scripture/` — long-term project, explicitly deferred; Matins scripture
citations resolve to `missing` text until it lands.
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`vigil-of-all-saints` (Nocturn 1 only, no Nocturn 2/3 content in either track). `npm test`/`tsc
--noEmit` both pass.
**Not done in this pass**: the remaining ~43 SanctiM-track candidates (November onward) — same
**November done (14/16 saints, 2 left unauthored as Common-only)**: `all-saints`,
`st-martin-of-tours`, `st-menna` (missed pre-1955-pool), `st-martin-i` (off-date, like St. Paul
the Hermit — general calendar keeps him Nov 12, this app's own Nov 12 goes to St. Emilian),
`all-saints-of-the-benedictine-order` (genuinely Monastic-only, and unusually one of the few
such cases with both rich content *and* an available English translation),
`dedication-of-the-basilicas-of-ss-peter-and-paul` (missed pre-1955-pool; one sentence of the
source's own English translation was left untranslated, so `en` for that reading is `draft`),
`st-pontian` (missed pre-1955-pool), `st-cecilia`, `st-clement`, `st-felicitas` (missed
pre-1955-pool), `st-chrysogonus` (missed pre-1955-pool), `st-silvester-abbot`,
`st-peter-of-alexandria` (missed pre-1955-pool), `st-andrew`. Left unauthored (Common-only, no
proper text at all in the source): `st-emilian`, `st-odo` — both genuinely Monastic-only but
with no Lectio content in their own SanctiM files, the same wrinkle as `st-justina`/`st-gall`
in October. `npm test`/`tsc --noEmit` both pass.
**Not done in this pass**: the remaining ~29 SanctiM-track candidates (December) — same
authoring shape, continue month by month.
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for All Saints of the Benedictine Order
# (Nov 13) — a genuine Monastic-only feast: no `Sancti/11-13*.txt`
# names it at all (the general Tridentine calendar's own Nov 13 is a
# different, later saint, St. Didacus); its own content exists only at
# web/www/horas/Latin/SanctiM/11-13M.txt (a rare case where an
# English/SanctiM translation also exists, unlike most of this pass's
# genuinely Monastic-only saints — see memory vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# Nocturn 1 (Lectio1-4) falls back to Common of Several Confessors, not
# proper text, so not authored here.
#
# Nocturn 2: Lectio5-8 (St. John Damascene's excerpt from the Life of
# Barlaam and Josaphat, praising the saints generally) combined into
# one reading, one continuous excerpt. One garbled character in the
# Latin source ("exsultࢱtio") silently corrected to "exsultátio" in
# transcription.
# Nocturn 3: Lectio9's Gospel citation (Matt 19:27-29) is a bare
# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so — per
# the pre-1955 pass's convention of not transcribing bare incipits —
# only the homily portion is authored (not marked isGospel), combined
# with Lectio10-12 as one continuous excerpt of St. Bernard's own
# sermon on St. Benedict. No responsory given for either reading.
id: all-saints-of-the-benedictine-order
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
source: "St. John Damascene, Life of Barlaam and Josaphat, ch. 2"
text:
la: >-
Beáti isti ac ter beáti, ut qui Dei amóre flagrárunt, atque ob ipsíus caritátem
ómnia pro níhilo duxérunt. Síquidem lácrimas profudérunt, diéque ac nocte in luctu
versáti sunt, ut perpétuam consolatiónem adisceréntur: seípsos ultro depressérunt, ut
illic in altum attolleréntur. Carnes suas fame ac siti et vigíllis confecérunt, ut
illic paradísis delíciæ et exsultátio ipsos excíperent.
Spíritus Sancti tabernáculum per cordis puritátem exstitérunt, quemádmodum scriptum
est: Inhabitábo in ipsis et inambulábo. Seípsis mundo crucifixérunt, ut ad Christi
déxteram starent: lumbos suos in veritáte succinxérunt, atque in promptu semper
lámpades habuérunt, immortális Sponsi advéntum expectántes. Nam, cum mentis óculis
prǽditi essent, hórrendum illum diem semper prospiciébant, atque tum futurórum
bonórum, tum futúri supplícii contemplatiónem ita in corde defíxam gerébant, ut ab
ipsa nunquam divelleréntur. Atque hic laboráre studuérunt, ut sempitérnæ glóriæ
cómpotes essent: perturbatiónum expértes, non secus atque Angeli fuérunt, ac nunc cum
illis, quorum vitam imitáti sunt, choréas agunt.
Beáti illi ac ter beáti, quóniam firmis mentis óculis præséntium rerum vanitátem,
atque humánæ prosperitátis incertitúdinem et inconstántiam perspexérunt, eáque
reíecta, sempitérna bona sibi ipsis condidérunt, ac vitam eam, quæ nunquam occídit,
nec morte interrúmpitur, arripuérunt.
Hos ígitur admirándos et sanctos viros nos quoque indígni ac despicábiles imitári
studémus. Verum eórum vitæ cæléstis fastígium mínime asséqimur, sed pro
infirmitátis nostræ ac míseræ facultátis módulo eórum vitam exprímus; atque
ipsórum hábitum gérimus, étiam sui ópera non assequámur. Etenim, divínam hanc
professiónem, peccátum propulsáre, atque incorruptiónis per divínum baptísma nobis
concéssæ sóciam et opitulatrícem esse, perspéctum habémus.
en: >-
Blessed, yea, thrice blessed, are they that have them loved God, and, for his love's
sake, have counted their suffering as nothing worth. For they wept and here mourned,
day and night, that they might gain glory and everlasting comfort: they humbled
themselves after willingly, that there they might be exalted: they afflicted the flesh
with hunger and thirst and vigil, that there they might come to the pleasures and joys
of Paradise.
By their purity of heart they became a tabernacle of the Holy Ghost, as it is
written, I will dwell in them and walk in them. They crucified themselves unto the
world, that they might stand at the right hand of the Crucified: they girt their loins
with truth, and alway had their lamps ready, looking for the coming of the immortal
bridegroom. The eye of their mind being enlightened, they continually looked forward
to that awful hour, and kept the contemplation of future happiness and everlasting
punishment immovable from their hearts, and pained themselves to labour, that they
might not lose eternal glory. They became passionless as the Angels, and now they
weave the dance in their fellowship, whose lives also they imitated.
Blessed, yea, thrice blessed are they, because with sure spiritual vision they
discerned the vanity of this present world and the uncertainty and inconstancy of
mortal fortune, and cast it aside, and laid up for themselves everlasting blessings,
and laid hold of that life which never faileth, nor is broken by death.
These then are the marvellous holy men whose examples we, that are poor and vile,
strive to imitate, but cannot attain to the high level of the life of these heavenly
citizens. Nevertheless, so far as is possible for our weakness and feeble power, we
take this assurance, that this holy profession is a means to perfection and an aid to
the incorruption given us by holy baptism.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot, Sermon on St. Benedict (on Matt 19:27-29)"
text:
la: >-
Modo útique, fratres, audístis in Evangélio promitténtem Dóminum et dicéntem
discípulis: Sedébitis super sedes, judicántes duódecim tribus Israël. Ecce quies
sessiónis et honor judícii. Nam et ipse Dóminus ad hæc nóluit perveníre, nisi per
humilitátem et labórem. Unde et morte turpíssima condemnátus est, interrogátus
torméntis, et oppróbriis saturátus: útique ut inimícus induátur confusióne, ipse
páriter et omnes, qui imitántur eum, et prætergrediúntur viam. Ipse est, o iníque,
ipse est, qui sessúrus est in sede majestátis suæ símilis Altíssimo, et coaltíssimus
ei. Hoc útique cogitavérunt Angeli sancti, qui, cadénte malígno, apostasíæ illíus
non consensérunt, nobis relinquéntes exémplum, ut, quemádmodum ipsi elegérunt
ministráre, sic et nos faciámus.
Qui enim labórem fúgiunt et honórem captant, illum se nóverint imitári, qui
sessiónem altitudinémque quæsívit: et si non satis terret eos illíus culpa, térreat
vel vindícta. Ad hæc vitánda prudéntiam nobis reliquérunt Sancti Dei, qui profécto
sedébunt; ipsi, inquam, vermículi terræ judicántes sedébunt. Nescítis, ait
Apóstolus, quia et Angelos judicábimus? Ipsi útique, qui ibant et flebant, mitténtes
sémina sua, veniéntes autem vénient cum exsultatióne, portántes manípulos suos. Qui
seminavérunt labórem et vilitátem, metent honórem páriter et quiétem. Pro
confusiónem enim sua dúplici et labóre, in terra sua duplícia possidébunt. Unde et
dicébat quidam: Vide humilitátem meam et labórem meum.
Non solum autem ipsa vita, sed et promíssio vitæ ætérnæ et expectátio justórum,
lætítia est, et tanta lætítia, ut omne, quod concupíscitur, ei non váleat
comparári. Hanc quoque prudéntiam nobis Apóstoli sancti seminavérunt, quando,
recedéntibus his, qui sapiéntiam hujus mundi sequebántur, quæ stultítia est apud
Deum, et prudéntiam carnis, quæ mortem operátur et inimíca est Deo; ipsi Dómino
adhæsérunt. Mártyres vero maniféstum est fortitúdinem seminásse. Porro Confessóres
sectáti sunt justítiam in omni vita sua.
