Add December Matins readings for SanctiM-track saints, completing the pass

13 of December's 15 SanctiM-track saints authored (st-bibiana, st-nicholas,
st-ambrose, immaculate-conception, st-damasus, st-lucy, st-thomas-apostle,
st-stephen-protomartyr, st-john-apostle, holy-innocents, st-thomas-becket,
st-silvester-i, st-eusebius-of-vercelli); st-barbara and st-melchiades left
unauthored as Common-only. This is the twelfth and final month of the
SanctiM (Monastic 1617)-track saints' Matins readings pass — 129 saints
authored across the whole year.

Adding St. Eusebius of Vercelli's content surfaces a 3rd Matins lesson on
the existing Advent III Tuesday proof date (Dec 15 falls under his
commemoration); updated matins.test.ts accordingly — the "commemorations
get their own reading" design working as intended, not a regression.

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

TODO.md

@@ -36,8 +36,9 @@ across every hour and content type in this app.
      Matins responsory pool beyond its one seeded book (`isa`). The pre-1955-but-post-1617
      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
+     Monastic 1617 track (`SanctiM/`) is now also done — see "SanctiM-track saints' Matins
-     readings" below — January-November done (116/136), ~29 candidates remain (December).
+     readings" below — all 12 months complete, 129 saints authored, the rest correctly left
+     unauthored as Common-only/no-content cases.
    - 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.
@@ -1363,7 +1364,7 @@ the bible-plan bulk conversion) and `npm run build`/`tsc --noEmit` both pass.
 **Not done in this pass**: the larger pool of saints that *do* have a Monastic 1617
 (`SanctiM/`) track — same authoring shape, separate/older backlog item (see priority §2 above).
 
-### SanctiM (Monastic 1617)-track saints' Matins readings — started, January done (2026-08)
+### SanctiM (Monastic 1617)-track saints' Matins readings — done, all 12 months (2026-08)
 
 The complementary pool to the pre-1955 pass above: saints with a `SanctiM/MM-DD*.txt` file.
 **Method finding, worth recording**: a `SanctiM/MM-DD.txt` file almost always turns out to be
@@ -1546,8 +1547,29 @@ proper text at all in the source): `st-emilian`, `st-odo` — both genuinely Mon
 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
+**December done (13/15 saints, 2 left unauthored as Common-only) — final month, pass
-authoring shape, continue month by month.
+complete**: `st-bibiana`, `st-nicholas`, `st-ambrose`, `immaculate-conception` (two genuinely
+distinct Nocturn 2 sources kept as separate readings — St. Jerome's sermon, and the Acts of Pius
+IX defining the dogma in 1854), `st-damasus`, `st-lucy`, `st-thomas-apostle`,
+`st-stephen-protomartyr`, `st-john-apostle`, `holy-innocents`, `st-thomas-becket`,
+`st-silvester-i`, `st-eusebius-of-vercelli` (off-date, missed pre-1955-pool candidate — vu
+places him Dec 15 via Monastic 1617's own same-day redirect, but his real proper content is at
+the general Tridentine calendar's Dec 16; no SanctiM file exists for him at either date). Left
+unauthored (Common-only, no proper text at all in the source): `st-barbara` (correct file
+`Sancti/12-04o.txt`) and `st-melchiades` (correct file `Sancti/12-10o.txt` — this also corrects
+an earlier wrong "neither Sancti nor SanctiM file" claim about him in memory
+`vu-matins-pre1955-saints`, the same "verify by opening the file, not just checking existence"
+lesson as November's St. Romanus Abbot correction). Adding `st-eusebius-of-vercelli`'s content
+surfaced a 3rd Matins lesson on the fixed Advent III Tuesday proof date (`tests/hours/
+matins.test.ts`, Dec 15 falls under his commemoration) — updated that test's expected lesson
+count from 2 to 3, not a regression: exactly the "commemorations get their own reading" design
+working as intended once real content exists to surface. `npm test` (365 tests) and `tsc
+--noEmit` both pass.
+
+**Pass complete**: all 12 months (January-December) of the SanctiM-track saints' Matins
+readings are now done — 129 saints authored across the whole year, the rest correctly left
+unauthored as Common-only/no-content cases. See memory `vu-matins-sanctim-saints` for the full
+per-month record and the twelve method findings this pass turned up.
 
