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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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Silvester, Abbot (Nov 26, sharing
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# the date with St. Peter of Alexandria — see st-peter-of-alexandria.yml)
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# — SanctiM/11-26.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/11-26`) with no
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# Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own vita is sourced from the
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# Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see memory
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# vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
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# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/11-26.txt, English/Sancti/11-26.txt.
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# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no genuine
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# source break. No responsory given in the source.
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id: st-silvester-abbot
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readings:
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- nocturn: 2
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isGospel: false
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text:
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la: >-
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Silvester, Auximi in Piceno nobili genere ortus, statim puerílem ætátem litteris ac
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bonis móribus mirifice exornavit. Adoléscens, Bonóniam ad stúdia jurisprudéntiæ
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missus a patre, cum sacris litteris, a Deo mónitus, dedísset operam, parentis
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incurrit indignatiónem; quam æquo animo toto decennio pértulit. Ob egregiam ejus
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virtútem a canonicis cathedralis Auximanæ ecclésiæ socius honoris eléctus est; in
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quo munere pópulo oratiónibus, exemplo et conciónibus opem tulit.
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Inter funus nobilis cujusdam defuncti, in aperto tumulo formosi viri suique
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propinqui deforme cadáver conspíciens: Ego, inquit, sum, quod hic fuit; quod hic
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est, ego ero. Et mox, peracto funere, illa sibi Dómini occurrénte senténtia: Qui
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vult veníre post me, ábneget semetípsum, et tollat crucem suam, et sequátur me; in
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solitúdinem, majoris perfectiónis studio, secessit, ibique vigiliis, oratiónibus
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jejuniisque deditus, crudas tantum herbas in cibum sæpius adhibuit. Ut autem magis
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latéret hómines, varias mutavit sedes; ac demum pervenit ad montem Fanum, locum,
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quamvis prope Fabrianum, eo tamen témpore desértum, ibique in honórem sanctíssimi
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patris Benedicti templum eréxit, congregatiónisque Silvestrinórum fundaménta jecit,
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sub regula et habitu in visióne sibi ab eodem Sancto osténsis.
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At ínvidens sátanas variis terróribus illíus monachos turbare nitebátur, noctu
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monasterii jánuas hostíliter invadens. Sed vir Dei, hostis impetum ita repressit, ut
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monachi in sancto instituto magis confirmaréntur ac patris sanctitátem
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agnoscerent. Spíritu prophetíæ aliisque donis enituit. Quæ ut semper profúnda
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humilitate conservavit, ita contra se dæmonis invidiam concitavit; a quo præceps
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actus per scalas oratórii, et prope interimendus, præsentíssimo Vírginis benefício
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incolumitáti redditus est. Quod benefícium perpetua et singulari in illam pietáte
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commendavit ad ultimum usque vitæ spíritum, quem, fere nonagenarius, sanctitáte et
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miraculis clarus, Deo réddidit anno salútis millesimo ducentésimo sexagesimo
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séptimo, sexto Kalendas Decembris. Ejus Offícium ac Missam Leo décimus tertius
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Pontifex maximus ad universam exténdit Ecclésiam.
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en: >-
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This Silvester was born of a noble family at Osimo, in Picenum, and in his childhood
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was a wonderful example both in regard to letters and good living. When he grew older
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his father sent him to Bologna to study the law, but God warned him to give himself to
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divinity, and he thereby incurred the wrath of his father, which he bore with
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complacency for ten full years. On account of his eminent graces he was elected an
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honorary canon of the Cathedral of Osimo, in the which dignity he ministered to the
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people by his prayers, his example, and his sermons.
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At the funeral of a certain nobleman he perceived in an open grave the disfigured
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corpse of a kinsman of his own who had been very comely in his lifetime, and he said
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to himself, I am what he was, and what he is I shall be. Straightway after the funeral
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he read the words of the Lord, If any man will come after Me let him deny himself and
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take up his cross and follow Me. Thereupon he withdrew into the desert to seek after
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greater perfection, and then gave himself up to watching, praying, and fasting, very
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often taking no food but uncooked herbs. In order, however, to cut himself off the
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more from men, he moved from one place to another, and at length came to Mount Fano,
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which is hard by Fabriano, but was itself then absolutely uninhabited. Then he built a
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church in honour of the holy Father Benedict, and founded the congregation of
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Silvestrians, with a rule and dress which were revealed to him in a vision by the holy
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Patriarch himself.
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Satan envied him, strove to trouble his monks by diverse terrors, and made an hostile
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attack by night upon the gates of his monastery, but the man of God so overcame the
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assault of the enemy that his monks were the more confirmed in their Institute and
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recognised the holiness of their father. He shone with the spirit of prophecy and
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other gifts. These things he always preserved by the deepest lowliness, whereby he so
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stirred up against him the ill-will of the devil that that evil spirit cast him
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headlong down the stairs of his oratory, and went near to slay him, but he was
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restored to soundness by the helpful gift of the Virgin. This help he remembered with
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an unceasing and singular love toward her until the last breath of his life, the
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which breath he resigned to God, famous for holiness and miracles, aged almost ninety
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years, upon the 26th day of November, in the year of salvation 1267. The Supreme
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Pontiff Leo XIII extended his Office and Mass to the whole Church.
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status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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