Hac doctrína nos étiam ínstruit noster cæléstis pater, dux, magíster et légifer
Benedíctus, et dírigit gressus nostros in viam pacis. Porro vitæ justítia omníno
róborat et ánimat nos, ut tanto magis accendámur ad agénda quæ dócuit, quanto certi
sumus eum non ália docuísse quam fécerit. Sermo quidem vivus et éfficax, exemplum
óperis est, plúrimum fáciens suadíbile quod dícitur, dum monstrat factíbile quod
suadétur. In hunc ergo modum sánctitas confórtat, pietátis infórmat, justítia
confírmat. Quantæ enim pietátis fuit, quod non solum præséntibus prófuit, sed et pro
futúris sollícitus fuit? Pascit vita, pascit doctrína, pascit intercessióne. Per
quam incessánter adjúti, fructificáte et vos, caríssimi, quóniam in hoc pósiti
estis, ut eátis et fructum afferátis. Imitémur et hunc; quóniam ad hoc venit, ut
formam nobis tráderet, et viam demonstráret.
en: >-
Brethren, you have just heard our Lord making a promise to His disciples, saying to
them: You shall sit on seats, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Behold, the
restfulness of being seated and the honour of passing judgment are promised. Now our
Lord Himself was unwilling to receive these rewards except by humility and labour.
Wherefore He was condemned to a most shameful death, loaded with torments, filled with
opprobrium. So has He done, together with all who imitate Him in journeying on the
way, in order that the enemy might be confounded. He it is, O wicked creature, He it
is who will be seated on the throne of His Majesty, like to the Most High and equal to
Him. The angels considered this when, at the fall of the evil one, they did not
consent to his apostasy, thereby leaving us an example that as they chose to serve, so
should we.
Let those who fly labour and seek honour know that they imitate him who sought for
himself power and majesty; and if the devil's crime does not terrify them, his
punishment should. The saints of God, who indeed will be seated in judgment, have
given us an example of prudence in avoiding these vices. They, I say, in their own
esteem wretched worms of the earth, will sit in judgment. Do you not know, says the
Apostle, that we shall judge even the angels? They indeed who went forth weeping,
sowing their seed, will come with joy carrying their sheaves. They who have sown
labour and humility reap honour and rest. Because for their double confusion and
shame they will receive double in their land. Wherefore also a certain one has said:
Behold my lowliness and sorrow.
Not only that life itself, but also the promise of eternal life and the eager
anticipation of it, are a joy for the just, and a joy so great that anything to be
desired cannot be compared with it. This too the holy Apostles sowed for us as
prudence, when, as those who followed the wisdom of this world (which is indeed
foolishness in God's sight) and the prudence of the flesh (which worketh death and is
inimical to God) withdrew from Christ, they themselves clung to our Lord. Manifestly,
the martyrs sowed fortitude; the confessors followed justice throughout their lives.
Our heavenly father, guide, master, and lawgiver Benedict, also instructs us in this
doctrine and directs our steps along the way of peace. Moreover, he strengthens and
animates us for a life of justice in such a way that we are so much the more impelled
to practice what he taught as we are certain that he taught not otherwise than he
acted. The example of works is indeed a living and effective sermon, since it makes
what is spoken most persuasive, showing that that which is urged is possible. In this
regard his sanctity comforts us, his piety instructs us, his justice strengthens us.
With what great piety was he not animated who provided not only for his children
present, but was also solicitous for those of the future! He nourishes us by his life,
his teaching, and by his intercession. Being always thus helped, dearly beloved,
become fruitful; since for this were you appointed, that you should go and bring forth
fruit. Let us imitate him, because for this end he came, that he might give us the
example and show us the way.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for All Saints (Nov 1) — SanctiM/11-01.txt
# inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/11-01`) with no Nocturn 2/3
# override, so this feast's own proper content is sourced from the
# Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see memory
# vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/11-01.txt, English/Sancti/11-01.txt.
# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous excerpt of the
# Venerable Bede's sermon. No responsory given in the source for these
# lessons.
id: all-saints
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
source: "The Venerable Bede, Priest, Sermon 18 on the Saints"
text:
la: >-
Hódie, dilectíssimi, ómnium Sanctórum sub una solemnitátis lætítia celebrámus
festivitátem: quorum societáte cælum exsúltat, quorum patrocíniis terra lætátur,
triúmphis Ecclésia sancta coronátur, quorum conféssio quanto in passióne fórtior,
tanto est clárior in honóre: quia, dum crevit pugna, crevit et pugnántium glória, et
martýrii triúmphus multíplici passiónum génere adornátur: perque gravióra torménta,
gravióra fuére et prǽmia: dum cathólica mater Ecclésia, quæ per totum orbem longe
latéque diffúsa est, in ipso cápite suo Christo Jesu edúcta est, contumélias, cruces
et mortem non timére; magis magísque roboráta, non resisténdo, sed perferéndo,
univérsis, quos ágmine ínclito carcer pœnális inclúsit, pari et símili calóre
virtútis ad geréndum certámen, glóriam triumphálem inspirávit.
O vere beáta mater Ecclésia, quam sic honor divínæ dignatiónis illúminat, quam
vincéntium gloriósus Mártyrum sanguis exórnat, quam inviolátæ confessiónis cándida
índuit virgínitas! Flóribus ejus nec rosæ nec lília desunt. Certent nunc caríssimi,
sínguli, ut ad utrósque honóres amplíssimam accípiant dignitátem, corónas, vel de
virginitáte cándidas, vel de passióne purpúreas. In cæléstibus castris pax et ácies
habent flores suos, quibus mílites Christi coronántur.
Dei enim ineffábilis et imménsa bónitas étiam hoc provídit, ut labórum quidem tempus
et agónis non exténderet, nec longum fáceret, aut ætérnum, sed breve, et ut ita dicam,
momentáneum: ut in hac brevi et exígua vita agónes essent et labóres; in illa vero
quæ ætérna est, corónæ et prǽmia meritórum: ut labóres quidem cito finiréntur,
meritórum vero prǽmia sine fine durárent: ut post hujus mundi ténebras visúri essent
candidíssimam lucem, et acceptúri majórem passiónum cunctárum acerbitátibus
beatitúdinem, testánte hoc idem Apóstolo, ubi ait: Non sunt condígnæ passiónes
hujus témporis ad superventúram glóriam, quæ revelábitur in nobis.
en: >-
Dearly beloved brethren: This day we keep, with one great cry of joy, a Feast in memory
of all God's holy children; His children, whose presence is a gladness to heaven; His
children, whose prayers are a blessing to earth; His children, whose victories are the
crown of the Holy Church; His chosen, whose testifying is the more glorious in honour,
as the agony in which it was given was the sterner in intensity, for as the dreader
grew the battle, so the grander grew the fighters, and the triumph of martyrdom waxed
the more incisive by the multiplicity of suffering, and the heavier the torment the
heavier the prize. And it is our Mother, the Catholic Church, spread far and wide
throughout all this planet, it is she that hath learnt, in Christ Jesus her Head, not to
fear shame, nor cross, nor death, but hath waxed lealer and lealer, and, not by
fighting, but by enduring, hath breathed into all that noble band who have come up to
the bitter starting-post the hope of conquest and glory which hath warmed them manfully
to accept the race.
If a verity thou art blessed, O my Mother the Church! The blaze of God's mercy beateth
full upon thee; thine adornment is the glorious blood of victorious Martyrs, and thy
raiment the virgin whiteness of untarnished orthodoxy; thy garlands lack neither roses
nor lilies. And now, dearly beloved brethren, let each one of us strive to gain the
goodly crown of one sort or the other, either the glistening whiteness of purity, or
the red dye of suffering. In the army in heaven peace and war have both chaplets of
their own, to crown Christ's soldiers withal.
Moreover, to this also hath the unutterable and boundless goodness of God seen, that
He spreadeth not the time of working and wrestling, neither maketh it long, nor
everlasting, and, as it were, but for a moment, so that in this short and scanty life
there is wrestling and working, but the crown and the prize is in a life which is
eternal. So the work is soon over, but the wage is paid for ever. And when the night of
this world is over, the Saints are to see the clearness of the essential light, and to
receive a blessedness outweighing the pangs of any torment, as testifieth the Apostle
Paul, where he saith: The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared
with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for the Dedication of the Basilicas of
# Ss. Peter and Paul (Nov 18). No genuine SanctiM match: the correct
# Tridentine file is the suffixed `Sancti/11-18o.txt` (the plain
# `Sancti/11-18.txt` just redirects there, `@Sancti/11-18o`), and the
# only SanctiM file for this date, `SanctiM/11-18r.txt`, bases
# `@Sancti/11-18r`, a Common-only rubric variant (`vide C8`, no proper
# text) — a missed pre-1955-pool candidate rather than a genuine
# SanctiM case (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints,
# vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/11-18o.txt, English/Sancti/11-18o.txt.
#
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous
# account. The reference engine's own English translation leaves the
# last sentence of Lectio6 untranslated (Latin text left verbatim in
# the English file) — that one sentence is this project's own
# translation, marked `draft`; the rest is the source's own
# translation, `verified`.
# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Luke 19:1-10) is a bare
# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so — per
# the pre-1955 pass's convention of not transcribing bare incipits —
# only the homily portion is authored (not marked isGospel), combined
# with Lectio8-9 as one continuous excerpt of Pope St. Gregory the
# Great's Moralia.
id: dedication-of-the-basilicas-of-ss-peter-and-paul
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Ex locis sacris quæ olim apud Christiános veneratiónem habuérunt, illa celebérrima
et frequentíssima fuérunt, in quibus cóndita Sanctórum córpora, vel áliquod
Mártyrum vestígium aut monuméntum esset. In quorum número sanctórum locórum, in
primis semper fuit insígnis ea Vaticáni pars, quam sancti Petri Confessiónem
appellábant. Nam eo Christiáni ex ómnibus orbis terræ pártibus, tamquam ad fídei
petram et Ecclésiæ fundaméntum conveniéntes, locum, Príncipis Apostolórum sepúlcro
consecrátum, summa religióne ac pietáte venerabántur.