 ### Bible-plan TSV — bulk conversion done (2026-08)
 

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/holy-innocents.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for the Holy Innocents (Dec 28) —
+# SanctiM/12-28.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/12-28`) 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/12-28.txt, English/Sancti/12-28.txt.
+#
+# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, St. Augustine's
+# sermon — one continuous piece, no genuine source break.
+# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Matt 2:13-18) is a bare
+# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so — per
+# the established convention of not transcribing bare incipits — only
+# the homily portion is authored (not marked isGospel), St. Jerome's
+# commentary (Lectio7's homily + Lectio8-9 combined, one continuous
+# piece).
+id: holy-innocents
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 10 on the Saints"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Hódie, fratres caríssimi, natálem illórum infántium cólimus, quos ab Heróde
+        crudelíssimo rege interféctos esse, Evangélii textus elóquitur. Et ídeo cum summa
+        exsultatióne gáudeat terra, cæléstium mílitum et tantárum parens fecúnda virtútum.
+        Ecce profánus hostis nunquam beátis párvulis tantum prodésse potuísset obséquio,
+        quantum prófuit ódio. Nam, sicut sacratíssimum præséntis diéi festum maniféstat,
+        quantum in beátos párvulos iníquitas abundávit, tantum in eis grátia benedictiónis
+        refúdit.
+
+
+        Beáta es, o Béthlehem terra Juda, quæ Heródis regis immanitátem in puerórum
+        exstinctióne perpéssa es: quæ sub uno témpore candidátam plebem imbéllis infántiæ Deo
+        offérre meruísti. Digne tamen natálem illórum cólimus, quos beátius ætérnæ vitæ mundus
+        édidit, quam quos maternórum víscerum partus effúdit. Síquidem ante vitæ perpétuæ
+        adépti sunt dignitátem, quam usúram præséntis accéperint.
+
+
+        Aliórum quidem pretiósa mors Mártyrum laudem in confessióne proméruit, horum in
+        consummatióne complácuit; quia incipiéntis vitæ primórdiis, ipse eis occásus inítium
+        glóriæ dedit, qui præséntis términum impósuit. Quos Heródis impíetas lactántes matrum
+        ubéribus abstráxit; qui jure dicúntur Mártyrum flores, quos in médio frígore
+        infidelitátis exórtos, velut primas erumpéntes Ecclésiæ gemmas, quædam persecutiónis
+        pruína decóxit.
+      en: >-
+        Dearly beloved brethren, today we keep the birthday of those children, who, as we are
+        informed by the Gospel, were massacred by the savage King Herod. Therefore let earth
+        rejoice with exceeding joy, for she is the mother of these heavenly soldiers, and of
+        this numerous host. The love of the vile Herod could never have crowned these blessed
+        ones as hath his hatred. For the Church testifieth by this holy solemnity, that whereas
+        iniquity did specially abound against these little saints, so much the more were
+        heavenly blessings poured out upon them.
+
+
+        Blessed art thou, O Bethlehem in the land of Judah, which hast suffered the cruelty of
+        King Herod in the slaughter of thy children; who art found worthy to offer at once to
+        God a whole white-robed army of guileless martyrs! Surely, it is well to keep their
+        birthday, even that blessed birthday which gave them from earth to heaven, more blessed
+        than the day that brought them out of their mother's womb. Scarcely had they entered on
+        the life that now is, when they obtained that glorious life which is to come.
+
+
+        We praise the death of other martyrs because it was the crowning act of an undaunted
+        and persistent testimony; but these were crowned at once. He That maketh an end to
+        this present life, gave to them at its very gates that eternal blessedness which we
+        hope for at its close. They whom the wickedness of Herod tore from their mothers'
+        breasts are rightfully called the flowers of martyrdom; hardly had these buds of the
+        Church shown their heads above the soil, in the winter of unbelief, when the frost of
+        persecution nipped them.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 3
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Jerome, Commentary on Matthew, Book I, on Matt 2:13-18"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Quando tulit Púerum et Matrem ejus, ut in Ægýptum tránseat, nocte tulit, et in
+        ténebris: quia noctem ignorántiæ his, a quibus ipse recéssit, relíquit incrédulis.
+        Quando vero revértitur in Judǽam, nec nox, nec ténebræ ponúntur in Evangélio: quia in
+        fine mundi Judǽi fidem, tamquam Christum ab Ægýpto reverténtem suscipiéntes,
+        illuminabúntur.
+
+
+        Ut adimplerétur quod dictum est a Dómino per prophétam dicéntem: Ex Ægýpto vocávi
+        Fílium meum. Respóndeant, qui Hebræórum volúminum dénegant veritátem, ubi hoc in
+        Septuagínta legátur interprétibus. Quod cum non invénerint, nos eis dicémus, in Osée
+        prophéta scriptum, sicut et exemplária probáre possunt, quæ nuper edídimus.
+
+
+        Tunc adimplétum est, quod dictum est per Jeremíam prophétam dicéntem: Vox in Rama
+        audíta est, plorátus et ululátus multus, Rachel plorans fílios suos. De Rachel natus
+        est Bénjamin, in cujus tribu non est Béthlehem. Quǽritur ergo, quómodo Rachel fílios
+        Judæ, id est Béthlehem, quasi suos ploret. Respondébimus bréviter, quia sepúlta sit
+        juxta Béthlehem in Ephrata; et ex matérno corpúsculi hospítio matris nomen accéperit;
+        sive quóniam Juda et Bénjamin duæ tribus junctæ erant, et Heródes præcéperat non solum
+        in Béthlehem intérfici púeros, sed et in ómnibus fínibus ejus.
+      en: >-
+        He took the young Child, and His mother, and fled into Egypt, by night and in
+        darkness; and the darkness of that night was a figure of the darkness of ignorance in
+        which they left the unbelievers from whom they fled. But when they returned into
+        Judaea, we learn not from the Gospel that it was by night, or in darkness; which is an
+        image of that light which will lighten the Jews, when, at the end of the world, they
+        shall receive back the faith, which now lighteneth the Gentiles, even as Judaea
+        received Christ returning from Egypt.
+
+
+        That it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet, saying Out of
+        Egypt have I called My Son. Those who go about to deny the authority of the Hebrew
+        Scriptures, ask where any such passage is to be found in the Septuagint. But, although
+        they find it not there, I tell them that the fact of its being written in the Prophet
+        Hosea can be proved by the texts which I have lately published.
+
+
+        Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the Prophet, saying; In Rama was
+        there a voice heard, weeping and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children. The
+        child of Rachel was Benjamin, and Bethlehem is not a town belonging to his tribe. We
+        must therefore seek another reason why Rachel should weep for the children of Judah, to
+        whom Bethlehem belongeth, as for her own. The plain answer is that she is buried at
+        Ephrath close to Bethlehem, and she is called Mother on account of the resting-place of
+        her earthly tabernacle being there. It is possible also that she is called Mother
+        because the tribes of Judah and Benjamin were joined together, and Herod slew not only
+        all the children that were in Bethlehem, but also in all the coasts thereof.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/immaculate-conception.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for the Immaculate Conception (Dec 8) —
+# SanctiM/12-08.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/12-08`) 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/12-08.txt, English/Sancti/12-08.txt.
+#
+# Nocturn 2 has two genuinely distinct sources kept as separate
+# readings: Lectio4-5 (St. Jerome's sermon on the Assumption, applied
+# here to the Conception, one continuous piece) and Lectio6 (the Acts
+# of Pope Pius IX defining the dogma in 1854) — a real source and
+# topic change, not a split-for-length case.
+# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Luke 1:26-28) is a bare
+# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so — per
+# the established convention of not transcribing bare incipits — only
+# the homily portion is authored (not marked isGospel), St. Germain of
+# Constantinople's homily on the Presentation (Lectio7's homily +
+# Lectio8-9 combined, one continuous piece).
+id: immaculate-conception
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Jerome, Sermon on the Assumption"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Qualis et quanta esset beáta et gloriósa semper Virgo María, ab Angelo divínitus
+        declarátur, cum dícitur: Ave, grátia plena; Dóminus tecum: benedícta tu in muliéribus.
+        Tálibus namque decébat Vírginem oppignorári munéribus, ut esset grátia plena, quæ
+        dedit cælis glóriam, terris Dóminum, pacémque refúdit, fidem géntibus, finem vítiis,
+        vitæ órdinem, móribus disciplínam. Et bene plena, quia céteris per partes præstátur;
+        Maríæ vero simul se tota infúdit plenitúdo grátiæ. Vere plena, quia etsi in sanctis
+        Pátribus et Prophétis grátia fuísse créditur, non tamen eátenus plena; in Maríam vero
+        totíus grátiæ, quæ in Christo est, plenitúdo venit, quamquam áliter. Et ídeo inquit:
+        Benedícta tu in muliéribus; id est plus benedícta quam omnes mulíeres. Ac per hoc
+        quidquid maledictiónis infúsum est per Hevam, totum ábstulit benedíctio Maríæ. De
+        ipsa Sálomon in Cánticis, quasi in laudem ejus, Veni, inquit, colúmba mea, immaculáta
+        mea. Jam enim hiems tránsiit, imber ábiit et recéssit. Ac deínde inquit: Veni de
+        Líbano, veni, coronáberis.
+
+
+        Non immérito ígitur veníre de Líbano jubétur, quia Líbanus candidátio interpretátur.
+        Erat enim candidáta multis meritórum virtútibus, et dealbáta nive candídior, Spíritus
+        Sancti munéribus, simplicitátem colúmbæ in ómnibus repræséntans: quóniam, quidquid in
+        ea gestum est, totum púritas et simplícitas, totum véritas et grátia fuit; totum
+        misericórdia et justítia, quæ de cælo prospéxit: et ídeo immaculáta, quia in nullo
+        corrúpta. Circúmdedit enim virum in útero, sicut Jeremías sanctus testátur, et non
+        aliúnde accépit. Fáciet, inquit, Dóminus novum super terram, et múlier circúmdabit
+        virum. Vere novum, et ómnium novitátum superéminens nóvitas virtútum, quando Deus
+        (quem ferre non potest mundus, neque vidére áliquis, ut vívere possit) sic ingréssus
+        est hospítium ventris, ut córporis claustrum nescíret; sicque gestátus, ut totus Deus
+        in eo esset; et sic exívit inde, ut esset (sicut Ezéchiel fatétur) porta omníno clausa.
+        Unde cánitur in eísdem Cánticis de ea: Hortus conclúsus, fons signátus, emissiónes
+        tuæ paradísus. Vere hortus deliciárum, in quo cónsita sunt univérsa florum génera, et
+        odoraménta virtútum; sicque conclúsus, ut nésciat violári, neque corrúmpi ullis
+        insidiárum fráudibus. Fons ítaque signátus sigíllo totíus Trinitátis.
+      en: >-
+        Who and what was the blessed and glorious Mary, always a Virgin, hath been revealed by
+        God by the message of an Angel, in these words: Hail, thou that art full of grace, the
+        Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women. It was fitting that a fullness of grace
+        should be poured into that Virgin who hath given to God glory and to man a Saviour, who
+        hath brought peace to earth, who hath given faith to the Gentiles, who hath killed sin,
+        who hath given law to life, who hath made the crooked ways straight. Verily, she is
+        full of grace. To others grace cometh measure by measure; in Mary grace dwelleth at
+        once in all fullness. Verily, she is full of grace. We believe that the holy Fathers
+        and Prophets had grace; but they were not full of grace. But into Mary came a fullness
+        of all the grace which is in Christ, albeit otherwise than as it is in Him. Therefore
+        is it said: Blessed art thou among women, that is, Blessed art thou above all women.
+        The fulness of blessing in Mary utterly neutralized in her any effects of the curse of
+        Eve. In her praise Solomon writeth in the Song of Songs: Rise up, my dove, my fair one,
+        for the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. And again: Come from Lebanon, my
+        Spouse, come, thou shalt be crowned.
+
+
+        Not unjustly then is she bidden to come from Lebanon, for Lebanon is so named on
+        account of its stainless and glistening whiteness. The earthly Lebanon is white with
+        snow, but the lonely heights of Mary's holiness are white with purity and grace,
+        brilliantly fair, whiter far than snow, sparkling with the gifts of the Holy Ghost she
+        is undefiled like a dove, all clean, all upright, full of grace and truth. She is full
+        of mercy, and of the righteousness that hath looked down from heaven, and therefore is
+        she without stain because in her hath never been any corruption. She hath compassed a
+        man in her womb, saith holy Jeremiah, but she conceived not by the will of fallen man.
+        The Lord, saith the Prophet, hath created a new thing in the earth; a woman shall
+        compass a man. Verily, it is a new thing. Verily, it was a new work of power, greater
+        than all other works, when God, Whom the world cannot bear, and Whom no man shall see
+        and live, entered the lodging of her womb, breaking not the blissful cloister of her
+        virgin flesh. And in her body He was borne, the Infinite inclosed within her womb. And
+        from her womb He came forth, so that it was fulfilled which was spoken of the Prophet
+        Ezekiel, saying: This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall
+        enter in by it; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore
+        it shall be shut. Hence also in the Song of Songs it is said of her: A garden enclosed
+        is my sister, my spouse, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed, thy perfumes are a
+        garden of delights. Verily a garden of delights, filled with the perfumes of all
+        flowers, rich with the sweet savour of grace. And the most holy Virgin herself is a
+        garden enclosed, whereinto sin and Satan have never entered to sully the blossoms, a
+        fountain sealed, sealed with the seal of the Trinity.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "Acts of Pope Pius IX (defining the dogma, 1854)"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Deíparæ autem Vírginis in sua Conceptióne de tetérrimo humáni géneris hoste victóriam,
+        quam divína elóquia, veneránda tradítio, perpétuus Ecclésiæ sensus, singuláris
+        episcopórum ac fidélium conspirátio, insígnia quoque summórum Pontíficum acta atque
+        constitutiónes mirífice jam illustrábant, Pius nonus Póntifex máximus totíus Ecclésiæ
+        votis ánnuens státuit suprémo suo atque infallíbili oráculo solémniter proclamáre.
+        Itaque sexto idus decémbris anni millésimi octingentésimi quinquagésimi quarti in
+        basílica Vaticána, ingénti sanctæ Románæ Ecclésiæ patrum cardinálium et Episcopórum
+        ex díssitis étiam regiónibus astánte cœtu, universóque plaudénte orbe, solémniter
+        pronuntiávit et definívit: Doctrínam quæ tenet beatíssimam Vírginem Maríam in primo
+        instánti suæ Conceptiónis fuísse, singulári Dei privilégio, ab omni originális culpæ
+        labe præservátam immúnem, esse a Deo revelátam, ac proínde ab ómnibus fidélibus
+        fírmiter constantérque credéndam.
+      en: >-
+        The fact that the Virgin Mother of God had at the moment of her conception triumphed
+        over the foul enemy of man, hath ever been borne out by the Holy Scriptures, by the
+        venerable tradition of the Church, and by her unceasing belief, as well as by the
+        common conviction of all Bishops and faithful Catholics, and by marked acts and
+        constitutions of the Holy See. At length the Supreme Pontiff Pius IX, in compliance
+        with the wishes of the Universal Church, determined to publish it as a truth of faith,
+        on his own absolute and unerring authority, and accordingly, on the 8th day of
+        December, 1854, in the Vatican Basilica, in presence of a great multitude composed of
+        the Fathers Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, and Bishops from all parts of the
+        earth, he, with the consent and jubilation of the whole world, declared and defined as
+        follows That doctrine which declareth that the most Blessed Virgin Mary was in the
+        first instant of her Conception preserved, by a special privilege granted unto her by
+        God, from any stain of original sin, is a doctrine taught and revealed by God, and
+        therefore is to be held by all faithful Christians firmly and constantly.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 3
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Germain of Constantinople, Homily on the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Ave, María, grátia plena, Sanctis sánctior, et cælis excélsior, et Chérubim
+        gloriósior, et Séraphim honorabílior, et super omnem creatúram venerabílior. Ave,
+        colúmba, quæ nobis et fructum fers olívæ, et servatórem a spiritáli dilúvio ac portum
+        salútis annúntias; cujus pennæ deargentátæ, et posterióra dorsi in pallóre auri
+        sanctíssimi et illuminántis Spíritus fulgóre irradiántur. Ave, amœníssimus et
+        rationális Dei paradísus, benevolentíssima et omnipoténti ejúsdem dextra hódie ad
+        Oriéntem plantátus, et ipsi suáve olens lílium, et rosam immarcescíbilem gérminans in
+        eórum medélam, qui pestíferam animǽque exitiálem amaritúdinem mortis ad Occidéntem
+        ebíberant; paradísus, in quo ad veritátis agnitiónem lignum vivíficum effloréscit, e
+        quo qui gustáverint, immortalitátem consequúntur. Ave, sacrosáncte ædificátum,
+        immaculátum, purissimúmque Dei summi Regis palátium, ejúsdem Dei Regis magnificéntia
+        circumornátum, omnésque hospítio recípiens ac mýsticis refíciens delíciis; in quo non
+        manufáctus et vário decóre nitens situs est spirituális Sponsi thálamus; in quo
+        Verbum errántem humánam stirpem revocáre volens, carnem sibi desponsávit, ut eos, qui
+        voluntáte própria extórres facti fúerant, Patri reconciliáret.
+
+
+        Ave, Dei mons præpínguis et umbrósus, in quo enutrítus Agnus rationális peccáta atque
+        infirmitátes nostras portávit: mons, e quo devolútus ille nulla manu præcísus lapis,
+        contrívit aras idolórum, et factus est in caput ánguli, mirábilis in óculis nostris.
+        Ave, sanctus Dei thronus, divínum donárium, domus glóriæ, perpúlchrum ornaméntum,
+        cimélium eléctum, et totíus orbis propitiatórium, cælúmque Dei glóriam enárrans. Ave,
+        urna ex puro auro confláta, et suavíssimam animárum nostrárum dulcédinem, Christum
+        scílicet qui manna est, cóntinens. O puríssima et omni laude et obséquio digníssima
+        Virgo, Deo dicátum donárium omni creaturárum conditióni præcéllens, terra non secta,
+        inarátus ager, vitis floridíssima, fons aquas effúndens, virgo génerans, et mater viri
+        néscia, innocéntiæ thesáurus abscónditus, et sanctimóniæ decus; acceptíssimis tuis ac
+        matérna auctoritáte válidis précibus ad Dóminum ac Deum ómnium Conditórem, Fílium
+        tuum ex te sine patre génitum, ecclesiástici órdinis gubernácula fac dírigas, et ad
+        portum tranquíllum perdúcas.
+
+
+        Sacerdótes justítia, et probátæ, immaculátæ ac sincéræ fídei exsultatióne
+        splendidíssime indúito. Orthodóxis princípibus, qui præ omni púrpuræ aut auri
+        splendóre, et præ margarítis ac lapídibus pretiósis, te nacti sunt diadéma et
+        induméntum ac firmíssimum regni sui ornaméntum, in tranquíllo ac próspero statu
+        sceptra dírige. Male fidas natiónes in te ac Deum ex te génitum blasphemántes,
+        eórum pédibus sternens subícito; subjectúmque pópulum, ut secúndum Dei præcéptum in
+        suávi obediéntiæ obséquio persevéret, confirmáto. Tuam hanc civitátem, quæ te tamquam
+        turrim ac fundaméntum habet, victóriæ triúmphis coronáto, et fortitúdine circumcíngens
+        custódito Dei habitatiónem, templi decórem semper conserváto; laudatóres tuos ab omni
+        discrímine et ánimi angóre éxime; captívis redemptiónem tribúito; peregrínis tecto et
+        quovis præsídio destitútis, solámen te éxhibe. Univérso mundo auxiliatrícem manum
+        tuam pórrige, ut in lætítia et exsultatióne solemnitátes tuas simul cum ista, quam modo
+        celebrámus, festivitáte splendidissímo éxitu transigámus, in Christo Jesu universórum
+        Rege ac vero Deo nostro, cui glória et fortitúdo una cum sancto vitǽque princípio
+        Patre, et coætérno et consubstantiáli et conregnánte Spíritu, nunc et semper et in
+        sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
+      en: >-
+        Hail, Mary, full of grace, holier than the Saints, higher than the heavens, more
+        glorious than the Cherubim, more honourable than the Seraphim, and the most worshipful
+        thing that the hands of God have made. Hail, O dove, bearing in thy beak the
+        olive-branch of peace that telleth us of salvation from the spiritual flood, dove,
+        blessed omen of a safe harbour, whose wings are of silver, and thy feathers of gold,
+        shining in the bright beams of the Most Holy and Light-giving Spirit. Hail, thou living
+        garden of Eden, planted towards the East by the right hand of the Most Merciful and
+        Mighty God, wherein do grow to His glory rich lilies and unfading roses, for the
+        healing of them that have drunk in death from the blighting and pestilential breezes
+        of the bitter West; Eden, wherein hath sprung that Tree of life, Whereof if any man eat
+        he shall live for ever. Hail, stately Palace of the King, most holy, stainless, purest,
+        House of the Most High God, adorned with His Royal splendour, open to all, filled with
+        Kingly dainties; Palace wherein is that spiritual bridal chamber, not made with hands,
+        nor hung with diverse colours, in the which the Eternal Word, when He would raise up
+        fallen man, wedded flesh unto Himself, that He might reconcile unto the Father them
+        who had cast themselves away.
+
+
+        Hail, O rich and shady Mountain of God, whereon pastured the True Lamb, Who hath taken
+        away our sins and infirmities, mountain, whereout hath been cut without hands that
+        Stone which hath smitten the altars of the idols, and become the head-stone of the
+        corner, marvellous in our eyes. Hail, thou holy Throne of God, thou divinest
+        store-house, thou temple of glory, thou bright crown, thou chosen treasure, thou
+        mercy-seat for the whole world, thou heaven declaring the glory of God. Hail, thou
+        vessel of pure gold, made to hold the manna that came down from heaven, the sweet food
+        of our souls, even Christ. Hail, O purest Virgin, most praiseworthy and most
+        worshipful, hallowed treasury for the wants of all creatures; thou art the untitled
+        earth, the unploughed field; thou art the vine full of flowers, the well overflowing
+        with waters, Maiden and Mother; thou art the Mother that knew not a man, the hidden
+        treasure of guilelessness, and the clear, bright star of holiness; by thy most
+        acceptable prayers, strong from thy motherly mouth, obtain for all estates of men in
+        the Church that they may continually tend unto Him Who is the Lord, and God, and Maker
+        of thee, and of them, and of all, but of thee the Son also, conceived without man's
+        intervention; obtain this, O Mother, pilot them to the harbour of peace.
+
+
+        Be it thine to clothe God's priests with righteousness, and to make them shout aloud
+        for joy in approved and stainless, and upright and glorious faith. thine be it to
+        guide in peace the sceptres of orthodox princes, even of princes who put their trust in
+        thee to be the crown of their Majesty, and the Royal Robe of their greatness, and the
+        firm foundation of their dominion, more than in purple, or fine gold, or pearls, or
+        precious stones; thine be it to put under their feet the unfaithful nations, nations
+        that blaspheme thee, and the God That was born of thee; thine be it to keep in meek
+        obedience the people that are under them, according to the commandment of God. Behold,
+        this is thine own city, which hath thee for her towers and her foundations, crown her
+        with victory, gird the house of God with strength, keep undefiled the loveliness of His
+        tabernacles, as for them that praise thy name, be thou their deliverer from strife and
+        bitterness of spirit. Free thou the prisoner, protect the wanderer, and if there be any
+        that hath no refuge, be thou to him a consolation. Stretch forth thine hand and help
+        the whole earth so shall we year by year keep this and all thy feasts, and at last be
+        found with thee in Christ Jesus, Who is Lord of all, and verily our God. To Him, with
+        the Holy Father, Who is the Fountain of Life, and the coeternal Spirit, Three Persons
+        and One Substance, even as there is one Kingdom, be glory and strength, now and for
+        ever. Amen.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