Illuc Constantínus Magnus imperátor octávo die post suscéptum baptísmum venit,
depositóque diadémate, et humi jacens, vim lacrimárum profúdit. Mox, sumpto ligóne
ac bidénte, terram éruit; indéque duódecim terræ cóphinis, honóris causa duódecim
Apostolórum, ablátis, ac loco basílicæ Príncipis Apostolórum designáto, ecclésiam
ædificávit. Quam sanctus Silvéster Papa décimo quarto Kaléndas Decémbris, eo modo
quo Lateranénsem ecclésiam quinto Idus Novémbris consecráverat, dedicávit, et in
ea altáre lapídeum, chrísmate delibútum, eréxit; atque ex eo témpore sancívit ne
deínceps altária nisi ex lápide fíerent.
Basílicam item Pauli apóstoli via Ostiénsi ab eódem Constantíno Imp.
magnificentíssime ædificátam dedicávit: quas basílicas Imperátor, multis prǽdiis
attribútis locupletávit, ac munéribus amplíssimis exornávit. Cujus Imperatóris
tantus fuit ardor religiónis, ut delétis idolórum templis multis ubíque terrárum
extrúxerit ecclésias, et præcípue Romæ, in quibus fuérunt basílica sanctæ Crucis
ad Hierúsalem in agro Sessoriáno, sancti Lauréntii extra muros in agro Veráno,
sanctórum Petri et Marcéllini in via Lavicána, áliquæ permúltæ.
en: >-
Among the hallowed places which have from of old time been held in honour among
Christians, the most famous and sought after were those where the bodies of the
Saints were buried, or where there was some trace or token of the Martyrs. Among
these spots so hallowed hath been ever among the most noteworthy that place on the
Vatican Hill which is called the Confession of St. Peter. Thither Christians do come
from all parts of the earth as unto the rock of faith and the foundation-stone of the
Church, and surround with godly reverence and love the spot hallowed by the grave of
the Prince of the Apostles.
Whither came the Emperor Constantine the Great upon the eighth day after his Baptism,
and, taking off his crown, cast himself down upon the ground, and wept abundantly.
Then presently he took a spade and pick-axe, and began to break up the earth,
whereof he carried away twelve baskets-full in honour of the twelve Apostles, and
built a Church upon that spot, appointed for the Cathedral Church of the Prince of
the Apostles. This Church was hallowed by holy Pope Silvester, in like manner as he
had hallowed the Church of the Lateran. In this Church did the Pope set up an altar
of stone, and pour ointment thereon, and ordain that from thenceforth no altars
should be set up, save of stone.
The same Emperor Constantine likewise built a very stately Church upon the road to
Ostia, in honour of the holy Apostle Paul, which Church also was hallowed by the
blessed Sylvester. These Churches the Emperor enriched by grants of much land, and
adorned with exceedingly rich gifts. So great was this Emperor's zeal for religion
that, having destroyed the temples of idols, he built churches in many places
throughout the earth, and especially at Rome, among which were the Basilica of the
Holy Cross at Jerusalem in the Sessorian estate, that of St. Lawrence outside the
walls in the Verano field, that of Ss. Peter and Marcellinus on the Lavican Way, and
very many others.
status: { la: verified, en: draft }
- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "Pope St. Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, Bk. 28, ch. 27 (on Luke 19:1-10)"
text:
la: >-
Si veráciter sapiéntes esse, atque ipsam sapiéntiam contemplári appétimus, stultos
nos humíliter cognoscámus. Relinquámus nóxiam sapiéntiam, discámus laudábilem
fatuitátem. Hinc quippe scriptum est: Stulta mundi elégit Deus, ut confúndat
sapiéntes. Hinc rursum dícitur: Si quis vidétur inter vos sápiens esse in hoc
sǽculo, stultus fiat, ut sit sápiens. Hinc evangélicæ históriæ verba testántur:
quia Zachǽus cum vidére præ turba nihil posset, sycómori árborem ascéndit, ut
transeúntem Dóminum cérneret. Sycómorus quippe ficus fátua dícitur.
Pusíllus ítaque Zachǽus sycómorum súbiit, et Dóminum vidit: quia qui mundi
stultítiam humíliter éligunt, ipsi Dei sapiéntiam subtíliter contemplántur.
Pusillitátem namque nostram ad vidéndum Dóminum turba prǽpedit: quia infirmitátem
humánæ mentis, ne lucem veritátis inténdat, curárum sæculárium tumúltus premit. Sed
prudénter sycómorum ascéndimus, si próvide eam quæ divínitus præcípitur, stultítiam
mente tenémus. Quid enim in hoc mundo stúltius quam amíssa non quǽrere, posséssa
rapiéntibus relaxáre, nullam pro accéptis injúriis injúriam réddere, immo adjúnctis
áliis patiéntiam præbére?
Quasi enim sycómorum nos ascéndere Dóminus prǽcipit, cum dicit: Qui aufert quæ tua
sunt, ne répetas. Et rursum: Si quis te percússerit in déxteram maxíllam, præbe illi
et álteram. Per sycómorum Dóminus tránsiens cérnitur: quia per hanc sapiéntem
stultítiam, etsi necdum, ut est, sólide, jam tamen per contemplatiónis lumen Dei
sapiéntia quasi in tránsitu vidétur, quam vidére néqueunt qui sibi sapiéntes esse
vidéntur: quia ad conspiciéndum Dóminum, in eláta cogitatiónum suárum turba
deprehénsi, adhuc sycómori árborem non invenérunt.
en: >-
If we would be truly wise, and behold wisdom herself, we must humbly acknowledge
ourselves to be fools. Let us cast away harmful wisdom, and learn praiseworthy folly.
For this reason indeed is it written: God hath chosen the foolish things of the
world, to confound the wise. And again it is said: If any man among you seemeth to be
wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. And unto this doth
the very Gospel bear witness, wherein it is said that Zacchaeus sought to see Jesus,
Who He was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature. And he ran
before, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him; for He was to pass that way.
For this name Sycamore, being interpreted, signifieth the Foolish Fig.
Little Zacchaeus therefore accepted the humiliation of having recourse to the
sycamore and saw the Lord. They who humbly choose to be fools in the estimation of
the world, have a deep insight into the wisdom of God. The press standeth in our way,
on account of our little stature, when we are fain to see the Lord; for the toilsome
din of worldly business tormenteth our weak minds, so as to hinder our perceiving the
light of the truth. But we climb up wisely into the sycamore tree, if we willingly
give up our minds to that folly which God giveth unto us. What can be more utter
folly in this world than not to seek for that we have lost, to leave that whereof we
have been robbed in the hands of our despoilers, to take no revenge for wrongs which
have been done us, yea, even to offer to him that taketh away our cloak, our coat
also, and be patient?
The Lord biddeth us, as it were, to climb up into the sycamore, where He saith: Of
him that taketh away thy goods, ask them not again. And again: Whosoever shall smite
thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. From the boughs of this sycamore
tree, the Lord is seen passing by. He may indeed, as yet, not be seen face to face,
but by this wise folly the inward eye may see the Wisdom of God, as it were, passing
by, even that Wisdom Which they that are wise in their own conceit cannot see. They
are mixed up in the overbearing press of their own imaginations, and have not yet
found the sycamore tree whereinto to climb up, if they would see the Lord.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Andrew, Apostle (Nov 30) —
# SanctiM/11-30.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/11-30`) with no
# Nocturn 2/3 override, so this feast's own proper content is sourced
# from the Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see
# memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/11-30.txt, English/Sancti/11-30.txt.
#
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita
# (including the famous "O bona crux" address to the cross).
# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Matt 4:18-22) is a bare
# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so — per
# the pre-1955 pass's convention of not transcribing bare incipits —
# only the homily portion is authored (not marked isGospel), a single
# excerpt of Pope St. Gregory the Great's homily. No responsory given
# for either reading.
id: st-andrew
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Andréas Apóstolus, Bethsáidæ natus, qui est Galilǽæ vicus, frater Petri, discípulus
Joánnis Baptistæ, cum eum de Christo dicéntem audísset: Ecce Agnus Dei; secútus
Jesum, fratrem quoque suum ad eúndem perdúxit. Cum póstea una cum fratre
piscarétur in mari Galilǽæ, ambo a prætereúnte Christo Dómino ante álios Apóstolos
vocáti illis verbis: Veníte post me, fáciam vos fíeri piscatóres hóminum; nullam
interponéntes moram, et relíctis rétibus, secúti sunt eum. Post cujus passiónem et
resurrectiónem, Andréas, cum in Scýthiam Európæ, quæ ei província ad Christi fidem
disseminándam obtígerat, venísset, deínde Epírum ac Thráciam peragrásset; doctrína
et miráculis innumerábiles hómines ad Christum convértit. Post, Patras Achájæ
proféctus, et in ea urbe plúrimis ad veritátem evangélicam perdúctis, Ægéam
procónsulem, prædicatióni evangélicæ resisténtem, libérrime increpávit, quod, qui
judex hóminum habéri vellet, Christum Deum ómnium júdicem, a dæmónibus elúsus, non
agnósceret.
Tum Ægéas irátus, Désine, inquit, Christum jactáre, cui simília verba nihil
profuérunt, quóminus a Judǽis crucifigerétur. Andréam vero de Christo nihilóminus
líbere prædicántem quod pro salúte humáni géneris se crucifigéndum obtulísset,
ímpia oratióne interpéllat, ac demum hortátur, ut sibi cónsulens, diis velit
immoláre. Cui Andréas: Ego omnipoténti Deo, qui unus et verus est, ímmolo cotídie,
non taurórum carnes, nec hircórum sánguinem, sed immaculátum Agnum in altári; cujus
carnem posteáquam omnis pópulus credéntium manducáverit, Agnus, qui sacrificátus
est, ínteger persevérat et vivus. Quam ob rem ira accénsus Ægéas, jubet eum in
cárcerem detrúdi unde pópulus Andréam fácile liberásset, nisi ipse sedásset
multitúdinem, veheméntius rogans, ne se ad optatíssimam martýrii corónam
properántem impedírent.