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

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Ambrose, Bishop, Confessor, Doctor
+# of the Church (Dec 7) — SanctiM/12-07.txt inherits the whole day
+# (`@Sancti/12-07`) with no Nocturn 2 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/12-07.txt, English/Sancti/12-07.txt.
+# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no
+# genuine source break.
+id: st-ambrose
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Ambrósius epíscopus Mediolanénsis, Ambrósii civis Románi fílius, patre Gálliæ
+        præfécto natus est. In hujus infántis ore exámen apum consedísse dícitur: quæ res
+        divínam viri eloquéntiam præmonstrábat. Romæ liberálibus disciplínis erudítus est.
+        Post a Probo præfécto Ligúriæ et Æmíliæ præpósitus: unde póstea, ejúsdem Probi jussu,
+        cum potestáte Mediolánum venit; ubi, mórtuo Auxéntio Ariáno epíscopo, pópulus de
+        successóre deligéndo dissidébat. Quare Ambrósius, pro offícii sui múnere ecclésiam
+        ingréssus, ut commótam seditiónem sedáret, cum multa de quiéte et tranquillitáte
+        reipúblicæ præcláre dixísset, derepénte púero Ambrósium epíscopum exclamánte,
+        univérsi pópuli vox erúpit, Ambrósium epíscopum deposcéntis.
+
+
+        Recusánte illo et eórum précibus resisténte, ardens pópuli stúdium ad Valentiniánum
+        imperatórem delátum est; cui gratíssimum fuit, a se deléctos júdices ad sacerdótium
+        postulári. Fuit id étiam Probo præfécto jucúndum, qui Ambrósio proficiscénti quasi
+        divínans díxerat: Vade, age, non ut judex, sed ut epíscopus. Itaque cum ad pópuli
+        desidérium imperatóris volúntas accéderet, Ambrósius baptizátus (erat enim
+        catechúmenus) sacrísque initiátus, ac servátis ómnibus ex institúto Ecclésiæ órdinum
+        grádibus, octávo die, qui fuit séptimo Idus Decémbris, episcopále onus suscépit.
+        Factus epíscopus, cathólicam fidem et disciplínam ecclesiásticam acérrime deféndit;
+        multósque Ariános, et álios hæréticos ad fídei veritátem convértit, in quibus
+        claríssimum Ecclésiæ lumen sanctum Augustínum Jesu Christo péperit.
+
+
+        Gratiáno imperatóre occíso, ad Máximum ejus interfectórem legátus íterum proféctus
+        est; eóque pœniténtiam ágere recusánte, se ab ejus communióne semóvit. Theodósium
+        imperatórem, propter cædem Thessalonícæ factam, ingréssu ecclésiæ prohíbuit. Cui, cum
+        ille David quoque regem adúlterum et homicídam fuísse dixísset, respóndit Ambrósius:
+        Qui secútus es errántem, séquere pœniténtem. Quare Theodósius sibi ab eo impósitam
+        públicam pœniténtiam humíliter egit. Ergo sanctus epíscopus pro Ecclésia Dei máximis
+        labóribus curísque perfúnctus, multis libris étiam egrégie conscrípsit, ántequam in
+        morbum incíderet, mortis suæ diem prædíxit. Ad quem ægrótum Honorátus Vercellénsis
+        epíscopus, Dei voce ter admónitus, accúrrit, eíque sanctum Dómini corpus prǽbuit: quo
+        ille sumpto, conformátis in crucis similitúdinem mánibus, orans, ánimam Deo réddidit
+        prídie Nonas Aprílis, anno post Christum natum trecentésimo nonagésimo séptimo.
+      en: >-
+        Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, was the son of another Ambrose, a Roman citizen, and was
+        born when his father was Prefect of Gaul. A swarm of bees settled upon his face when
+        he was in his cradle, which was considered an omen of his future eloquence. He
+        received a liberal education at Rome. He was afterwards, under the Prefect Probus,
+        made governor of Liguria and Emilia, and so came with authority to Milan. Auxentius, an
+        Arian, who had been intruded into the Bishopric of Milan, happening to die, the most
+        violent disputes arose about the choice of a successor. Ambrose came to the church in
+        his official capacity, and urged upon the contending factions, in a long and powerful
+        speech, the necessity of keeping the public peace; whereupon a child suddenly cried
+        out, Ambrose, Bishop, and the whole assembly took it up, and unanimously called for his
+        election.
+
+
+        Ambrose refused, and would not yield to their prayers, whereupon they carried their
+        petition to the Emperor Valentinian. It was very pleasing to this Prince that those he
+        had appointed as judges should be chosen Bishops, as also to the Prefect Probus, who
+        had, as it were prophetically, said to him when he appointed him, Go and govern them
+        more like a Bishop than a Judge. When the will of the Emperor was added to the desire
+        of the people, Ambrose yielded, and received Baptism, (for hitherto he was only a
+        Catechumen,) Confirmation, and Communion, and then the several Orders on successive
+        days, till on the eighth day, which was the 7th of December, the weight of the
+        Episcopate was laid upon his shoulders. Being made Bishop, he showed himself a stout
+        upholder of the Catholic faith, and the discipline of the Church, and turned to the
+        truth great numbers of Arians and other heretics, and, among them, he begat in Christ
+        Jesus that burning and shining light of the Church, Augustine.
+
+
+        After the murder of the Emperor Gratian, Ambrose was sent as an ambassador to Maximus,
+        by whom he had been slain, and, as he refused to repent, the Bishop renounced his
+        communion. After the massacre which the Emperor Theodosius had commanded at
+        Thessalonica, he refused to permit that Prince to enter a church. The Emperor pleaded
+        that he was no worse than David, who had been guilty of adultery and murder, to which
+        Ambrose answered him, As thou hast followed him in his sin, follow him also in his
+        repentance. Then Theodosius humbly did public penance laid upon him by the Bishop. At
+        length the Saint was worn out with his continual labour and care for the Church, (for
+        the which also he composed many excellent books,) and foretold that the day of his
+        death was at hand, though he had not then fallen into his last sickness. As he lay
+        dying, Honoratus, Bishop of Vercelli, heard a voice from God three times crying to him
+        that the hour of Ambrose's departure was come, whereupon he went to him quickly, and
+        gave him the sacred Body of our Lord. When he had received It, the Saint, still
+        praying, with his hands stretched out in the form of a cross, gave his spirit to God,
+        upon the 4th day of April, in the year of Christ, 397.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

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

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Bibiana, Virgin, Martyr (Dec 2) —
+# SanctiM/12-02.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/12-02`) with no
+# Nocturn 2 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/12-02.txt, English/Sancti/12-02.txt.
+# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no
+# genuine source break.
+id: st-bibiana
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Bibiana virgo Romana, nobili genere nata, christiana fide nobilior fuit. Ejus enim
+        pater Flavianus sub Juliano Apostata impiissimo tyranno expræfectus, servilibusque
+        notis compunctus, ad aquas Taurinas deportatus, martyr occubuit. Mater Dafrosa, et
+        filiæ primum conclusæ domi, ut inedia conficerentur; mox relegata mater extra Urbem
+        capite plexa est. Mortuis autem piis parentibus, Bibiana cum sorore sua Demetria bonis
+        omnibus exspoliatur; Apronianus Urbis prætor, pecuniis inhians, sorores persequitur;
+        quas humana prorsus ope destitutas, Deo mirabiliter, qui dat escam esurientibus,
+        enutriente, cum vivaciores vegetioresque conspexisset, vehementer est admiratus.
+
+
+        Suadet nihilominus Apronianus, ut venerentur deos Gentium, amissas ideo opes,
+        imperatoris gratiam, præclarissimas nuptias consecuturæ. Si secus fecerint, minatur
+        carceres, virgas, secures. At illæ neque blanditiis, neque minis a recta fide
+        declinantes, paratæ potius mori, quam fœdari moribus ethnicorum, prætoris impietatem
+        constantissime detestantur. Quare Demetria ob oculos Bibianæ repente corruens, obiit
+        in Domino: Bibiana Rufinæ mulieri vaferrimæ seducenda traditur, quæ ab incunabulis
+        edocta, christianas leges, et illibatum servare virginitatis florem, se ipsa fortior
+        feminæ superavit insidias, et prætoris astus delusit.
+
+
+        Nihil autem proficiente Rufina, quæ, præter dolosa verba, illam quotidie verberibus
+        affligebat, ut de sancto proposito dimoveret, spe sua frustratus prætor, accensus ira,
+        quod in Bibiana perdidisset operam, a lictoribus eam denudari, vinctisque manibus
+        columnæ alligari, eamque plumbatis cædi jubet, donec efflaret animam. Cujus sacrum
+        corpus objectum canibus biduo jacuit in foro Tauri, illæsum tamen, et divinitus
+        servatum; quod deínde Joannes presbyter sepelivit noctu juxta sepulcrum sororis et
+        matris ad palatium Licinianum, ubi usque in præsens exstat ecclesia Deo, sanctæ
+        Bibianæ nomine, dicata, quam Urbanus octavus instauravit, sanctarum Bibianæ,
+        Demetriæ, et Dafrosæ corporibus in ea repertis, et sub ara maxima collocatis.
+      en: >-
+        Bibiana was a Roman maiden, distinguished on account of the nobility of her family,
+        but now far more distinguished for her confession of Christ. In the reign of the foul
+        tyrant, Julian the Apostate, her father Flavian, although he was an ex-Praefect, was
+        branded as a slave and banished to Acquapendente, not far from Rome, where he soon
+        died a martyr for his faith. His wife, Dafrosa, and his two daughters, Bibiana and
+        Demetria, were first imprisoned in their own house, with the idea of starving them to
+        death; but the mother was afterwards taken outside the city and beheaded. Bibiana and
+        her sister Demetria, after the death of their holy parents, were stripped of all they
+        had in the world. Apronianus, Praetor of the city, who hankered after their property,
+        continued to persecute them, but although they were destitute of all human support,
+        God, Who giveth bread to the hungry, fed them, and kept them in health, life, and
+        strength, to the wonder of their enemies.
+
+
+        Apronianus then attacked them, to make them worship the gods of the Gentiles, and
+        promised them the restoration of their property, the favour of the Emperor, and a
+        great marriage for each of them, if they would give way, and, on the other hand,
+        imprisonment, stripes, and death. But neither promises nor threats availed, for they
+        remained firm in the faith, being resolved rather to die than to pollute themselves by
+        doing according to the deeds of the heathen; and, as for the iniquity of the Praetor,
+        they loathed it continually. At length the strength of Demetria gave way, and she fell
+        down suddenly, and died in the Lord, before the eyes of her sister Bibiana. Then
+        Bibiana was put into the hands of an artful woman named Rufina, to seduce her if
+        possible; but she had known the law of Christ from her childhood, and kept the lily of
+        her purity undefiled, triumphing over the efforts of that vile person, and
+        disappointing the lust of the Praetor.
+
+
+        Then, when Rufina saw that her false words availed not, she took to blows, and
+        scourged Bibiana daily, but the saint was not staggered in her holy resolution. At
+        last the Praetor, mad with baffled lust, when he found his labour was thrown away,
+        ordered his lictors to strip her naked, hang her up by the hands to a pillar, and flog
+        her to death with whips weighted with lead. When all was over, her sacred body was
+        thrown out for the dogs to eat. It lay two days in the Forum Tauri, but the animals
+        would not touch it; and, at last, a Priest, named John, took it, and buried it by
+        night beside the graves of her mother and sister, near the Licinian Palace. This is the
+        place where there is still a church, dedicated in the name of St. Bibiana. When this
+        church was being restored by Urban VIII., the bodies of these three holy women,
+        Bibiana, Demetria, and Dafrosa, were found, and were re-buried under the High Altar.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

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

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Damasus I, Pope, Confessor
+# (Dec 11) — SanctiM/12-11.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/12-11`)
+# with no Nocturn 2 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/12-11.txt, English/Sancti/12-11.txt.
+# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no
+# genuine source break.
+id: st-damasus
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Dámasus Hispánus, vir egrégius et erudítus in Scriptúris, indícto primo
+        Constantinopolitáno concílio nefáriam Eunómii et Macedónii hæresim exstínxit. Idem
+        Ariminénsem convéntum a Libério jam ante rejéctum, íterum condemnávit: in quo, ut
+        scribit sanctus Hierónymus, Valéntis potíssimum et Ursácii fráudibus damnátio
+        Nicænæ fídei conclamáta fuit: et ingemíscens orbis terrárum, se Ariánum esse mirátus
+        est.
+
+
+        Basílicas duas ædificávit, álteram sancti Lauréntii nómine ad theátrum Pompéji, quam
+        máximis munéribus auxit, eíque domos et prædia attríbuit: álteram via Ardeatína ad
+        Catacúmbas. Platóniam étiam, ubi córpora sanctórum Petri et Pauli aliquámdiu
+        jacuérunt, dedicávit, et exornávit elegántibus vérsibus. Idémque prosa et versu
+        scripsit de virginitáte, múltaque ália metro édidit.
+
+
+        Pœnam taliónis constítuit iis, qui álterum falsi críminis accusássent. Státuit, ut,
+        quod plúribus jam locis erat in usu, Psalmi per omnes ecclésias die noctúque ab
+        altérnis caneréntur; et in fine cujúsque Psalmi dicerétur: Glória Patri, et Fílio, et
+        Spirítui Sancto. Ejus jussu sanctus Hierónymus novum testaméntum Græcæ fídei réddidit.
+        Cum Ecclésiam rexísset annos decem et septem, menses duos, dies vigínti sex, et
+        habuísset ordinatiónes quinque mense Decémbri, quibus creávit presbyteros trigínta
+        unum, diáconos úndecim, epíscopos per divérsa loca sexagínta duos; virtúte, doctrína,
+        ac prudéntia clarus, prope octogenárius, Theodósio senióre imperánte, obdormívit in
+        Dómino: et via Ardeatína una cum matre et soróre sepúltus est in basílica, quam ipse
+        ædificáverat. Illíus relíquiæ póstea translátæ sunt in ecclésiam sancti Lauréntii, ab
+        ejus nómine in Dámaso vocátam.
+      en: >-
+        Damasus was a Spaniard, a man of eminence and of great learning in the Scriptures, and
+        was elected to the Chair of Peter in the year of our Lord 381; he convoked the First
+        Council of Constantinople, wherein he crushed the wicked heresy of Eunomius and
+        Macedonius. He confirmed the condemnation of the Assembly, at Rimini, which
+        condemnation had already been pronounced by Liberius. This Assembly of Rimini was that
+        in which, to use the language of St. Jerome, Valens and Ursacius brought it about
+        through trickery that the Faith of Nice was abrogated by mob law, and the world
+        afterwards groaned in amazement to find itself Arian.
+
+
+        This Pope built two Basilicas, first, St. Lawrence's, near Pompey's Theatre, which he
+        magnificently enriched, and endowed with houses and farms; and, secondly, another,
+        over the Catacombs on the Road to Ardea. He also consecrated the Platonia, where the
+        bodies of St. Peter and St. Paul lay for some time, and decorated it with elegant
+        inscriptions in poetry composed by himself. He wrote on the subject of virginity both
+        in prose and verse, and likewise many other poems on various subjects.
+
+
+        He ordained that false accusers should be punished for the offences which they had
+        falsely laid to the charge of their neighbours. He established the usage, which
+        already prevailed in many churches, of singing the Psalms, both by day and by night,
+        by alternate choirs, and of adding at the end of each Psalm the words, Glory be to the
+        Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. It was at his command that St. Jerome
+        revised the translation of the New Testament to accord with the Greek text. He ruled
+        the Church for seventeen years, two months, and twenty-six days. He held five Advent
+        ordinations, wherein he ordained thirty-one Priests, eleven Deacons, and sixty-two
+        Bishops for diverse Sees. At length he fell asleep in the Lord, in the reign of
+        Theodosius the Elder, aged nearly eighty years, and full of righteousness, truth, and
+        judgment. He was buried beside his mother and sister in the Church which he had himself
+        founded on the Road to Ardea. His reliques were afterwards taken to the Basilica of St.
+        Lawrence, which is thence sometimes called San Lorenzo in Damaso.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-eusebius-of-vercelli.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop,
+# Martyr — vu places him Dec 15 (Monastic 1617's own same-day
+# redirect; see comment header in
+# src/data/calendar/saints/st-eusebius-of-vercelli.yml), but his real
+# proper content lives at the general Tridentine calendar's Dec 16
+# (`Sancti/12-16.txt`, confirmed via grep for "Eusebii Vercellensis"
+# across all Sancti files). No SanctiM file exists for him at either
+# date — a missed pre-1955-pool candidate, sourced the same way as a
+# pre-1955 saint (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints,
+# vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/12-16.txt, English/Sancti/12-16.txt.
+#
+# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita.
+# Nocturn 3 (Lectio7-9) is a bare `@Commune/C2:LectioN in 2 loco`
+# rubric with no proper Lectio content in either language, so no
+# Nocturn 3 reading is authored here — correctly left unauthored, not
+# a gap.
+id: st-eusebius-of-vercelli
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Eusebius, natióne Sardus, Romanæ urbis lector, post Vercellénsis epíscopus, ad hanc
+        regéndam ecclésiam mérito est créditus divino eléctus judício: nam quem numquam ante
+        constitúti electóres cognoverant, posthábitis civibus, simul ut vidérunt, et
+        probavérunt; tantumque intérfuit, ut probarétur, quantum ut viderétur. Primus in
+        Occidéntis partibus in eadem ecclésia eosdem monachos instituit esse quos clericos, ut
+        esset in ipsis viris et contemptus rerum, et accurátio levitárum. Ariánis
+        impietátibus ea tempestáte per Occidéntem longe lateque traductis, advérsus eas
+        viríliter sic dimicávit, ut ejus invicta fides Libérium summum Pontificem ad vitæ
+        solátium erigeret. Quare hic sciens in ipso fervére Spíritum Dei, cum ei significasset
+        ut penes imperatórem una cum suis legátis patrocinium fidei susciperet, mox cum illis
+        profectus est ad Constántium; apud quem enixius agens, quidquid legatióne petebátur,
+        obtinuit, ut episcopórum nempe cœtus celebrarétur.
+
+
+        Colléctum est Mediolani anno sequénti concílium, ad quod a Constantio invitátum
+        Eusebium concupitúmque, ac vocátum a Liberii legatis, tantum abest, ut malignántium
+        synagóga Arianórum contra sanctum Athanasium furéntium in suas partes adduceret, ut
+        potius diserte statim ipse declarans, e præséntibus quosdam sibi compertos hæretica
+        labe pollutos, Nicænam immo fidem proposúerit iis subscribéndam, ántequam cetera
+        tractaréntur. Quod Ariánis acerbe irátis negántibus, nedum in Athanasium recusávit
+        ipse subscribere, quin sancti Dionýsii Mártyris, qui decéptus ab ipsis subscripserat,
+        captivatam simplicitátem ingeniosíssime liberávit. Quam ob rem illi gráviter
+        indignántes, post multas illatas injurias, exsílio illum mulctarunt: sed sanctus vir,
+        excusso púlvere, nec cæsaris minas veritus, nec enses obstrictos, exsílium véluti sui
+        ministerii offícium accépit; missusque Scythópolim, famem, sitim, verbera, divérsaque
+        supplícia perpéssus, pro fide strenue vitam contempsit, mortem non metuit, corpus
+        carnificibus trádidit.
+
+
+        Quanta in eum tunc Arianórum crudelitas fúerit ac effrons inverecúndia, ostendunt
+        graves litteræ plenæ róboris, pietátis ac religiónis, quas e Scythópoli scripsit ad
+        Vercellensem clerum et pópulum, aliosque finítimos; e quibus étiam est explorátum,
+        ipsórum nec minis, inhumanáque sævítia potuísse umquam eum deterreri, nec serpentina
+        blanda subtilitate ad eórum societátem perduci. Hinc in Cappadociam, postremoque ad
+        superiores Ægypti Thebáidas pro constántia sua deportatus, exsilii rigores tulit ad
+        mortem usque Constantii: post quam ad gregem suum reverti permissus, non prius redire
+        vóluit, quam reparandis fidei jacturis ad Alexandrinam synodum sese conferret, postque
+        médici præstántis instar, péragrans Oriéntis provincias, in fide infirmos ad
+        integram valetúdinem restitúeret, eos instítuens in Ecclésiæ doctrina. Inde
+        salubritate pari digresso in Illyricum, tandemque in Italiam delato, ad ejus réditum
+        lúgubres vestes Italia mutávit: ubi postquam Psalmórum ómnium expurgatos a se
+        commentarios Orígenis édidit, Eusebiíque Cæsareénsis, quos verterat de Græco in
+        Latinum; demum tot egregie factis illustris ad immarcescíbilem glóriæ corónam tantis
+        ærumnis proméritam, sub Valentiniáno et Valénte Vercellis migrávit.
+      en: >-
+        Eusebius was a Sardinian by birth, first a Reader in the Roman Church, and then Bishop
+        of Vercelli. It seemed specially designed by Providence that he should be called to
+        govern that Church, for the electors, who had never before known him, passed over,
+        with a strange unanimity, all their own fellow-citizens, and chose Eusebius, as soon as
+        they had seen him. He was the first Bishop in the Western Church who established an
+        Order of Regular Clergy, to combine the active with the contemplative life. At this
+        time the storm of Arian blasphemy and sin was sweeping far and wide over the West, and
+        Eusebius set himself to fight against it so manfully, that his unshaken faith brought
+        back Liberius again to life and hope. This Pope, knowing that the Spirit of God was in
+        him, sent him with his Legates to the Emperor Constantius, to plead the cause of the
+        Catholic Faith. His earnestness prevailed with that Prince, so that he obtained all
+        that was asked for, and, among other things, permission for a Council to be summoned.
+
+
+        The year following, the Council met at Milan, and Eusebius, by the invitation of the
+        Emperor, and the desire and command of the Papal Legates, attended. Here the Arians,
+        assembled in a perfect synagogue of Satan, and all furiously raging together against
+        holy Athanasius, found Eusebius one of the stoutest enemies of their faction. As soon
+        as he entered the Council, he delivered a long harangue, wherein he remarked that, of
+        those there gathered together, some were notoriously defiled with heresy, and
+        therefore he proposed that everyone should first of all subscribe the Nicene Creed,
+        before proceeding to any other business. The Arians, in a violent passion, refused,
+        whereupon he on his part refused to subscribe any proceedings against Athanasius, and
+        even skilfully procured the withdrawal of the signature of the holy martyr Denys, then
+        Bishop of Milan, which they had lyingly procured by practising on his simplicity. The
+        Arians were now entirely enraged, and, after many persecutions, procured a decree of
+        banishment against Eusebius. The Saint shook off the dust of his feet against them,
+        and, defying alike the threats of Caesar and the drawn swords of the soldiery, accepted
+        the sentence as one of the dignities of his office. He was sent to Bethshan in the Holy
+        Land, suffering hunger, thirst, stripes, and all manner of violence, but for the
+        Faith's sake he despised this life, and feared not death, but freely delivered his body
+        to the tormentors.
+
+
+        He wrote a solemn letter from Bethshan, addressed to the clergy and people of Vercelli
+        and that neighbourhood, full of constancy, devotion, and piety, describing the
+        frightful cruelty and brazen impudence of the Arians. From this letter we know how
+        completely they failed to scare him by their threats and their inhuman brutality, or to
+        seduce him by their serpent-like cunning into receiving their communion. In consequence
+        of his unshaken resolution, he was moved from Bethshan into Cappadocia, and then again,
+        to the deserts of Upper Egypt. He suffered exile until the death of Constantius, after
+        which he was allowed to return to his flock. First, however, he took care to attend the
+        Council at Alexandria, called to heal the wounds of the Church, and, afterwards, like a
+        skilful physician, he made a progress through all the provinces of the East,
+        strengthening those that were weak in the Faith, and confirming them in Christian
+        doctrine. Then, with the same healthful results, he passed through Illyricum into
+        Italy, who, at his coming, laid aside her garments of mourning. After his return, he
+        published an expurgated edition of Origen's Commentary on the Psalms, and likewise of
+        the works of Eusebius of Caesarea, both which he translated from Greek into Latin. At
+        length, distinguished by all these great works, he passed to that crown of glory which
+        fadeth not away, promised to them who suffer for the truth. He departed this present
+        life at Vercelli, in the reign of Valentinian and Valens.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-john-apostle.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. John, Apostle and Evangelist
+# (Dec 27) — SanctiM/12-27.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/12-27`)
+# 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/12-27.txt, English/Sancti/12-27.txt.
+#
+# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading — St. Jerome's account
+# from De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis (Lectio4-5) followed by his
+# Commentary on Galatians anecdote of "Little children, love one
+# another" (Lectio6) — genuinely continuous biographical material, no
+# source break worth preserving as a split.
+# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (John 21:19-24) is a bare
+# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so — per
+# the established convention of not transcribing bare incipits — only
+# the homily portion is authored (not marked isGospel), St. Augustine's
+# homily on the two lives (Lectio7's homily + Lectio8-9 combined, one
+# continuous piece).
+id: st-john-apostle
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Jerome, De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, ch. 9; Commentary on Galatians, Book 3, ch. 6"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Joánnes Apóstolus, quem Jesus amávit plúrimum, fílius Zebedǽi, frater Jacóbi
+        Apóstoli, quem Heródes post passiónem Dómini decollávit, novíssimus ómnium scripsit
+        Evangélium, rogátus ab Asiæ epíscopis, advérsus Cerínthum, aliósque hæréticos, et
+        máxime tunc Ebionitárum dogma consúrgens, qui ásserunt Christum ante Maríam non
+        fuísse: unde et compúlsus est divínam ejus nativitátem edícere.
+
+
+        Quarto décimo ígitur anno, secúndam post Nerónem persecutiónem movénte Domitiáno, in
+        Patmos ínsulam relegátus, scripsit Apocalýpsim, quam interpretátur Justínus Martyr et
+        Irenǽus. Interfécto autem Domitiáno, et actis ejus ob nímiam crudelitátem a senátu
+        rescíssis, sub Nerva príncipe rédiit Ephesum: ibíque usque ad Trajánum príncipem
+        persevérans, totas Asiæ fundávit rexítque ecclésias: et conféctus sénio, sexagésimo
+        octávo post passiónem Dómini anno mórtuus, juxta eándem urbem sepúltus est.
+
+
+        Beátus Joánnes Evangelísta, cum Ephesi morarétur usque ad últimam senectútem, et vix
+        inter discipulórum manus ad ecclésiam deferrétur, nec posset in plura vocem verba
+        contéxere; nihil áliud per síngulas solébat proférre colléctas, nisi hoc: Filíoli,
+        dilígite altérutrum. Tandem discípuli et fratres, qui áderant, tǽdio affécti quod
+        éadem semper audírent, dixérunt: Magíster, quare semper hoc lóqueris? Qui respóndit
+        dignam Joánne senténtiam: Quia præcéptum Dómini est; et, si solum fiat, súfficit.
+      en: >-
+        The Apostle John whom Jesus loved was a son of Zebedee, and brother of the Apostle
+        James, who was beheaded by Herod soon after our Lord suffered. He was the last of the
+        Evangelists to write his Gospel, which he published at the request of the Bishops of
+        Asia, against Cerinthus and other heretics, and particularly against the then
+        spreading doctrine of the Ebionites, who asserted that Christ had had no existence
+        before Mary. It was therefore needful for the Evangelist to declare His Eternal and
+        Divine Generation.
+
+
+        In the fourteenth year after Nero, Domitian stirred up the second persecution, and
+        John was exiled to the island of Patmos, where he wrote his Apocalypse, which hath
+        been explained by Justin the Martyr and Irenaeus. When Domitian was killed, the Senate
+        annulled all his acts, on account of his savage cruelty, and the Apostle returned to
+        Ephesus, during the reign of Nerva. He remained at Ephesus until the time of Trajan,
+        and founded and governed all the Churches of Asia. There, in an extreme old age, he
+        died, in the sixty-eighth year after the Lord's passion, and was buried near the city.
+
+
+        The Blessed Evangelist John lived at Ephesus down to an extreme old age, and, at
+        length, when he was with difficulty carried to the Church, and was not able to exhort
+        the congregation at length, he was used simply to say at each meeting, My little
+        children, love one another. At last the disciples and brethren were weary with hearing
+        these words continually, and asked him, Master, wherefore ever sayest thou this only?
+        Whereto he replied to them, (worthy of John,) It is the commandment of the Lord, and
+        if this only be done, it is enough.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 3
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Augustine of Hippo, Tractate 124 on John (on John 21:19-24)"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Duas vitas sibi divínitus prædicátas, et commendátas novit Ecclésia: quarum est una
+        in fide, áltera in spécie; una in témpore peregrinatiónis, áltera in æternitáte
+        mansiónis; una in labóre, áltera in réquie; una in via, áltera in pátria; una in ópere
+        actiónis, áltera in mercéde contemplatiónis. Una declínat a malo, et facit bonum:
+        áltera nullum habet, a quo declínet, malum; et magnum habet, quo fruátur, bonum. Una
+        cum hoste pugnat; áltera sine hoste regnat.
+
+
+        Una súbvenit indigénti; áltera ibi est, ubi nullum ínvenit indigéntem. Una aliéna
+        peccáta, ut sua sibi ignoscántur, ignóscit; áltera nec pátitur quod ignóscat, nec
+        facit quod sibi poscat ignósci. Una flagellátur malis, ne extollátur in bonis; áltera
+        tanta plenitúdine grátiæ caret omni malo, ut sine ulla tentatióne supérbiæ cohǽreat
+        summo bono.
+
+
+        Ergo una bona est, sed adhuc mísera; áltera mélior, et beáta. Ista significáta est per
+        Apóstolum Petrum, illa per Joánnem. Tota hic ágitur ista usque in hujus sǽculi finem,
+        et illic ínvenit finem; différtur illa complénda post hujus sǽculi finem, sed in
+        futúro sǽculo non habet finem. Ideo dícitur huic: Séquere me. De illo autem: Sic eum
+        volo manére, donec véniam: quid ad te? tu me séquere. Quid enim est hoc? Quantum sápio,
+        quantum cápio, quid est hoc? nisi tu me séquere per imitatiónem perferéndi temporália
+        mala: ille máneat, donec sempitérna vénio redditúrus bona.
+      en: >-
+        The Church knoweth of two different lives, which God hath revealed and blessed: one
+        is the life of faith, the other the life of knowledge; one the life of this
+        pilgrimage, the other the life of the eternal mansions; one the life of work, the
+        other the life of rest; one the life of the journey, the other the life of home; one
+        the life of action, the other the life of contemplation. The one escheweth evil and
+        doeth good; the other hath no evil to eschew, and only an exceeding good to enjoy. The
+        one striveth with the enemy, the other hath no enemies, and reigneth.
+
+
+        The one succoureth the needy; the other is where there are no needy to succour. The
+        one forgiveth them that trespass against it, that its own trespasses may be forgiven;
+        the other neither hath trespasses to forgive nor to be forgiven. The one is chastened
+        with evil, lest it be exalted above measure by good; the other enjoyeth such a fulness
+        of grace that it feeleth no evil, and cleaveth so firmly unto the Highest Good, that it
+        hath no temptation to pride.
+
+
+        Therefore the one is good, but still sorrowful; the other is better and perfectly
+        blessed. And of these two lives there are types, of the one in the Apostle Peter, of
+        the other in John. The one laboureth here even unto the end, and findeth its end
+        hereafter; the other stretcheth out into the hereafter, and in eternity findeth no
+        end. Therefore is it said unto the one, Follow Me; but of the other, If I will that he
+        tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou Me. What is the meaning of these
+        words? who can know? who can understand? what is it? is it Follow thou Me, imitating
+        Me in the bearing of earthly sorrow; let him tarry till I come again, bringing the
+        everlasting reward?
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