Igitur paulo post in tribúnal prodúctum, cum Ægéas crucis extolléntem mystéria
sibíque suam impietátem exprobrántem diútius ferre non posset, in crucem tolli, et
Christi mortem imitári jussit. Addúctus Andréas ad locum martýrii, cum crucem
vidísset, longe exclamáre cœpit: O bona crux, quæ decórem ex membris Dómini
suscepísti, diu desideráta, sollícite amáta, sine intermissióne quæsíta, et
aliquándo cupiénti ánimo præparáta: áccipe me ab homínibus, et redde me magístro
meo; ut per te me recípiat, qui per te me redémit. Itaque cruci affíxus est: in qua
bíduum vivus pendens, et Christi fidem prædicáre nunquam intermíttens, ad eum
migrávit, cujus mortis similitúdinem concupíerat. Ejus ossa primum Constantíno
imperatóre Constantinópolim, deínde Amálphim transláta sunt. Caput, Pio secúndo
Pontífice, Romam allátum, in basílica sancti Petri collocátum est.
en: >-
The Apostle Andrew was born at Bethsaida, a town of Galilee, and was the brother of
Peter. He was a disciple of John the Baptist, and heard him say of Christ, Behold the
Lamb of God, whereupon he immediately followed Jesus, bringing his brother also with
him. Some while after, they were both fishing in the Sea of Galilee, and the Lord
Christ, going by, called them both, before any other of the Apostles, in the words,
Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men. They made no delay, but left their
nets, and followed Him. After the death and Resurrection of Christ, Andrew was
allotted Scythia as the province of his preaching, and, after labouring there, he
went through Epirus and Thrace, where he turned vast multitudes to Christ by his
teaching and miracles. Finally he went to Patras in Achaia, and there also he
brought many to the knowledge of Gospel truth. Aegeas the Pro-consul resisted the
preaching of the Gospel, and the Apostle freely rebuked him, bidding him know that
while he held himself a judge of his fellow men, he was himself hindered by devils
from knowing Christ our God, the Judge of all.
Then Egeas, being angry, answered him, Boast no more of this thy Christ. He spake
words even such as thine, but they availed Him not, and He was crucified by the
Jews. Whereto Andrew boldly answered that Christ had given Himself up to die for
man's salvation; but the Pro-consul blasphemously interrupted him, and bade him look
to himself, and sacrifice to the gods. Then said Andrew, We have an altar, whereon
day by day I offer up to God, the Almighty, the One, and the True, not the flesh of
bulls nor the blood of goats, but a Lamb without spot; and when all they that believe
have eaten of the Flesh Thereof, the Lamb That was slain abideth whole and liveth.
Then Aegeas being filled with wrath, bound the Apostle in prison. Now, the people
would have delivered him, but he himself calmed the multitude, and earnestly
besought them not to take away from him the crown of martyrdom, for which he longed
and which was now drawing near.
Come a short while after, he was brought before the judgment-seat, where he
extolled the mystery of the cross, and rebuked Aegeas for his ungodliness. Then
Aegeas could bear with him no longer, but commanded him to be crucified, in
imitation of Christ. Andrew, then, was led to the place of martyrdom, and, as soon
as he came in sight of the cross, he cried out, O precious cross, which the Members
of my Lord have made so goodly, how long have I desired thee! how warmly have I
loved thee! how constantly have I sought thee! And, now that thou art come to me, how
is my soul drawn to thee! Welcome me from among men, and join me again to my Master,
that as by thee He redeemed me, so by thee also He may take me unto Himself. So he
was fastened to the cross, whereon he hung living for two days, during which time he
ceased not to preach the faith of Christ, and, finally, passed into the Presence of
Him the likeness of Whose death he had loved so well. Under the Emperor Constantine
the bones of the Apostle were first taken to Constantinople, whence they were
afterwards brought to Amalfi. In the Pontificate of Pope Pius II his head was carried
to Rome, where it is kept in the Basilica of St. Peter.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "Pope St. Gregory the Great, Homily 5 on the Gospels (on Matt 4:18-22)"
text:
la: >-
Audístis, fratres caríssimi, quia ad uníus jussiónis vocem Petrus et Andréas
relíctis rétibus secúti sunt Redemptórem. Nulla vero hunc fácere adhuc mirácula
víderant, nihil ab eo de prǽmio ætérnæ retributiónis audíerant: et tamen ad unum
Dómini præcéptum hoc quod possidére videbántur, oblíti sunt. Quanta nos ejus
mirácula vidémus, quot flagéllis afflígimur, quantis minárum asperitátibus
deterrémur, et tamen vocántem sequi contémnimus.
In cælo jam sedet, qui de conversióne nos ádmonet; jam jugo fídei colla géntium
súbdidit, jam mundi glóriam stravit, jam ruínis ejus crebrescéntibus, distrícti sui
judícii diem propinquántem denúntiat: et tamen supérba mens nostra adhuc non vult
hoc sponte desérere, quod cotídie perdit invíta. Quid ergo, fratres caríssimi, quid
in ejus judício dictúri sumus, qui ab amóre præséntis sǽculi nec præcéptis
fléctimur, nec verbéribus emendámur?
en: >-
Dearly beloved brethren, ye hear how that Peter and Andrew, having once heard the
Lord call them, left their nets, and followed their Saviour. As yet they had seen
none of His miracles, as yet they had received no promise of their exceeding and
eternal reward; nevertheless, at one word of the Lord they forgot all those things
which they seemed to have. We have seen many of His miracles; we have received many
of His gracious chastenings; many times hath He warned us of the wrath to come; and
yet Christ calleth and we do not follow.
He who calleth us to be converted is now enthroned in heaven; He hath broken the
necks of the Gentiles to the yoke of the faith, He hath laid low the glory of the
world, and the wrecks thereof, falling ever more and more to decay, do preach unto us
that the coming of that day when He is to be revealed as our Judge is drawing nigh;
and yet, so stubborn is our mind, that we will not yet freely abandon that which,
will we, nill we, we lose day by day. Dearly beloved brethren, what shall we answer
at His judgment-seat, we whom no lessons can persuade, and no stripes can break of
the love of this present world?
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Cecilia, Virgin, Martyr (Nov 22) —
# SanctiM/11-22.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/11-22`) with no
# Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own vita is sourced from the
# Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see memory
# vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/11-22.txt, English/Sancti/11-22.txt.
# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no genuine
# source break. No responsory given in the source.
id: st-cecilia
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Cæcília, Virgo Romana, nobili genere nata, a prima ætate christianæ fidei præceptis
instituta, virginitátem suam Deo vovit. Sed, cum póstea, contra suam voluntátem,
data esset in matrimónium Valeriáno, prima nuptiárum nocte hunc cum eo sermónem
hábuit: Ego, Valeriane, in Angeli tutela sum, qui virginitátem meam custódit; quare
ne quid in me committas, quo ira Dei in te concitétur. Quibus verbis commótus
Valerianus, illam attingere non est ausus; quin étiam addidit se in Christum
creditúrum, si eum Angelum vidéret. Cui Cæcília cum sine baptismo negaret id fíeri
posse, incénsus cupiditate vidéndi Angelum, se baptizari velle respóndit. Quare
hortatu Vírginis ad Urbanum Papam, qui propter persecutiónem in Mártyrum sepúlcris
via Appia latebat, veniens, ab eo baptizátur.
Inde ad Cæciliam reversus, orántem et cum ea Angelum divino splendore fulgentem
invénit. Quo aspectu obstupefactus, ut primum ex timóre confirmátus est, Tiburtium
fratrem suum accersit; qui, a Cæcília Christi fide imbutus et ab eodem Urbano
baptizatus, ipse étiam ejusdem Angeli, quem frater ejus viderat, aspectu dignátus
est. Uterque autem paulo post, Almachio præfecto, constanter martyrium subiit. Qui
mox Cæciliam comprehéndi imperat, ab eáque primum, ubi Tiburtii et Valeriáni
facultates sint, exquirit.
Cui, cum Virgo ómnia illórum paupéribus distributa esse respondísset, eo furóre
concitátus est, ut eam, in ipsíus ædes reductam, in balneo comburi jusserit. Quo in
loco cum diem noctemque ita fuísset ut ne flamma quidem illam attingeret, eo
immissus est carnifex, qui ter secúri ictam, cum caput abscindere non potuísset,
semivivam relíquit. Illa triduo post, sextodecimo Kalendas Octobris, Alexandro
imperatóre, duplici virginitátis et martyrii palma decorata, evolávit in cælum.
Cujus corpus ab ipso Urbano Papa in Callísti cœmeterio sepúltum est, in ejus ædibus
ecclésia ipsíus Cæcíliæ consecrata. Ejus et Urbani ac Lucii Pontificum, Tiburtii,
Valeriáni et Maximi corpora, a Paschali primo Pontifice inde transláta in Urbem, in
eádem sanctæ Cæcíliæ ecclésia cóndita sunt.
en: >-
Cecilia was a Roman maiden of noble birth, trained up from her earliest years in the
teaching of the Christian faith, and who by vow consecrated her virginity to God. She
was afterwards given in marriage, against her will, to Valerian. On the first night
she said to him: Valerian! I am under the wardship of an Angel, who keepeth me always
a maiden. Therefore do nothing unto me, lest the anger of God should be aroused
against thee. Valerian was moved at her words, and dared not to touch her. Also he
added even this, that he would believe in Christ, if he could see the Angel. Cecilia
answered him that that could not be unless he were first baptized, and for the sake
of seeing the Angel he was willing. So she bade him go unto Pope Urban, who was hiding
in the sepulchre of the Martyrs on the Appian Way on account of the persecution. And
he went unto him and was baptized.