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

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Lucy, Virgin, Martyr (Dec 13) —
+# SanctiM/12-13.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/12-13`) with no
+# Nocturn 2 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/12-13.txt, English/Sancti/12-13.txt.
+# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no
+# genuine source break.
+id: st-lucy
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Lúcia virgo Syracusana, genere et christiana fide ab infántia nobilis, una cum matre
+        Eutychia, quæ sánguinis fluxu laborabat, Cátanam ad venerándum corpus beátæ Agathæ
+        venit: quæ ad ejus sepúlcrum cum suppliciter orasset, Agathæ intercessióne matri
+        sanitátem impetrávit. Statim vero matrem exorávit, ut quam dotem sibi datura esset,
+        Christi paupéribus tribui paterétur. Ut ígitur Syracusas rediit, omnem pecúniam, quam
+        ex facultátibus venditis redegerat, paupéribus distríbuit.
+
+
+        Quod ubi rescivísset is, cui eam paréntes contra Vírginis voluntátem desponderant,
+        apud Paschasium præfectum Lúciam, quod christiana esset, accusávit. Quam ille cum nec
+        precibus, nec minis ad cultum idolórum posset perducere; immo tanto magis incensam
+        vidéret ad celebrandas christianæ fidei laudes, quanto magis ipse eam a senténtia
+        avértere conabátur: Cessábunt, inquit, verba, cum ventum erit ad verbera. Cui Virgo:
+        Dei servis verba deésse non possunt, quibus a Christo Dómino dictum est: Cum
+        steteritis ante reges et præsides, nolíte cogitare quómodo aut quid loquámini;
+        dábitur enim vobis in illa hora quid loquámini; non enim vos estis qui loquímini, sed
+        Spíritus Sanctus, qui lóquitur in vobis.
+
+
+        Quam cum Paschasius interrogasset, Estne in te Spíritus Sanctus? respóndit: Caste et
+        pie vivéntes templum sunt Spíritus Sancti. At ille, Jubébo te ad lupánar duci, ut te
+        Spíritus Sanctus déserat. Cui virgo: Si invitam jusseris violari, castitas mihi
+        duplicábitur ad corónam. Quare Paschasius ira inflammatus, Lúciam eo trahi jussit, ubi
+        ejus virginitas violarétur: sed divinitus factum est, ut firma virgo ita consísteret,
+        ut nulla vi de loco dimoveri posset. Quam ob rem præfectus circum ipsam, pice, resína,
+        ac fervénti oleo perfusam, ignem accéndi imperávit: sed cum ne flamma quidem eam
+        læderet, multis tormentis excruciátæ guttur gládio transfígitur. Quo vulnere accepto,
+        Lúcia prædícens Ecclésiæ tranquillitátem, quæ futura erat Diocletiáno et Maximiáno
+        mórtuis, Idibus Decembris spíritum Deo réddidit. Cujus corpus Syracusis sepúltum,
+        deínde Constantinopolim, postremo Venetias translátum est.
+      en: >-
+        Lucy was a maiden of Syracuse, the daughter of a noble Christian family. Her mother
+        Eutychia, being afflicted with an issue of blood, went with her to Catania, to pray
+        before the body of the blessed Agatha. Lucy, by her earnest prayers at the grave,
+        obtained her mother's cure, through the intercession of Agatha, and then immediately
+        begged her to give to Christ's poor the whole dowry which had been set apart for
+        herself. As soon, therefore, as they returned to Syracuse, they sold the property, and
+        distributed the money among the poor.
+
+
+        When this came to the ears of one to whom her parents had betrothed her against her
+        will, he accused Lucy before Paschasius, the Prefect of being a Christian. The Prefect
+        could not move her to commit idolatry, either by his entreaties or his threats; nay,
+        the more he strove to persuade her, so much the bolder did she become in her
+        confession. Then, seeing that he could prevail nothing, words, saith he, will cease
+        when we come to blows. To whom the virgin answered, God's servants will never want
+        words, for the Lord Christ hath said: When ye shall stand before kings and governors,
+        take no thought how or what ye shall speak, for it shall be given you in that same
+        hour what ye shall speak, for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost Which
+        speaketh in you.
+
+
+        Then Paschasius asked her, saying: Is the Holy Ghost in thee? Whereto she answered:
+        They that live in chastity and piety are the temples of the Holy Ghost. Then, said he,
+        I will send thee to be prostituted in a brothel, and get the Holy Ghost out of thee.
+        To whom she made reply: Thou canst not prostitute my will. If thou cause this poor
+        body to be violated, the crown of my soul's purity will be brighter through suffering.
+        Then he bade them take her to the place of shame, but by the power of God it became
+        impossible to move her. Whereupon, being inflamed with anger, he had pitch, resin, and
+        boiling oil poured upon her, and then set on fire. But the fire did not take hold upon
+        her. Therefore he practised many other cruelties upon her, and at last thrust a sword
+        through her neck. When Lucy had received this wound, she began to speak of the peace
+        of the Church, which it should enjoy after the death of Diocletian and Maximian, and
+        presently returned her soul into the hands of God. She testified on the thirteenth day
+        of December. Her body was buried at Syracuse, but afterwards taken to Constantinople,
+        and lastly to Venice.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

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

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Nicholas, Bishop, Confessor
+# (Dec 6) — SanctiM/12-06.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/12-06`)
+# with no Nocturn 2 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/12-06.txt, English/Sancti/12-06.txt.
+# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita (including
+# the famous three-dowries and three-tribunes episodes), no genuine
+# source break.
+id: st-nicholas
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Nicoláum, illustri loco Pátaræ in Lycia natum, paréntes a Deo precibus impetrarunt.
+        Cujus viri sanctitas quanta futura esset, jam ab incunábulis appáruit. Nam infans, cum
+        réliquos dies lac nutrícis frequens súgeret, quarta et sexta feria semel dumtaxat,
+        idque vesperi sugebat: quam jejunii consuetúdine in réliqua vita semper ténuit.
+        Adoléscens paréntibus orbatus, facultates suas paupéribus distríbuit. Cujus illud
+        insigne est christianæ benignitátis exemplum, quod cum ejus civis egens tres filias
+        jam nubiles in matrimonio collocare non posset, earumque pudicítiam prostitúere
+        cogitaret; re cognita, Nicolaus noctu per fenestram tantum pecuniæ in ejus domum
+        injecit, quantum uníus vírginis doti satis esset: quod cum íterum et tertio fecísset,
+        tres illæ vírgines honestis viris in matrimónium datæ sunt.
+
+
+        Cum vero se totum Deo dedísset, in Palæstinam profectus est, ut loca sancta viseret,
+        et præsens venerarétur. Qua in peregrinatióne navem conscéndens sereno cælo et
+        tranquillo mari, horribilem nautis tempestátem prædixit; moxque ortam, cum essent
+        omnes in summo periculo, orans mirabíliter sedávit. Unde cum domum reversus
+        singuláris sanctitátis ómnibus documénta præberet, Dei admónitu Myram, quæ Lyciæ
+        metropolis erat, venit; quo témpore ejus urbis episcopo mortuo, provinciales epíscopi
+        de successore deligéndo consultábant. Itaque in ea deliberatióne divinitus admoniti
+        sunt, ut eam eligerent, qui postridie mane primus in ecclésiam ingrederétur, Nicolaus
+        nómine. Qua observatióne adhibita, in ecclésiæ janua deprehénsus est Nicoláus, et
+        summo ómnium consénsu Myræ epíscopus creatur. In episcopatu castitátem, quam semper
+        colúerat, gravitátem, oratiónis assiduitátem, vigílias abstinéntiam, liberalitátem et
+        hospitalitátem, in adhortando mansuetúdinem, in reprehendéndo severitátem perpetuo
+        adhibuit.
+
+
+        Viduis et orphanis pecúnia, consílio, ópera non defuit; oppressos adeo sublevávit, ut
+        étiam tres tribunos, per calumniam a Constantino Augusto condemnatos, qui se propter
+        famam ejus miraculórum oratiónibus longíssime absenti commendarant, adhuc vivens, cum
+        imperatóri, mináciter eum terrens, apparuísset, liberaverit. Cum vero contra edictum
+        Diocletiáni et Maximiáni christianæ fidei veritátem Myræ prædicaret, ab imperatórum
+        satellítibus comprehénsus, et longíssime abductus, in carcerem conjéctus est; ubi fuit
+        usque ad Constantinum imperatórem, cujus jussu ex custódia ereptus, Myram rediit. Mox
+        ad Nicænum concílium se cóntulit; ubi cum trecentis illis decem et octo Pátribus
+        Arianam hæresim condemnávit. Inde reversus ad episcopátum, non ita multo post,
+        instante morte, suspíciens in cælum, cum Angelos sibi occurréntes intuerétur, illo
+        Psalmo pronuntiato, In te Dómine, sperávi; usque ad eum locum, In manus tuas
+        comméndo spíritum meum; in cælestem pátriam migrávit. Ejus corpus Bárium in Apulia
+        translátum, ibidem summa celebritate ac veneratióne cólitur.
+      en: >-
+        Nicolas was born at the famous city of Patara in Lycia. His parents obtained him from
+        God by prayer, and the holiness of his life was marked even from the cradle. When he
+        was at the breast he never would suck more than once on Wednesdays and Fridays, and
+        that always after sunset, though he sucked freely on other days. This custom of
+        fasting he never broke through during his whole life. While he was still a young man
+        he lost both his father and mother, after which he gave his whole property away to the
+        poor. One particular example is given of his Christian charity. There was a certain
+        needy man in the city who had three marriageable daughters, for whom he could not get
+        husbands, and so thought to make them harlots. When Nicolas heard of it, he went to
+        the house by night and threw in by the window such a sum of money as made a dowry for
+        one of them. This he did a second and a third time, and thus by his charity they were
+        honourably given in marriage.
+
+
+        When he had given himself entirely to God he set forth for Palestine, that he might
+        see the Holy Places, and worship therein. During this pilgrimage he embarked once on
+        board a ship when the sky was clear and the sea calm, but he foretold a great storm,
+        which afterwards arose and raged until the sailors were afraid; and then the saint by
+        prayer stilled the tempest. After he had returned home, and his holy life was known to
+        all men, God bade him go to Myra, which is the chief city of Lycia, at a time when the
+        Bishop had just died and the Bishops of the Province were called together to choose a
+        successor. While they deliberated, they received a warning from heaven to choose that
+        Nicolas who should first come into the church in the morning. In obedience to that
+        warning, Nicolas was seized at the door of the church, and with universal consent
+        consecrated Archbishop. In his great office he was an unceasing model of purity, as he
+        had always been, of gravity, of regularity in prayer, of watching, of abstinence, of
+        charity, of hospitality, of meekness in exhortation, and of sternness in rebuke.
+
+
+        He was the comforter of widows and orphans by money, by advice, and by labour. He was
+        the deliverer of the oppressed, so mightily, that it is related that the Emperor
+        Constantine once unjustly condemned three Tribunes to death, and these unhappy men
+        called upon Nicolas, though living and absent, to save them, who yet appeared in a
+        vision to the Emperor, and forced him by threats to set them free. When the Emperors
+        Diocletian and Maximian published their edict against Christianity, Nicolas did not
+        cease to preach the truth at Myra, wherefore he was seized by the soldiers of the
+        Emperors, carried away from his See, and thrown into prison, where he remained until
+        the accession of Constantine. This Prince set him free, and he returned to Myra. He
+        betook himself to the first Council of Nicea, where he was one of the 318 Bishops who
+        condemned the heresy of Arius. He returned thence to his Bishopric, and, not long
+        after, became aware of the approach of death. When his last moment was come, he lifted
+        up his eyes to heaven, and, when he saw the Angels coming to meet him, he began to
+        recite the thirtieth Psalm, In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust, and when he had said,
+        Into thy hands I commend my spirit, he passed to the heavenly Fatherland. His body was
+        finally removed to Bari in Apulia, where it is kept with great fame and honour.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-silvester-i.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Silvester I, Pope, Confessor
+# (Dec 31) — SanctiM/12-31.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/12-31`)
+# with no Nocturn 2 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/12-31.txt, English/Sancti/12-31.txt.
+#
+# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita.
+# Nocturn 3 (Lectio7-9) is a bare `@Commune/C5` rubric with no proper
+# Lectio content in either language, so no Nocturn 3 reading is
+# authored here — correctly left unauthored, not a gap (same
+# Common-only pattern as several other saints in this pass; see
+# memory vu-matins-sanctim-saints findings).
+id: st-silvester-i
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Silvéster Románus, patre Rufíno, a prima ætáte óperam dedit Cyríno presbýtero; cujus
+        doctrínam et mores egrégie imitátus est. Hic, sæviénte persecutióne, in Sorácte monte
+        latitáverat; et trigésimum annum agens, présbyter sanctæ Románæ Ecclésiæ a
+        Marcellíno Pontífice creátur. Quo in múnere cum omni laude cléricis áliis
+        antecélleret, in Melchíadis póstea locum succéssit, imperatóre Constantíno, qui
+        ántea pacem Ecclésiæ Christi lege pública déderat. Vix Ecclésiæ gubernácula tractánda
+        suscéperat, Constantínum, jam Crucis signo cǽlitus illustrátum, et de hoste Maxéntio
+        victórem, ad tuéndam propagandámque christiánam religiónem impénse fovit. Quem étiam,
+        uti vetus Ecclésiæ Románæ refert tradítio, Apostolórum imágines recognóscere fecit,
+        sacro baptísmate tinxit, et ab infidelitátis lepra mundávit.
+
+
+        Itaque, auctóre Silvéstro, pius imperátor quam christifidélibus públice templa
+        exstruéndi tribúerat facultátem, eam exémplo suo confirmávit. Multas enim eréxit
+        Basílicas, scílicet Lateranénsem Christo Servatóri, Vaticánam sancto Petro, Ostiénsem
+        sancto Paulo, sancto Lauréntio in Agro Veráno, sanctæ Cruci in Atrio Sessoriáno,
+        sancto Petro et Marcellíno ac sanctæ Agnéti in viis Lavicána et Nomentána, et álias;
+        quas sacris imagínibus spléndide exornávit, et, munéribus prædiísque attribútis,
+        magnificentíssime locupletávit. Hoc Pontífice hábitum est Concílium Nicǽnum primum,
+        ubi præsidéntibus ejus legátis, præsénteque Constantíno et trecéntis decem et octo
+        epíscopis, sancta et cathólica fides explicáta est, Arío ejúsdem sectatóribus
+        condemnátis; quod étiam Concílium, peténtibus Pátribus, confirmávit in sýnodo Romæ
+        hábita, ubi íterum Aríus condemnátus est. Multa item decréta fecit Ecclésiæ Dei
+        utília, quæ sub ejus nómine recenséntur: id est, ut a solo epíscopo chrisma
+        conficerétur; ut présbyter chrísmate baptizáti summum liníret vérticem; ut diáconi
+        dalmáticis in ecclésia, et palla linóstima ad lævam uteréntur; ut in líneo tantum velo
+        sacrifícium altáris conficerétur.
+
+
+        Idem præscripsísse tráditur tempus ómnibus, qui ordínibus initiáti essent, exercéndi
+        síngulos órdines in Ecclésia, ántequam quisque ad altiórem gradum ascénderet; ut
+        láicus clérico non inférret crimen, ne cléricus apud profánum júdicem causam díceret.
+        Sábbati et Domínici diéi nómine reténto, réliquos hebdómadæ dies feriárum nómine
+        distínctos, ut jam ante in Ecclésia vocári cœperant, appellári vóluit, quo
+        significarétur, quotídie cléricos, abjécta ceterárum rerum cura, uni Deo prorsus
+        vacáre debére. Huic cælésti prudéntiæ, qua ecclésiam administrábat, insígnis vitæ
+        sánctitas, et benígnitas in páuperes perpétuo respóndit. Quo in génere provídit, ut
+        cléricis copiósis egéntes conjúngeret, et sacris virgínibus, quæ ad victum necessária
+        essent, suppeditaréntur. Vixit in pontificátu annos vigínti unum, menses decem, diem
+        unum. Sepúltus est in cœmeterio Priscíllæ, via Salária. Fecit ordinatiónes septem
+        mense Decémbri, quibus creávit presbýteros quadragínta duos, diáconos vigínti quinque,
+        epíscopos per divérsa loca sexagínta quinque.
+      en: >-
+        Sylvester was a Roman by birth, and his father's name was Rufinus. He was brought up
+        from a very early age under a Priest named Cyrinus, of whose teaching and example he
+        was a diligent learner. In his thirtieth year he was ordained Priest of the Holy Roman
+        Church by Pope Marcellinus. In the discharge of his duties he became a model for all
+        the clergy, and, after the death of Melchiades, he succeeded him on the Papal throne,
+        during the reign of Constantine, who had already by public decree proclaimed peace to
+        the Church of Christ. Hardly had he undertaken the government of the Church when he
+        betook himself to stir up the Emperor to protect and propagate the religion of Christ.
+        Constantine was fresh from his victory over his enemy Maxentius, on the Eve whereof the
+        sign of the Cross had been revealed to him limned in light upon the sky; and there was
+        an old story in the Church of Rome that it was Sylvester who caused him to recognise
+        the images of the Apostles, administered to him holy Baptism, and cleansed him from the
+        leprosy of misbelief.
+
+
+        The godly Emperor had already granted to Christ's faithful people permission to build
+        public churches, and by the advice of Sylvester he himself set them the example. He
+        built many Basilicas, and magnificently adorned them with holy images, and gifted them
+        with gifts and endowments. Among these there were, besides others, the Church of Christ
+        the Saviour, hard by the Lateran Palace; that of St. Peter, upon the Vatican Mount;
+        that of St. Paul, upon the road to Ostia; that of St. Lawrence, in Verus' field; that of
+        the Holy Cross at the Sessorian hall; that of St. Peter and St. Marcellinus, upon the
+        Lavican Way; and that of St. Agnes, upon the road to Mentana. Under this Pope was held
+        the first Council of Nicea, presided over by the Papal Legates, and in the Presence of
+        Constantine, and three hundred and eighteen Bishops, where the holy and Catholic Faith
+        was declared, and Arius and his followers condemned; which Council was finally
+        confirmed by the Pope, at the request of all the assembled Fathers, in a synod held at
+        Rome, where Arius was again condemned. This Pope issued many useful ordinances for the
+        Church of God. He reserved to Bishops the right of consecrating the Holy Chrism;
+        ordered Priests to anoint with Chrism the heads of the newly baptised; settled the
+        officiating dress of Deacons as a dalmatic and a linen maniple; and forbade the
+        consecration of the Sacrament of the Altar on anything but a linen corporal.
+
+
+        This Sylvester is likewise said to have ordained that all persons taking Holy Orders
+        should remain awhile in each grade before being promoted to a higher; that laymen
+        should not go to law against the clergy; and that the clergy themselves were not to
+        plead before civil tribunals. He decreed that the first and seventh days of the week
+        should be called respectively the Lord's Day and the Sabbath, and the others, Second
+        Day, Third Day, and so on. In this he confirmed the use of the word Feria for the
+        weekdays, the which use had already begun in the Church. This word signifieth an
+        holiday, and pointeth to the duty of the clergy ever to lay aside all worldly labour,
+        and leave themselves free to do continually the work of the Lord. The heavenly wisdom
+        with which he ruled the Church of God, was joined in him to a singular holiness of
+        life, and an inexhaustible tenderness towards the poor; in which matter he ordained
+        that the wealthy clergy should each relieve a certain number of needy persons; and he
+        also made arrangements for supplying the consecrated virgins with the necessaries of
+        life. He lived as Pope twenty-one years, ten months and one day, and was buried in the
+        cemetery of Priscilla on the Salarian Way. He held seven Advent ordinations, and made
+        forty-two Priests, twenty-five Deacons, and sixty-five Bishops of various sees.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-stephen-protomartyr.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Stephen, Protomartyr (Dec 26) —
+# SanctiM/12-26.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/12-26`) 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/12-26.txt, English/Sancti/12-26.txt.
+#
+# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, St. Fulgentius's
+# sermon contrasting yesterday's Nativity with today's martyrdom — one
+# continuous piece, no genuine source break.
+# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Matt 23:34-39) is a bare
+# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so — per
+# the established convention of not transcribing bare incipits — only
+# the homily portion is authored (not marked isGospel), St. Jerome's
+# commentary (Lectio7's homily + Lectio8-9 combined, one continuous
+# piece on "Zacharias son of Barachias").
+id: st-stephen-protomartyr
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Fulgentius of Ruspe, Sermon 3 on St. Stephen"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Heri celebrávimus temporálem sempitérni Regis nostri natálem: hódie celebrámus
+        triumphálem mílitis passiónem. Heri enim Rex noster trábea carnis indútus, de aula
+        úteri virginális egrédiens, visitáre dignátus est mundum: hódie miles de tabernáculo
+        córporis éxiens, triumphátor migrávit ad cælum. Ille, sempitérnæ Deitátis majestáte
+        serváta, servíle cinctórium carnis assúmens, in hujus sǽculi campum pugnatúrus
+        intrávit; iste, depósitis corruptibílibus córporis induméntis, ad cæli palátium
+        perénniter regnatúrus ascéndit. Ille descéndit carne velátus, iste ascéndit sánguine
+        laureátus.
+
+
+        Ascéndit iste lapidántibus Judǽis, quia ille descéndit lætántibus Angelis. Glória in
+        excélsis Deo, heri sancti Angeli exsultántes cantavérunt: hódie Stéphanum lætántes in
+        suum consórtium suscepérunt. Heri Dóminus exívit de útero Vírginis: hódie miles
+        egréssus est de ergástulo carnis. Heri Christus pro nobis pannis est involútus: hódie
+        Stéphanus stola est ab eo immortalitátis indútus. Heri præsépis angústia Christum
+        portávit infántem: hódie imménsitas cæli suscépit Stéphanum triumphántem. Solus
+        Dóminus descéndit, ut multos eleváret: humiliávit se Rex noster, ut suos mílites
+        exaltáret.
+
+
+        Necessárium tamen nobis est, fratres, agnóscere, quibus armis præcínctus Stéphanus
+        sævítiam Judæórum pótuit superáre, ut ita meruísset felíciter triumpháre. Stéphanus
+        ergo, ut nóminis sui corónam meruísset accípere, caritátem pro armis habébat, et per
+        ipsam ubíque vincébat. Per caritátem Dei sæviéntibus Judǽis non cessit: per caritátem
+        próximi pro lapidántibus intercéssit. Per caritátem arguébat errántes, ut
+        corrigeréntur: per caritátem pro lapidántibus orábat, ne puniréntur. Caritátis virtúte
+        subníxus, vicit Saulum crudéliter sæviéntem; et quem hábuit in terra persecutórem, in
+        cælo méruit habére consórtem.
+      en: >-
+        Yesterday we were celebrating the birth in time of our Eternal King; today we
+        celebrate the victory, through suffering, of one of His soldiers. Yesterday our King
+        was pleased to come forth from His royal palace of the Virgin's womb, clothed in a
+        robe of flesh, to visit the world; today His soldier, laying aside the tabernacle of
+        the body, entereth in triumph into the heavenly palaces. The One, preserving unchanged
+        that glory of the Godhead which He had before the world was, girded Himself with the
+        form of a servant, and entered the arena of this world to fight sin; the other taketh
+        off the garments of this corruptible body, and entereth into the heavenly mansions,
+        where he will reign for ever. The One cometh down, veiled in flesh; the other goeth
+        up, clothed in a robe of glory, red with blood.
+
+
+        The One cometh down amid the jubilation of angels; the other goeth up amid the stoning
+        of the Jews. Yesterday the holy angels were singing, Glory to God in the highest;
+        today there is joy among them, for they receive Stephen into their company. Yesterday
+        the Lord came forth from the Virgin's womb; today His soldier is delivered from the
+        prison of the body. Yesterday Christ was for our sakes wrapped in swaddling bands;
+        today He girdeth Stephen with a robe of immortality. Yesterday the new-born Christ lay
+        in a narrow manger; today Stephen entereth victorious into the boundless heavens. The
+        Lord came down alone that He might raise many up; our King humbled Himself that He
+        might set His soldiers in high places.
+
+
+        Why brethren, it behoveth us to consider with what arms Stephen was able, amid all the
+        cruelty of the Jews, to remain more than conqueror, and worthily to attain to so
+        blessed a triumph. Stephen, in that struggle which brought him to the crown whereof
+        his name is a prophecy, had for armour the love of God and man, and by it he remained
+        victorious on all hands. The love of God strengthened him against the cruelty of the
+        Jews; and the love of his neighbour made him pray even for his murderers. Through love
+        he rebuked the wandering, that they might be corrected; through love he prayed for
+        them that stoned him, that they might not be punished. By the might of his love he
+        overcame Saul his cruel persecutor; and earned for a comrade in heaven, the very man
+        who had done him to death upon earth.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 3
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Jerome, Commentary on Matthew, Book IV, on Matt 23:34-39"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Hoc quod ántea dixerámus, Impléte mensúram patrum vestrórum; ad persónam Dómini
+        pertinére, eo quod occidéndus esset ab eis, potest et ad discípulos ejus reférri, de
+        quibus nunc dicit: Ecce ego mitto ad vos prophétas, et sapiéntes, et scribas. Simúlque
+        obsérva, juxta Apóstolum scribéntem ad Corínthios, vária esse dona discipulórum
+        Christi; álios prophétas, qui ventúra prædícent; álios sapiéntes, qui novérunt quando
+        débeant proférre sermónem; álios scribas in lege doctíssimos, ex quibus lapidátus est
+        Stéphanus, Paulus occísus, crucifíxus Petrus, flagelláti in Actibus Apostolórum
+        discípuli.
+
+
+        Quǽrimus, quis iste sit Zacharías fílius Barachíæ: quia multos légimus Zacharías. Et
+        ne líbera nobis tribuerétur erróris facúltas, ádditum est: Quem occidístis inter
+        templum et altáre. In divérsis divérsa legi: et débeo singulórum opiniónes pónere.
+        Alii Zacharíam fílium Barachíæ dicunt, qui in duódecim prophétis undécimus est,
+        patrísque in eo nomen conséntit: sed ubi occísus sit inter templum et altáre,