Whence he came back to Cecilia, and found her praying, and the Angel with her,
shining from the glory of God. As soon as he had recovered from the shock of wonder
and fear, he brought his brother Tiburtius, and Cecilia taught him Christ, and he was
baptized by the same Pope Urban, and he also was vouchsafed to see the Angel whom his
brother had seen. A little while after, both of them bravely suffered martyrdom under
the Praefect Almachius, who then caused Cecilia to be taken, and asked of her, first
of all, where was the property of Tiburtius and Valerian?
To him the Virgin answered that all their goods had been given to the poor.
Thereupon he was filled with fury, and commanded her to be taken home, and burnt in
the bath. She was in that place a day and a night, but the fire had not harmed her.
Then was sent the executioner, who gave her three strokes of the axe, and, as he
could not cut off her head, left her half-dead. Three days thereafter, in the reign
of the Emperor Alexander Severus, she winged her flight for heaven, glorified with
the two palms of virginity and martyrdom. Her body was buried in the cemetery of
Callistus by the aforenamed Pope Urban, who also consecrated a Church in her name in
her own house. Her relics were brought into the city by Pope Paschal I, along with
those of Tiburtius, Valerian, and Maximus, and all laid together in the said Church
of St Cecilia.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Chrysogonus, Martyr (Nov 24). No
# genuine SanctiM match: the correct Tridentine file is the suffixed
# `Sancti/11-24o.txt` (the plain `Sancti/11-24.txt` is St. John of the
# Cross instead), and the only SanctiM file for this date bases
# `@Sancti/11-24` (John of the Cross, not Chrysogonus) — a missed
# pre-1955-pool candidate rather than a genuine SanctiM case (see
# memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/11-24o.txt, English/Sancti/11-24o.txt.
# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no
# responsory given in the source.
id: st-chrysogonus
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Chrysógonus, Diocletiáno imperatóre, Romæ inclusus in carcere, ibi biennium sanctæ
Anastasiæ facultátibus vixit; quam etiam, afflictam propter Christum a viro suo
Publio, proptereáque a suis oratiónibus per litteras auxílium postulántem, mútuis
epistolis est consolatus. Sed, cum imperátor Romam scripsísset ut, reliquis
Christiánis qui in vinculis essent interfectis, Chrysógonus Aquilejam ad se
mitterétur, eo perductus est. Cui imperátor: Accersívi, inquit, te, Chrysógone, ut
honóribus augeam, si modo induxeris ánimum deos cólere. At ille: Ego eum, qui vere
est Deus, mente et oratióne véneror; deos autem, qui nihil sunt nisi dæmonum
simulacra, odi et éxsecror. Quo responso excandéscens imperátor, ad Aquas Gradatas
eum secúri pércuti jubet octavo Kalendas Decembris. Cujus corpus, projectum in mare,
paulo post in littore invéntum, Zóilus presbyter in suis ædibus sepelívit.
en: >-
Chrysogonus was imprisoned at Rome in the reign of the Emperor Diocletian. There he
lived for the space of two years upon the alms of the holy Anastasia. She was
suffering much persecution from her husband Publius for Christ's Name's sake, and was
used to write to Chrysogonus to ask for the help of his prayers, and he in return
comforted her by his epistles. Presently the Emperor wrote to Rome commanding the
rest of the Christians who were in prison there to be put to death, and Chrysogonus to
be sent to himself at Aquileia. When he was brought thither, he said unto him: I have
sent for thee, O Chrysogonus, that I may increase thine honours, if only thou wilt
bring thy mind to worship the gods. Thereto Chrysogonus answered: With my mind and
with my prayers I worship Him Who is God indeed, but such gods as are nothing but
images of devils, them I hate and curse. Then was the Emperor kindled to fury at this
answer, and commanded Chrysogonus to be beheaded at Aquae Gradatae upon the 24th day
of November. His body was cast into the sea, but found a little while afterwards
washed up upon the shore, and the Priest Zoilus took it and buried it in his own
house.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Clement I, Pope, Martyr (Nov 23,
# sharing the date with St. Felicitas — see st-felicitas.yml) —
# SanctiM/11-23.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/11-23`) with no
# Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own vita is sourced from the
# Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see memory
# vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/11-23.txt, English/Sancti/11-23.txt.
# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no genuine
# source break. No responsory given in the source.
id: st-clement
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Clemens, Románus, Faustíni fílius, de regióne Cǽlii montis, discípulus beáti Petri,
cujus méminit Paulus scribens ad Philippénses: Etiam rogo et te, germáne compar,
ádjuva illas quæ mecum laboravérunt in Evangélio, cum Cleménte et céteris
adjutóribus meis, quorum nómina sunt in libro vitæ. Hic septem Urbis regiónes
divísit septem notáriis, síngulas síngulis attríbuens, qui passiónes Mártyrum et
res ab eis gestas, diligentíssime conquisítas, lítteris mandárent. Multa scripsit et
ipse accuráte et salutáriter, quibus christiánam religiónem illustrávit.
Cum autem doctrína ac vitæ sanctitáte multos ad Christi fidem convérteret, a
Trajáno imperatóre relegátus est trans mare Pónticum in solitúdine urbis Chersónæ;
in qua duo míllia Christianórum réperit, qui ab eódem Trajáno condemnáti fúerant.
Qui cum in eruéndis et secándis marmóribus aquæ penúria laborárent, Clemens, facta
oratióne, in vicínum collem ascéndit, in cujus jugo vidit Agnum déxtero pede fontem
aquæ dulcis, qui inde scatébat, attingéntem; ubi omnes sitim explevérunt. Eóque
miráculo multi infidéles, ad Christi fidem convérsi, Cleméntis étiam sanctitátem
venerári cœpérunt.
Quibus concitátus Trajánus, misit illuc qui Cleméntem, alligáta ad ejus collum
ánchora, in profúndum dejícerent. Quod cum factum esset, Christiánis ad littus
orántibus, mare ad tria milliária recéssit; eóque illi accedéntes, ædículam
marmóream in templi formam et intus arcam lapídeam, ubi Mártyris corpus cónditum
est. Ecclésia étiam in eo ínsulæ loco unde divínitus fons manárat, ejúsdem nómine
dedicáta est. Vixit in pontificátu annos novem, menses sex, dies sex. Fecit
ordinatiónes duas mense Decémbri, quibus creávit presbýteros decem, diáconos duos,
epíscopos per divérsa loca quíndecim.
en: >-
Clement, the son of Faustinus, was a Roman, from the quarter of the Coelian Mount. He
was a disciple of the blessed Peter, and is the same concerning whom Paul saith,
writing to the Philippians: And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those
women which laboured with me in the Gospel, with Clement also, and with other my
fellow-labourers, whose names are written in the book of life. He it was who divided
the seven quarters of the city among seven scribes, one to each, whose duty it was to
search out most carefully, and record in writing the sufferings and acts of the
Martyrs. He himself also wrote much, and that most orthodox and healthy, whereby he
clearly explained the Christian Religion.
His teaching and the holiness of his life brought many to believe in Christ, and he
was therefore exiled by the Emperor Trajan to Kherson, in the Crimea, where he found
two thousand Christians, who had been condemned by the same Trajan. There they all
worked in the marble quarries. During their labour they suffered for want of water,
and Clement prayed, and then went up an hill hard by, on the top whereof he saw a
Lamb standing, touching with its right foot a flowing spring of sweet waters.
Therewith they all quenched their thirst, and by this miracle many unbelievers were
brought to believe in Christ, and began to honour the holiness of Clement.
These things moved Trajan to send a messenger to the Crimea, who tied an anchor
about Clement's neck, and cast him into the deep of the sea. After it had been done,
while the Christians were praying on the shore, the sea went back three miles, and
when they followed it, they found a grotto of marble, in form like a temple, and
therein a stone coffin wherein was laid the body of the Martyr. A Church was also
built in the place where God had made the water to break forth. Clement lived as
Pope nine years, six months, and six days. He held two Ordinations in the month of
December, wherein he made ten Priests, two Deacons, and fifteen Bishops for diverse
places.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Felicitas, Martyr (Nov 23, sharing
# the date with St. Clement — see st-clement.yml). No genuine SanctiM
# match: the only SanctiM file for this date bases `@Sancti/11-23`
# (Clement, not Felicitas) — a missed pre-1955-pool candidate rather
# than a genuine SanctiM case (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints,
# vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/11-23cc.txt, English/Sancti/11-23cc.txt.
# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous excerpt of
# Pope St. Gregory the Great's homily. No responsory given in the
# source.
id: st-felicitas
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
source: "Pope St. Gregory the Great, Homily 3 on the Gospels"
text:
la: >-
Beáta Felícitas, cujus hódie natalícia celebrámus, septem fílios sic post se tímuit
vivos in carne relínquere, sicut carnáles paréntes solent metúere ne mórtuos
præmíttant. In persecutiónis enim labóre deprehénsa, filiórum corda in amóre
supérnæ pátriæ prædicándo roborávit; et parturívit spíritu quos carne pepérerat, ut
prædicatióne páreret Deo quos carne pepérerat mundo. Numquid ergo hanc féminam
Mártyrem díxerim? Sed plus quam Mártyrem; quæ, septem pignóribus ad regnum
præmíssis, tot ante se mórtuos transmísit. Ad pœnam prima venit, sed pervénit
octáva.
en: >-
That blessed woman Felicity, whose Birth-feast we are keeping today, had as much
dread of leaving her seven sons living after her in the flesh, as have carnal-minded
mothers of seeing them go dead before them. When she was taken in the strong pains of
persecution, she braced up the hearts of her children by bidding them cleave to the
Fatherland above, and became their mother for the spiritual, as she had aforetime
been for the fleshly life, bringing them forth for God by her exhortation, as she had
brought them forth for the world by her body. And shall I not call this woman a
Martyr? Nay, more than Martyr. The seven whom she trusted to God were seven children
sent before her to death. She suffered first and triumphed last.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Martin I, Pope, Martyr (Nov 14
# on this app's own calendar) — an off-date sourcing case like St.
# Paul the Hermit in the pre-1955 pass (memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints):
# the general Tridentine calendar keeps Martin I on Nov 12 instead
# (`Sancti/11-12.txt`), the date this app's own calendar uses for St.
# Emilian. No genuine SanctiM match at either date: the only SanctiM
# file at Nov 12, `SanctiM/11-12M.txt`, is St. Emilian's own
# (Common-only) file, and the file at Nov 14, `SanctiM/11-14M.txt`,
# bases `@SanctiM/11-02` (All Souls, unrelated) — a missed
# pre-1955-pool candidate rather than a genuine SanctiM case (see
# memory vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/11-12.txt, English/Sancti/11-12.txt.
#
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita.
# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Matt 16:13-19) is a bare
# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given (this day's
# own version of the same Peter's-confession pericope already given
# in full for `chair-of-st-peter-at-rome.yml` in January) — per the
# pre-1955 pass's convention of not transcribing bare incipits, only
# the homily portion is authored (not marked isGospel), combined with
# Lectio8-9 as one continuous excerpt of Pope St. Leo the Great's
# sermon. No responsory given for either reading.
id: st-martin-i
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Martinus, Tuderti in Umbria natus, inítio pontificatus, et litteris et legatiónibus
missis operam dedit, ut Paulum Constantinopolitanum patriarcham a nefaria hæresi ad
catholicæ fidei veritátem revocaret. Qui, Constante imperatóre hæretico fretus, eo
améntiæ progréssus fuerat, ut Sedis apostolicæ legatos varie in insulas relegarit. Quo
ejus scélere commótus Pontifex, coacto Romæ concílio centum quinque episcopórum, eum
condemnávit.
Quæ causa fuit Constanti mitténdi in Italiam Olympium exarchum, ut Martinum
Pontificem interficiéndum aut ad se perducéndum curaret. Igitur Olympius, Romam
veniens, lictori mandat ut Pontificem, dum in basilica sanctæ Maríæ ad Præsepe
Missárum solemnia celebraret, occíderet. Quod ubi lictor aggréditur, cæcus repénte
factus est.
Constanti autem imperatóri ex eo témpore multæ calamitátes incidérunt; quibus
níhilo mélior factus, Theodórum Callíopam ad Urbem mittens, imperat ut Pontifici
manus injíciat. A quo per fraudem captus Martinus et Constantinopolim perductus,
deínde in Chersonesum relegátus; ibi ob catholicam fidem ærumnis confectus,
sextodecimo Kalendas Octobris cessit e vita, clarus miraculis. Cujus corpus, Romam
póstea translátum, in ecclésia conditum est, quæ sanctórum Silvestri et Martini
nómine dedicáta erat. Præfuit Ecclésiæ annos sex, mensem unum, dies viginti sex.
Habuit ordinatiónes duas mense Decembri, quibus creávit presbyteros undecim,
diaconos quinque, episcopos per diversa loca trigínta tres.
en: >-
Martin was born at Todi in Tuscany. At the beginning of his Popedom, he was careful to
send an embassage with letters to Paul, Patriarch of Constantinople, to call upon him
to return to the truth of the Catholic faith from the blasphemous heresy of the
Monothelites. But Paul, being backed up by the heretic Emperor Constans, had become so
rabid, that he sent away the messengers of the Apostolic See into diverse places in
the islands. This crime moved the Pope to gather together at Rome a council of
one-hundred-and-five Bishops, by whom Paul was condemned.
Thereupon Constans sent Olympius into Italy as Exarch, straitly commanding him either
to slay Pope Martin, or else to bring him into his Imperial presence. Olympius
therefore came to Rome and bade a lictor to kill the Pope while as he was celebrating
the Liturgy solemnly in the Cathedral Church of St Mary-at-the-Manger. But when the
lictor went thither, he was struck with blindness.
From that time forth many evils befell the Emperor Constans; but he repented not. He
sent the Exarch Theodore Calliopas to Rome, with command to lay hands on the Pope. By
him Martin was treacherously taken, brought to Constantinople, and sent to the Crimea.
There his sufferings for the Catholic faith utterly broke him down, and he left this
life for a better, famous for miracles. His body was afterwards brought back to Rome
and buried in the Church dedicated under the names of St. Silvester and St. Martin (of
Tours.) He ruled the Church for six years, one month, and twenty-six days. He held two
ordinations in the month of December, wherein he made eleven Priests, five Deacons,
and thirty-three Bishops for diverse places.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "Pope St. Leo the Great, Sermon 2 on the Anniversary of his own Election (on Matt 16:13-19)"
text:
la: >-
Cum, sicut evangelica lectióne reserátum est, interrogasset Dóminus discipulos, quem
ipsum (multis diversa opinántibus) crederent; respondissétque beátus Petrus, dicens:
Tu es Christus Fílius Dei vivi; Dóminus ait: Beátus es, Simon Bar-Jona, quia caro et
sanguis non revelávit tibi, sed Pater meus, qui in cælis est: et ego dico tibi, quia
tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram ædificábo Ecclésiam meam, et portæ ínferi non
prævalébunt advérsus eam. Et tibi dabo claves regni cælórum: et quodcúmque ligáveris
super terram, erit ligátum et in cælis: et quodcúmque solveris super terram, erit
solutum et in cælis. Manet ergo disposítio veritátis, et beátus Petrus, in accepta
fortitúdine petræ persevérans, suscepta Ecclésiæ gubernácula non relíquit.
In univérsa namque Ecclésia, Tu es Christus Fílius Dei vivi, quotídie Petrus dicit;
et omnis lingua, quæ confitétur Dóminum, magisterio hujus vocis imbuitur. Hæc fides
diabolum vincit et captivórum ejus víncula dissolvit. Hæc érutos mundo, ínserit
cælo, et portæ ínferi advérsus eam prævalere non possunt. Tanta enim divinitus
soliditate muníta est, ut eam neque hæretica umquam corrumpere pravitas, nec pagána
potúerit superare perfidia. His ítaque modis, dilectíssimi, rationábile obsequio
celebrétur hodiérna festívitas: ut in persona humilitátis meæ ille intelligátur, ille
honorétur, in quo et ómnium pastórum sollicitudo, cum commendatárum sibi óvium
custódia persevérat, et cujus étiam dignitas in indigno heréde non déficit.
Cum ergo cohortatiónes nostras áuribus vestræ sanctitátis adhibemus, ipsum vobis,
cujus vice fungimur, loqui crédite: quia et illíus vos afféctu monémus, et non aliud
vobis, quam quod docuit, prædicámus; obsecrántes, ut succincti lumbos mentis vestræ,
castam et sobriam vitam in Dei timóre ducatis. Corona mea, sicut Apóstolus ait, et
gáudium vos estis, si fides vestra, quæ ab inítio Evangélii in universo mundo
prædicáta est, in dilectióne et sanctitáte permanserit. Nam licet omnem Ecclésiam,
quæ in toto est orbe terrárum, cunctis oporteat florere virtútibus; vos tamen
præcipue inter ceteros pópulos decet meritis pietátis excellere, quos in ipsa
apostolicæ petræ arce fundatos, et Dóminus noster Jesus Christus cum ómnibus redémit,
et beátus Apóstolus Petrus præ ómnibus erudívit.
en: >-
When the Lord, as we read in the Evangelist, asked His disciples: Who did men, amid
their diverse speculations, believe that He, the Son of Man, was; blessed Peter
answered and said: Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered
and said unto him: Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not
revealed it unto thee, but My Father, Which is in heaven: and I say also unto thee,
that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell
shall not prevail against it; and I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of
heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and
whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Thus therefore
standeth the ordinance of the Truth, and blessed Peter, abiding still that firm rock
which God hath made him, hath never lost that right to rule in the Church which God
hath given unto him.
In the universal Church it is Peter that doth still say every day, Thou art the
Christ, the Son of the living God, and every tongue which confesseth that Jesus is
Lord is taught that confession by the teaching of Peter. This is the faith that
overcometh the devil and looseth the bands of his prisoners. This is the faith which
maketh men free of the world and bringeth them to heaven, and the gates of hell are
impotent to prevail against it. With such ramparts of salvation hath God fortified
this rock, that the contagion of heresy will never be able to infect it, nor idolatry
and unbelief to overcome it. This teaching it is, my dearly beloved brethren, which
maketh the keeping of this Feast to-day to be our reasonable service, even the
teaching which maketh you to know and honour in myself, lowly though I be, that Peter
who is still entrusted with the care of all other shepherds and of all the flocks to
them committed, and whose authority I have, albeit unworthy to be his heir.
When therefore, we address our exhortations to your godly ears, believe ye that ye are
hearing him speak whose office we are discharging. Yea, it is with his love for you
that we warn you, and we preach unto you no other thing than that which he taught,
entreating you that ye would gird up the loins of your mind and lead pure and sober
lives in the fear of God. My disciples dearly beloved, ye are to me, as the disciples
of the Apostle Paul were to him, a crown and a joy, if your faith, which, in the first
times of the Gospel, was spoken of throughout the whole world, abide still lovely and
holy. For, albeit it behoveth the whole Church which is spread throughout all the
world, to be strong in righteousness, you it chiefly becometh above all other peoples
to excel in worth and godliness, whose house is built upon the very crown of the Rock
of the Apostle, and whom not only hath our Lord Jesus Christ, as He hath redeemed all
men, but whom also His blessed Apostle Peter hath made the foremost object of his
teaching.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Martin of Tours, Bishop,
# Confessor (Nov 11, sharing the date with St. Menna — see
# st-menna.yml) — SanctiM/11-11.txt inherits the whole day
# (`@Sancti/11-11`) with no Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own
# vita is sourced from the Tridentine track exactly as for a
# pre-1955 saint (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints,
# vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/11-11.txt, English/Sancti/11-11.txt.
#
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita
# (the famous cloak-sharing and death narratives).
# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Luke 11:33-36) is a bare
# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so — per
# the pre-1955 pass's convention of not transcribing bare incipits —
# only the homily portion is authored (not marked isGospel), a single
# excerpt of St. Ambrose's commentary. No responsory given for either
# reading.
id: st-martin-of-tours
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Martínus, Sabáriæ in Pannónia natus, cum décimum attigísset annum, invítis paréntibus
ad ecclésiam confúgiens, in catechumenórum númerum adscríbi vóluit. Quíndecim annos
natus in milítiam proféctus, primum in Constántii, deínde Juliáni exércitu militávit.