+        Scriptúra non lóquitur; máxime cum tempóribus ejus vix ruínæ templi fúerint. Alii
+        Zacharíam patrem Joánnis intellégi volunt, ex quibúsdam apocryphórum sómniis
+        approbántes, quod proptérea occísus sit, quia Salvatóris prædicáverit advéntum.
+
+
+        Alii istum volunt esse Zacharíam, qui occísus est a Joas rege Judæ inter templum et
+        altáre, sicut Regum narrat história. Sed observándum, quod ille Zacharías non sit
+        fílius Barachíæ, sed fílius Jójadæ sacerdótis: unde et Scriptúra refert: Non fuit
+        recordátus Joas patris ejus Jójadæ, quia sibi fecísset bona. Cum ergo et Zacharíam
+        teneámus et occisiónis conséntiat locus: quǽrimus, quare Barachíæ dicátur fílius, et
+        non Jójadæ? Barachía lingua nostra Benedíctus Dómini dícitur, et sacerdótis Jójadæ
+        justítia Hebrǽo nómine demonstrátur. In Evangélio, quo utúntur Nazaréni, pro fílio
+        Barachíæ, fílium Jójadæ reperímus scriptum.
+      en: >-
+        We have already remarked that the Lord's words, Fill ye up the measure of your
+        fathers, refer in the first place to Himself, Whom the Jews afterwards put to death.
+        In a secondary sense it may likewise be applied to His disciples, of whom He saith,
+        Behold, I send unto you Prophets, and wise men, and Scribes. Here observe that,
+        according to the Apostle writing to the Corinthians, there are diversities of gifts
+        among Christ's followers. Some are Prophets of that which is to come; some are wise
+        men, who know the due season for rebuke and exhortation; some are Scribes learned in
+        the law. And of these they stoned Stephen, slew Paul with the sword, crucified Peter,
+        and scourged the Disciples mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles.
+
+
+        It is a subject of dispute among commentators who is meant by Zacharias the son of
+        Barachias. We read of several persons of the name of Zacharias. But here, in order to
+        prevent any mistake, it is particularly said, Whom ye slew between the temple and the
+        altar. I have read various opinions in various places upon this question, and I will
+        give each. First, some hold that Zacharias the son of Barachias is the eleventh of the
+        twelve Minor Prophets; and this opinion is supported by the father's name. But the
+        Bible nowhere telleth us that this Prophet was slain between the temple and the altar;
+        and it is hardly possible that he can have been, for in his time it could scarcely be
+        said that even the ruins of the temple were in existence. Secondly, others maintain
+        that this Zacharias was Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist. This interpretation
+        is derived from the dreams of the Apocryphal Gospels, wherein it is asserted that he
+        was martyred for preaching Christ's coming.
+
+
+        A third school will have it that this Zacharias, the son of Barachias, was that
+        Zacharias of whom we read, in Chron. xxiv. 22, that he was slain by Joash, king of
+        Judah, between the temple and the altar. Against this it is to be remarked, that that
+        Zacharias was not the son of Barachias, but of Jehoiada the priest; whence it is
+        written, Joash remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him.
+        The question therefore ariseth, if this opinion be true, why, the name and manner of
+        death both agreeing with this explanation, Zacharias is called the son, not of
+        Jehoiada, but of Barachias. In Hebrew, Barachias signifieth the Blessed of the Lord,
+        and Jehoiada proves his Righteousness. In the Gospel used by the Nazarenes the name of
+        Jehoiada is used instead of Barachias.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-thomas-apostle.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Thomas, Apostle (Dec 21) —
+# SanctiM/12-21.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/12-21`) 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/12-21.txt, English/Sancti/12-21.txt.
+#
+# Nocturn 2: only Lectio4 is proper (a single, self-contained vita
+# lesson); Lectio5-6 are a bare `@Commune/C1:Lectio4/5` rubric with no
+# proper content, so Nocturn 2 has just this one reading.
+# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (John 20:24-29) is a bare
+# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so — per
+# the established convention of not transcribing bare incipits — only
+# the homily portion is authored (not marked isGospel), Pope St.
+# Gregory the Great's homily on Doubting Thomas (Lectio7's homily +
+# Lectio8-9 combined, one continuous piece).
+id: st-thomas-apostle
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Thomas Apóstolus, qui et Dídymus, Galilǽus, post accéptum Spíritum Sanctum in multas
+        províncias proféctus est ad prædicándum Christi Evangélium: Parthis, Medis, Persis,
+        Hyrcánis et Bactris christiánæ fídei et vitæ præcépta trádidit. Postrémo ad Indos se
+        cónferens, eos in christiána religióne erudívit. Qui ad extrémum, vitæ doctrinǽque
+        sanctitáte et miraculórum magnitúdine, cum céteris ómnibus sui admiratiónem et Jesu
+        Christi amórem commovísset; illíus gentis regem, idolórum cultórem, magis ad iram
+        accéndit: cujus senténtia condemnátus, telísque confóssus, Calamínæ apostolátus
+        honórem martýrii coróna decorávit.
+      en: >-
+        The Apostle Thomas, called Didymus, or the Twin, was a Galilean. After the descent of
+        the Holy Ghost, he went into many provinces to preach Christ's Gospel. He gave
+        knowledge of the rules of Christian faith and life to the Parthians, Medes, Persians,
+        Hyrcanians, and Bactrians. He went last to the East Indies. Here he provoked the anger
+        of one of the idolatrous kings, because the holiness of his life and teaching, and the
+        number of his miracles, drew many after him, and brought them to the love of Christ
+        Jesus. He was therefore condemned, and slain with lances. He crowned the dignity of
+        the Apostleship with the glory of martyrdom, on the Coromandel coast, not far from
+        Madras.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 3
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "Pope St. Gregory the Great, Homily 26 on the Gospels (on John 20:24-29)"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Quid, fratres caríssimi, quid inter hæc animadvértitis? Numquid casu gestum créditis,
+        ut eléctus ille discípulus tunc deésset, post autem véniens audíret, áudiens
+        dubitáret, dúbitans palpáret, palpans créderet? Non hoc casu, sed divína
+        dispensatióne gestum est. Egit namque miro modo supérna cleméntia, ut discípulus ille
+        dúbitans, dum in magístro suo vúlnera palpáret carnis, in nobis vúlnera sanáret
+        infidelitátis. Plus enim nobis Thomæ infidélitas ad fidem, quam fides credéntium
+        discipulórum prófuit; quia dum ille ad fidem palpándo redúcitur, nostra mens, omni
+        dubitatióne postpósita, in fide solidátur.
+
+
+        Sic quippe discípulum Dóminus post resurrectiónem suam dubitáre permísit, nec tamen
+        in dubitatióne deséruit; sicut ante nativitátem suam habére Maríam sponsum vóluit,
+        qui tamen ad ejus núptias non pervénit. Nam ita factus est discípulus dúbitans et
+        palpans, testis veræ resurrectiónis, sicut sponsus matris fúerat custos integérrimæ
+        virginitátis. Palpávit autem, et exclamávit: Dóminus meus, et Deus meus. Dicit ei
+        Jesus: Quia vidísti me, credidísti. Cum Paulus Apóstolus dicat, Est autem fides
+        sperandárum substántia rerum, arguméntum non apparéntium; profécto liquet quia fides
+        illárum rerum arguméntum est, quæ apparére non possunt. Quæ étenim appárent, jam
+        fidem non habent, sed agnitiónem.
+
+
+        Dum ergo vidit Thomas, dum palpávit, cur ei dícitur: Quia vidísti me, credidísti? Sed
+        áliud vidit, áliud crédidit. A mortáli quippe hómine divínitas vidéri non pótuit.
+        Hóminem ergo vidit, et Deum conféssus est, dicens: Dóminus meus, et Deus meus. Vidéndo
+        ergo crédidit, qui considerándo verum hóminem, hunc Deum, quem vidére non póterat,
+        exclamávit. Lætíficat valde quod séquitur: Beáti qui non vidérunt, et credidérunt. In
+        qua nimírum senténtia nos speciáliter signáti sumus, qui eum, quem carne non vídimus,
+        mente retinémus. Nos signáti sumus; sed si fidem nostram opéribus séquimur. Ille
+        étenim vere credit, qui exércet operándo quod credit.
+      en: >-
+        Dearly beloved brethren, what is it in this passage which particularly claimeth our
+        attention? Think ye that it was by accident that this chosen Apostle was not with them
+        when Jesus came? or, when he came, heard? or, when he heard, doubted? or, when he
+        doubted, felt? or when he had felt, believed? All these things were not accidental,
+        but Providential. It was a wonderful provision of Divine mercy, that this incredulous
+        disciple, by thrusting his fingers into the bodily Wounds of his Master, should apply
+        a remedy to the spiritual wounds of unbelief in our souls. The doubts of Thomas have
+        done us more good than the faith of all the disciples that believed. While he feeleth
+        his way to faith, our minds are freed from doubt, and settled in faith.
+
+
+        Even as the Lord before His birth willed that Mary should be espoused, and yet never
+        lose her virginity, so, after His Resurrection, He willed that His disciple should
+        doubt, and yet not lose his faith. For, even as the espoused husband was the keeper of
+        the virginity of the Mother, so was the disciple who doubted and felt, the witness of
+        the truth of the Resurrection. He felt, and cried out My Lord and my God. Jesus saith
+        unto him Thomas, because thou hast seen Me, thou hast believed. When the Apostle Paul
+        saith: Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, he
+        plainly meaneth that faith is the evidence of things that cannot be seen. When they
+        are seen, there remaineth not faith, but knowledge.
+
+
+        Thomas, then, seeth, and believeth. Why is it said to him Because thou hast seen Me,
+        thou hast believed? The truth is, he saw one thing, and so believed another. To
+        mortal man it is not given to see God. He therefore saw only the Manhood, and yet had
+        faith in the Godhead: My Lord and my God. This he said, seeing and believing, seeing
+        Perfect Man, and yet believing in Perfect God, Whom he could not see. O what a comfort
+        are the words which follow! Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have
+        believed. These words are specially meant for us, who have not seen even the Flesh,
+        and who yet do believe. They are specially meant for us if we believe and do not, by
+        our lives, give the lie to our belief. He only hath a saving faith, whose faith
+        beareth fruit.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-thomas-becket.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Thomas of Canterbury, Bishop,
+# Martyr (Dec 29) — SanctiM/12-29.txt inherits the whole day
+# (`@Sancti/12-29`) 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/12-29.txt, English/Sancti/12-29.txt.
+#
+# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita
+# (through his martyrdom in the cathedral).
+# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (John 10:11-16) is a bare
+# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so — per
+# the established convention of not transcribing bare incipits — only
+# the homily portion is authored (not marked isGospel), St. John
+# Chrysostom's homily (Lectio7's homily + Lectio8-9 combined, one
+# continuous piece).
+id: st-thomas-becket
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Thomas, Londíni in Anglia natus, Theobáldo succéssit Cantuariénsi epíscopo: et qui
+        ántea in administrándo cancelláriæ múnere præcláre se gésserat, in episcopáli offício
+        fortis et invíctus fuit. Cum enim Henrícus secúndus Angliæ rex, convocátis ad se
+        epíscopis et procéribus regni, leges ferret utilitáti ac dignitáti ecclesiásticæ
+        repugnántes, ádeo constánter óbstitit régiæ cupiditáti, ut neque pollicitatiónibus,
+        neque terróribus de senténtia decédens, próxime conjiciéndus in cárcerem clam
+        recésserit. Inde propínqui ejus omnis ætátis ejécti, amíci, fautóres omnes, iis,
+        quibus per ætátem licéret, jurejurándo adstríctis, univérsos Thomam aditúros, si
+        fortásse miserábili suórum calamitátis aspéctu moverétur, qui a sancto propósito
+        privátis incómmodis deterréri mínime potuísset. Non respéxit carnem aut sánguinem,
+        neque ullus in eo humanitátis sensus offícii constántiam labefactávit.
+
+
+        Cóntulit ígitur se ad Alexándrum tértium Pontíficem, a quo benígne accéptus est: et
+        inde proféctus, mónachis Pontiniacénsis monastérii, Cisterciénsis órdinis, ab eódem
+        commendátus. Quod ut cognóvit Henrícus, missis ad convéntum fratrum Cisterciénsium
+        minácibus lítteris, Thomam e Pontiníaco monastério exturbáre conátur. Quare vir
+        sanctus, véritus ne sua causa mali áliquid Cisterciénsis família paterétur, sponte
+        discéssit, et Ludovícum Gálliæ regem ejus invitátu convénit; ubi támdiu fuit, quoad,
+        Pontífice máximo et ipso rege agéntibus, ab exsílio, summa totíus regnis
+        gratulatióne revocátur. Quid dum boni pastóris offícium secúrus exséquitur, ecce
+        calumniatóres ad regem déferunt, eum multa contra regnum et públicam quiétem molíri,
+        ut proptérea sǽpius conquererétur rex, se in suo regno cum uno sacerdóte pacem habére
+        non posse.
+
+
+        Ex qua regis voce nefárii satéllites sperántes gratum se regi factúros, si Thomam e
+        médio tóllerent, clam conveniéntes Cantuáriam, epíscopum in templo vespertínis horis
+        óperam dantem aggrediúntur. Qui cléricis templi áditus præclúdere conántibus
+        accúrrens, óstium apéruit, illis usus verbis ad suos: Non est Dei Ecclésia
+        custodiénda more castrórum; et ego pro Ecclésia Dei libénter mortem subíbo. Tum ad
+        mílites: Vos Dei jussu cavéte, ne cuípiam meórum noceátis. Deínde flexis génibus, Deo,
+        beátæ Maríæ, sancto Dionýsio et réliquis Sanctis ejus ecclésiæ patrónis, Ecclésiam et
+        seípsum comméndans, sacrum caput eádem constántia, qua iniquíssimi regis légibus
+        restíterat, ímpio ferro præcidéndum óbtulit, quarto Kaléndas Januárii, anno Dómini
+        millésimo centésimo septuagésimo primo: cujus cérebro respérsum est totíus templi
+        paviméntum. Quem multis póstea illústrem miráculis idem Alexánder Póntifex rétulit in
+        Sanctórum númerum.
+      en: >-
+        Thomas was born in London, and succeeded Theobald in the Archbishopric of Canterbury.
+        He had previously filled with great distinction the office of Lord Chancellor, and
+        showed an indomitable firmness in his duty as Primate. When Henry II., King of
+        England, in an assembly of the Bishops and great men of his realm, endeavoured to pass
+        laws detrimental to the advantage and dignity of the Church, he opposed himself so
+        steadily to the king's wishes, that, neither promises, nor threats availing to shake
+        him, he was about to be cast into prison, had he not made good his escape in time. The
+        whole of his kinsfolk without regard to age or sex, his friends, and his advisers, were
+        then banished the kingdom, and those who were able, were bound by an oath to make their
+        way to the presence of Thomas, in the hope that though careless of his own sufferings,
+        he might yield at the sight of their misery. But neither flesh and blood, nor the
+        pleadings of natural affection could make him swerve from the line of his pastoral
+        duty.
+
+
+        He betook himself to Pope Alexander III., by whom he was graciously received, and who
+        committed him to the care of the Cistercians at Pontigni. As soon as this came to the
+        knowledge of King Henry, he sent threatening letters to the monks, in order to drive
+        Thomas from this shelter. The saint was unwilling that the Cistercian Order should
+        suffer on his account, and therefore voluntarily withdrew from Pontigni, and accepted
+        the invitation of Lewis VII., King of France, to go to his court. He remained here,
+        until his banishment was recalled at the intercession of the Pope and of the King of
+        France, and he returned to England amid great public joy. He was quietly continuing
+        the work of a faithful shepherd of souls, when certain calumniators denounced him to
+        the king as a plotter against the crown and the public peace. Henry, deceived by these
+        libels, cried out that it was hard that one priest should never let him have quiet in
+        his kingdom.
+
+
+        Come wicked servants of the king, hearing his words, and thinking to do him pleasure,
+        betook themselves to Canterbury to rid him of the Archbishop. They entered the
+        cathedral in the evening as Thomas was proceeding to assist at Evensong. The clergy in
+        attendance on him, conscious of the attempt about to be made, wished to bolt the doors.
+        But the saint caused them to be again opened, saying, The Church of God is not to be
+        made a castle of, and for the cause of God's Church I am willing to die. He then said
+        to his murderers, I charge you in the name of the Almighty God to hurt none of my
+        people. With these words he fell on his knees, and commended himself to God, to the
+        Blessed Virgin Mary, to St Denis, and to the other holy Patrons of the Church of
+        Canterbury. He presently offered his sacred head for the stroke of death, and received
+        it from the swords of those wicked men with the same constancy with which he had
+        withstood the commands of the unrighteous king. The murderers pulled out his brains and
+        strewed them all about the floor of the Church. He testified on the 29th day of
+        December, and, being afterwards honoured with many miracles, was canonised by Pope
+        Alexander III.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 3
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. John Chrysostom, Homily 59 on John (on John 10:11-16)"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Magnum quiddam, dilectíssimi, magnum, inquam, est Ecclésiæ prælátio, et quæ multa
+        índiget sapiéntia et fortitúdine, qualem Christus propósuit: ut ánimam pro óvibus
+        ponámus, et numquam illas deserámus; ut lupo generóse resistámus. Hæc enim inter
+        pastórem et mercenárium est differéntia: alter própriæ, contémptis óvibus; alter, sua
+        contémpta, óvium semper salúti invígilat. Pastóris ergo exémplo demonstráto,
+        deceptóres duos méminit: furem mactántem et rapiéntem oves; et mercenárium
+        permitténtem, neque defendéntem commíssas.
+
+
+        Quod superióri témpore Ezéchiel his verbis insectátus est: Væ pastóribus Israël:
+        nonne pascébant semetípsos? Nonne greges pascúntur a pastóribus? Sed illi contrárium
+        faciébant, quod máximæ malítiæ genus est, et plurimórum causa malórum. Idcírco
+        inquit: Neque quod abjéctum erat, reducébant: neque quod períerat, quærébant: neque
+        confráctum alligábant: neque infírmum consolidábant: quóniam se, non gregem
+        pascébant. Idem et Paulus áliis verbis signíficat: Omnes quæ sua sunt, quærunt, non
+        quæ Jesu Christi.
+
+
+        Verum ab utróque se dissidére osténdit Christus: ab illis quidem, qui in aliórum
+        perníciem véniunt, cum dicat, se proptérea venísse, ut vitam habérent, et abundántius
+        habérent: ab his autem, qui oves a lupis rapi negligébant, dicéndo se propter eas
+        ánimam pónere, ne oves perírent. Nam cum Judǽi ipsum interímere vellent, non proptérea
+        déstitit a doctrína, neque credéntes trádidit, sed pérstitit, et pértulit mortem:
+        ídeo frequénter inquit: Ego sum pastor bonus. Quæ cum nullo niti testimónio
+        viderentur, (quod enim póneret ánimam suam, non multo post re monstrátum est; quod
+        autem vitam habérent, et abundántius habérent, eventúrum erat in futúro sǽculo)
+        álterum ab áltero confírmat.
+      en: >-
+        Dearly beloved brethren, the Bishops of the Church hold a great office, an office that
+        needeth much that wisdom and strength whereof Christ hath given us an example. We must
+        learn of Him to lay down our lives for the sheep and never to leave them; and to fight
+        bravely against the wolf. This is the difference between the true shepherd and the
+        hireling. The one leaveth the sheep and seeketh his own safety, but the other recketh
+        not of his own safety, so as he may watch over the sheep. Christ then having given us
+        the pattern of a good shepherd, warneth us against two enemies; first, the thief that
+        cometh not but to kill and to steal, and, secondly, the hireling that standeth by, and
+        defendeth not them that are committed to his charge.
+
+
+        Ezechiel hath said of old time: Woe be to the shepherds of Israel! do they not feed
+        themselves? Should not the shepherds feed the flocks? But they did the contrary, a
+        great wickedness and the root of many evils. Therefore, he saith, they brought not back
+        that which was gone astray neither did they search for that which was lost neither did
+        they bind up that which was broken, nor strengthen that which was sick; for they fed
+        themselves, and not the flock. And Paul hath the same in other words, where he saith:
+        All seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
+
+
+        Christ showeth Himself very different from either the thief or the hireling; whereas
+        the thief cometh to destroy, He came that they might have life, and that they might
+        have it more abundantly. The hireling fleeth, but He layeth down His life for the
+        sheep, that the sheep perish not. When then the Jews went about to kill Him, He ceased
+        not to teach He gave not up them that believed in Him, but stood steadfast and died.
+        Wherefore He hath good title often to say, I am the Good Shepherd. It was but a little
+        while, and He showed us how He could lay down His life for the sheep. And if it
+        appeareth not as yet how they have life, and have it more abundantly, (but it shall
+        appear, in the world which is to come,) we may well be persuaded of the truth of the
+        second promise, who have seen the fulfilment of the first.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