Qui, cum nihil habéret præter arma et vestiméntum quo tegebátur, Ambiáni, páuperi ac
nudo, ab eo peténti ut Christi nómine sibi eleemósynam tribúeret, partem chlámydis
dedit. Cui sequénti nocte Christus, dimidiáta illa veste indútus, appáruit, hanc
mittens vocem: Martínus catechúmenus hac me veste contéxit.
Decem et octo annos cum habéret, baptizátus est. Quare, relícta militári vita, ad
Hilárium Pictaviénsem epíscopum se cóntulit, a quo in acolythórum númerum redáctus
est. Post, factus epíscopus Turonénsis, monastérium ædificávit, ubi cum octogínta
mónachis sanctíssime aliquámdiu vixit. Qui, cum póstea ad Candacénsem vicum suæ
diœcésis in gravem febrim incidísset, assídua Deum oratióne precabátur, ut se ex illo
mortáli cárcere liberáret. Quem audiéntes discípuli, sic rogábant: Cur nos, pater
déseris? cui nos míseros derelínquis? Quorum voce commótus Martínus, ita Deum orábat:
Dómine, si adhuc pópulo tuo sum necessárius, non recúso labórem.
Sed, cum eum in illa veheménti febre supínum orántem vidérent discípuli, supplíciter
ab eo petiérunt, ut, convérso córpore, tantísper, dum remítteret morbi vis, pronus
conquiésceret. Quibus Martínus, Sínite me, inquit, cælum pótius quam terram
aspícere, ut, suo jam itínere itúrus ad Dóminum, spíritus dirigátur. Instánte jam
morte, viso humáni géneris hoste, Quid, inquit, astas, cruénta béstia? nihil in me
funéste repéries. Ea in voce, unum et octogínta annos natus, ánimam Deo réddidit;
quam Angelórum chorus excépit, eósque divínas canéntes laudes multi, in primísque
sanctus Severínus Coloniénsis epíscopus, audiérunt.
en: >-
Martin was born at Sabaria in Pannonia. When he was ten years old he went to the
Church, in the spite of his heathen father and mother, and by his own will was
numbered among the Catechumens. At fifteen years of age he joined the army, and
served as a soldier first under Constantius and then under Julian. Once at the gate of
Amiens a poor man asked him for an alms for Christ's name's sake, and since he had
nothing to his hand but his arms and his clothes, he gave him half of his cloak. In the
night following Christ appeared to him clad in the half of his cloak, and saying (to
the angels who bare Him company): While Martin is yet a Catechumen, he hath clad Me in
this garment.
At eighteen years of age he was baptized. He gave up thereupon the life of a soldier,
and betook himself to Hilary, Bishop of Poietiers, by whom he was placed in the order of
Acolytes. Being afterwards made Bishop of Tours, he built a monastery wherein he lived
in holiness for a while in company of four-score monks. At the last he fell sick of a
grievous fever at Cande, a village in his diocese, and besought God in constant prayer
to set him free from the prison of this dying body. His disciples heard him and said:
Father, why wilt thou go away from us? unto whom wilt thou bequeath us in our sorrow?
Their words moved Martin, and he said: Lord, if I be still needful to thy people, I
refuse not to work.
When his disciples saw him, in the height of the fever, lying upon his back and
praying, they entreated him to turn over and take a little rest upon his side while
the violence of his sickness would allow him. But Martin answered them: Suffer me to
look heavenward rather than earthward, that my spirit may see the way whereby it is so
soon going to the Lord. At the moment of death he saw the enemy of mankind, and cried
out: What are you come here for, you bloody brute? You murderer, you'll find nothing in
me. With these words on his lips, he gave up his soul to God, being aged eighty years.
He was received by a company of Angels, who were heard praising God by many persons,
especially by holy Severinus, Bishop of Cologne.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Commentary on Luke, Bk. 7 (on Luke 11:33-36)"
text:
la: >-
Quia in superióribus Ecclésiam Synagógæ prǽtulit, hortátur nos ut fidem pótius
nostram ad Ecclésiam transferámus. Lucérna enim fides est, juxta quod scriptum est:
Lucérna pédibus meis verbum tuum, Dómine. Verbum enim Dei fides nostra est; Verbum
Dei lux est; Lucérna est fides: Erat Lux vera, quæ illúminat omnem hóminem veniéntem
in hunc mundum. Lucérna autem lucére non potest, nisi aliúnde lumen accéperit.
Hæc est Lucérna quæ accénditur, virtus scílicet nostræ mentis et sensus, ut drachma
illa possit, quæ períerat, reperíri. Nemo ergo fidem sub lege constítuat; lex enim
intra mensúram est, ultra mensúram grátia; lex obúmbrat, grátia claríficat. Et ídeo
nemo fidem suam intra mensúram legis inclúdat, sed ad Ecclésiam cónferat, in qua
septifórmis Spíritus relúcet grátia, quam Princeps ille sacerdótum fulgóre supérnæ
divinitátis illúminat, ne eam legis umbra restínguat. Dénique lucérna illa, quam
matutínis vespertinísque tempóribus, ritu véteri Judæórum, princeps sacerdótum
solébat accéndere, velut sub módio sita legis, evánuit; et cívitas illa Jerúsalem quæ
in terris est, quæ occídit prophétas, quasi in conválle fletus pósita delitéscit.
Illa autem Jerúsalem quæ in cælo est, in qua mílitat fides nostra, in illo altíssimo
ómnium locáta monte, hoc est Christo, non potest ténebris et ruínis hujus mundi
abscóndi; sed fulgens candóre Solis ætérni, luce nos grátiæ spiritális illúminat.
en: >-
In that which goeth before, Christ hath set the Church before the synagogue, and He
exhorteth us rather to trust in the Church. The candle is faith, even as it is
written: thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Our faith is the
word of God. The word of God is light. Faith is the candle. It is written concerning
the Word of God, that That was the true Light, Which lighteth every man that cometh
into this world. But a candle cannot shine, unless it be lighted from some other fire.
Also it is written: What woman, having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece,
doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?
And here the candle lighted to find the lost piece is the strength in our
understandings and affections. Let no man therefore seek faith under the law. For the
law is by measure, but grace without measure; the law overshadoweth, but grace
enlighteneth. And therefore let no man shut up his faith within the measure of the
law, but give it unto the Church, wherein shineth the sevenfold grace of the Spirit,
and whereon the Divine glory of the Great High Priest doth strike from heaven, lest the
shadow of the law should rest any more at all upon her. Under the old law there was
the sevenfold lamp which the Priest of the Jews lighted every morning and every
evening, and this was as it were a candle put under a bushel. That Jerusalem which is
upon earth, that Jerusalem which killed the Prophets, lieth hid, as it were, in a dark
place in the valley of tears. But that Jerusalem which is in heaven, whereof by faith
we are soldiers, is a city set upon the highest of all mountains, even upon Christ.
Her the darkness and tempests of earth cannot hide, but she blazeth with the glory of
the Eternal Sun, and maketh to fall upon us the light of spiritual grace.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Menna, Martyr (Nov 11, sharing the
# date with St. Martin of Tours — see st-martin-of-tours.yml). No
# genuine SanctiM match: the only SanctiM file for this date bases
# `@Sancti/11-11` (Martin, not Menna) — a missed pre-1955-pool
# candidate rather than a genuine SanctiM case (see memory
# vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/11-11cc.txt, English/Sancti/11-11cc.txt.
# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no
# responsory given in the source.
id: st-menna
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Mennas Ægýptius, christiánus miles, in persecutióne Diocletiáni et Maximiáni
imperatórum, cum pœniténtiæ causa in solitúdinem secessísset, natáli die
imperatórum, quo pópulus célebri spectáculo tenebátur, in theátrum prosíliens,
líbera voce Gentílium superstitiónem insectabátur. Quam ob rem comprehénsus, et,
Pyrrho prǽside, in metrópoli Cottiénsium Phrýgiæ vinctus, loris crudéliter cœditur.
Deínde, equúleo tortus, lampádibus ardéntibus ad corpus admótis plagísque cilício
confricátis, tum per tríbulos et virgas férreas mánibus ac pédibus colligátis
tractus, plumbátis étiam contúsus, demum gládio interfícitur in ignémque conjícitur.