tests/hours/matins.test.ts

@@ -38,9 +38,14 @@ describe('resolveOrdo("matins", ...) ferial (1-nocturn) branch', () => {
 
   it("resolves the user's own bible-plan readings for Advent III Tuesday, not the historical lectionary", () => {
     const lessons = ordo.parts.filter((p) => p.kind === 'lesson');
-    expect(lessons).toHaveLength(2);
+    // 2 bible-plan readings, plus a 3rd: St. Eusebius of Vercelli's own
+    // commemoration reading, generously surfaced per the "commemorations
+    // get their own reading" design (see hours/matins.ts's own header) —
+    // vu places him Dec 15 (a Monastic 1617 same-day redirect), commemorated
+    // under this Advent III Tuesday ferial.
+    expect(lessons).toHaveLength(3);
     const citations = lessons.map((l) => (l as { text: { citation?: { en?: string } } }).text.citation?.en);
-    expect(citations).toEqual(['Isa 36; Isa 37', 'Sap 14']);
+    expect(citations).toEqual(['Isa 36; Isa 37', 'Sap 14', undefined]);
     // Real content isn't imported yet (Vulgate/Douay-Rheims bulk import is
     // a deferred follow-on) — honest `missing`, not fabricated text.
     expect((lessons[0] as { text: { status: { en?: string } } }).text.status.en).toBe('missing');