Corpus, inde a Christiánis eréptum, sepúltum est ac póstea Constantinópolim
translátum.
en: >-
Mennas was a Christian Egyptian soldier who had withdrawn himself into a desert place
to do penance, but one day, during the persecution under the Emperors Diocletian and
Maximian, upon the said Emperors' birthday, when the people were gathered together at
a great show, stood forth in the theatre, and reviled with a loud voice the idolatries
of the Gentiles. Thereupon he was arrested, and being bound at Cotyasus, the chief city
of Phrygia, under the authority of the President Pyrrhus, was first savagely lashed
with thongs, then racked, then scarified with fire applied to his naked body, then had
his wounds lacerated by rubbing with hair-cloth, then dragged through thorns and iron
spikes with hands and feet tied, then lashed again with whips loaded with lead, and
lastly slain with the sword, and thrown into a fire. The Christians saved his body
thence and buried it, and it hath in after times been carried to Constantinople.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Peter of Alexandria, Bishop,
# Martyr (Nov 26, sharing the date with St. Silvester Abbot — see
# st-silvester-abbot.yml). No genuine SanctiM match: the correct
# Tridentine file is the suffixed `Sancti/11-26t.txt` (the plain
# `Sancti/11-26.txt` is St. Silvester Abbot instead), and no SanctiM
# file exists for this suffix — a missed pre-1955-pool candidate
# rather than a genuine SanctiM case (see memory
# vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/11-26t.txt, English/Sancti/11-26t.txt.
# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no
# responsory given in the source.
id: st-peter-of-alexandria
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Petrus, epíscopus Alexandríæ, post Theonam virum sanctíssimum, sanctitátis et
doctrinæ splendore non solum illustravit Ægyptum, sed toti luxit Ecclésiæ Dei. Qui
in persecutióne Maximiáni Galerii illam témporum acerbitátem ita pértulit, ut
multi, admirábilem ejus patiéntiam intuéntes, plurimum in christiana virtúte
proficerent. Is primus Aríum diaconum Alexandrinum, propter schisma Meletianum cui
favebat, a fidelium communióne sejunxit. Ad eum, cápitis ab eodem Maximiáno
damnátum, in carcere cum Achillas et Alexander presbyteri deprecatores Aríi
venissent, respóndit, noctu apparuísse sibi Jesum veste discissa, causamque rei
sciscitanti dixisse: Aríus vestem meam, quæ est Ecclésia, dilaceravit. Quibus étiam
prædícens fore, ut sibi in episcopatu succéderent, præcepit ne umquam Aríum in
communiónem recíperent, quem Deo mortuum esse sciret. Et hanc divinam
prænotiónem veram fuísse, non diu post rei probavit eventus. Denique, duodecimo sui
episcopátus anno, sexto Kalendas Decembris, abscisso cápite, ad martyrii corónam
evolávit.
en: >-
This Peter succeeded that eminent Saint, Theonas, as Pope of Alexandria, and the
glory of his holiness and teaching hath enlightened not Egypt only, but the whole
Church of God. The wondrous patience wherewith he bore the roughness of the times in
the persecution under Maximian Galerius caused many greatly to increase in Christian
graces. He was the first who cut off Arius, then a Deacon of Alexandria, from the
Communion of the faithful, on account of his leaning to the Meletian schism. He was
condemned to death by Maximian, and was in prison when there came to him the two
Priests Achilles and Alexander to plead for Arius, but Peter told them that Jesus had
appeared to him in the night clad in a rent garment, and when he asked what was
thereby signified, had said unto him: Arius hath torn My vesture, which is the
Church. Also, he foretold to them that they should be Popes of Alexandria after him,
and strictly commanded them never to receive Arius into Communion, because he knew
him to be dead in the sight of God. That this was a true prophecy the event did
shortly prove. At length, in the twelfth year of his papacy, upon the 26th day of
November, his head was cut off, and he went hence to receive the crown of his
testimony.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Pontian, Pope, Martyr (Nov 19,
# sharing the date with St. Odo — no reading authored for that feast,
# it turns out Common-only, see memory vu_matins_sanctim_saints). No
# genuine SanctiM match: the correct Tridentine file is the suffixed
# `Sancti/11-19o.txt` (the plain `Sancti/11-19.txt` is St. Elizabeth
# of Hungary instead), and the only SanctiM file for this date,
# `SanctiM/11-19M.txt`, is St. Odo's own Common-only file — a missed
# pre-1955-pool candidate rather than a genuine SanctiM case (see
# memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/11-19o.txt, English/Sancti/11-19o.txt.
# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no
# responsory given in the source.
id: st-pontian
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Pontianus, Romanus, præfuit Ecclésiæ Alexandro imperatóre; qui sanctum Pontificem,
propter christianæ fidei confessiónem, in Sardiniam insulam cum Hippólyto presbytero
relegávit. Ubi is, pro Christi fide multis calamitátibus afflíctus, tertio Kalendas
Novembris e vita migrávit. Ejus corpus, Fabiáno Pontifice, cum clero Romam delátum,
in cœmeterio Callísti via Appia sepelítur. Sedit annos quatuor, menses quatuor, dies
viginti quinque. Fecit ordinatiónes duas mense Decembri, quibus creávit presbyteros
sex, diaconos quinque, episcopos per diversa loca sex.
en: >-
Pontian was a Roman, who ruled the Church in the reign of the Emperor Alexander. This
Emperor banished him into the Island of Sardinia, along with the Priest Hippolytus,
on account of their profession of the Christian faith. There he endured many
hardships because of his belief in Christ, and departed this life upon the 19th day
of November. His body was brought to Rome by Pope Fabian and his clergy, and buried
in the cemetery of Kallistus, upon the Appian Way. He sat in the seat of Peter four
years, four months, and twenty-five days. He held two Ordinations in the month of
December, wherein he made six Priests, five Deacons, and six Bishops for diverse
places.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Silvester, Abbot (Nov 26, sharing
# the date with St. Peter of Alexandria — see st-peter-of-alexandria.yml)
# — SanctiM/11-26.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/11-26`) with no
# Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own vita is sourced from the
# Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see memory
# vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/11-26.txt, English/Sancti/11-26.txt.
# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no genuine
# source break. No responsory given in the source.
id: st-silvester-abbot
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Silvester, Auximi in Piceno nobili genere ortus, statim puerílem ætátem litteris ac
bonis móribus mirifice exornavit. Adoléscens, Bonóniam ad stúdia jurisprudéntiæ
missus a patre, cum sacris litteris, a Deo mónitus, dedísset operam, parentis
incurrit indignatiónem; quam æquo animo toto decennio pértulit. Ob egregiam ejus
virtútem a canonicis cathedralis Auximanæ ecclésiæ socius honoris eléctus est; in
quo munere pópulo oratiónibus, exemplo et conciónibus opem tulit.
Inter funus nobilis cujusdam defuncti, in aperto tumulo formosi viri suique
propinqui deforme cadáver conspíciens: Ego, inquit, sum, quod hic fuit; quod hic
est, ego ero. Et mox, peracto funere, illa sibi Dómini occurrénte senténtia: Qui
vult veníre post me, ábneget semetípsum, et tollat crucem suam, et sequátur me; in
solitúdinem, majoris perfectiónis studio, secessit, ibique vigiliis, oratiónibus
jejuniisque deditus, crudas tantum herbas in cibum sæpius adhibuit. Ut autem magis
latéret hómines, varias mutavit sedes; ac demum pervenit ad montem Fanum, locum,
quamvis prope Fabrianum, eo tamen témpore desértum, ibique in honórem sanctíssimi
patris Benedicti templum eréxit, congregatiónisque Silvestrinórum fundaménta jecit,
sub regula et habitu in visióne sibi ab eodem Sancto osténsis.
At ínvidens sátanas variis terróribus illíus monachos turbare nitebátur, noctu
monasterii jánuas hostíliter invadens. Sed vir Dei, hostis impetum ita repressit, ut
monachi in sancto instituto magis confirmaréntur ac patris sanctitátem
agnoscerent. Spíritu prophetíæ aliisque donis enituit. Quæ ut semper profúnda
humilitate conservavit, ita contra se dæmonis invidiam concitavit; a quo præceps
actus per scalas oratórii, et prope interimendus, præsentíssimo Vírginis benefício
incolumitáti redditus est. Quod benefícium perpetua et singulari in illam pietáte
commendavit ad ultimum usque vitæ spíritum, quem, fere nonagenarius, sanctitáte et
miraculis clarus, Deo réddidit anno salútis millesimo ducentésimo sexagesimo
séptimo, sexto Kalendas Decembris. Ejus Offícium ac Missam Leo décimus tertius
Pontifex maximus ad universam exténdit Ecclésiam.
en: >-
This Silvester was born of a noble family at Osimo, in Picenum, and in his childhood
was a wonderful example both in regard to letters and good living. When he grew older
his father sent him to Bologna to study the law, but God warned him to give himself to
divinity, and he thereby incurred the wrath of his father, which he bore with
complacency for ten full years. On account of his eminent graces he was elected an
honorary canon of the Cathedral of Osimo, in the which dignity he ministered to the
people by his prayers, his example, and his sermons.
At the funeral of a certain nobleman he perceived in an open grave the disfigured
corpse of a kinsman of his own who had been very comely in his lifetime, and he said
to himself, I am what he was, and what he is I shall be. Straightway after the funeral
he read the words of the Lord, If any man will come after Me let him deny himself and
take up his cross and follow Me. Thereupon he withdrew into the desert to seek after
greater perfection, and then gave himself up to watching, praying, and fasting, very
often taking no food but uncooked herbs. In order, however, to cut himself off the
more from men, he moved from one place to another, and at length came to Mount Fano,
which is hard by Fabriano, but was itself then absolutely uninhabited. Then he built a
church in honour of the holy Father Benedict, and founded the congregation of
Silvestrians, with a rule and dress which were revealed to him in a vision by the holy
Patriarch himself.
Satan envied him, strove to trouble his monks by diverse terrors, and made an hostile
attack by night upon the gates of his monastery, but the man of God so overcame the
assault of the enemy that his monks were the more confirmed in their Institute and
recognised the holiness of their father. He shone with the spirit of prophecy and
other gifts. These things he always preserved by the deepest lowliness, whereby he so
stirred up against him the ill-will of the devil that that evil spirit cast him
headlong down the stairs of his oratory, and went near to slay him, but he was
restored to soundness by the helpful gift of the Virgin. This help he remembered with
an unceasing and singular love toward her until the last breath of his life, the
which breath he resigned to God, famous for holiness and miracles, aged almost ninety
years, upon the 26th day of November, in the year of salvation 1267. The Supreme
Pontiff Leo XIII extended his Office and Mass to the whole Church.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }