Add June Matins readings for pre-1955 sanctoral saints

Ss. Basilides/Cyrinus/Nabor/Nazarius, St. Anthony of Padua, Ss. Gervase
and Protase, St. Silverius, and St. Paulinus of Nola.

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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and
# Nazarius, Martyrs (June 12) — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain
# Sancti/06-12.txt is a different, later saint (St. John of San Facundo,
# canonized 1690) who displaced these martyrs on the general calendar's
# own June 12 slot; their content survives at the suffixed sibling file
# (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle").
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-12o.txt, English/Sancti/06-12o.txt.
# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source.
# English source text cuts off mid-sentence ("but, as the creatures
# would not touch them," then straight to &teDeum) — the final clause
# below completes the sentence following the Latin, so marked draft
# rather than verified for English.
id: ss-basilides-cyrinus-nabor-and-nazarius
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor et Nazarius, Romani milites, nobiles genere, et virtute illustres,
christiana religione suscepta, cum Christum Dei Filium, Diocletiano imperatore,
prædicarent, ab Aurelio præfecto Urbis comprehensi, et ut diis sacra facerent admoniti, ejus
jussa contemnentes, missi sunt in carcerem. Quibus orantibus, cum subito clarissima lux
oborta omnium oculis, qui ibidem essent, carcerem collustrasset: illo cælesti splendore
commotus Marcellus custodiæ præpositus, multique alii, Christo Domino crediderunt. Verum
postea e carcere emissi, ab imperatore Maximiano, cum ejus étiam neglecto imperio, unum
Christum Deum et Dominum in ore haberent, scorpionibus cruciati iterum conjiciuntur in
vincula: unde septimo die educti, et ante pedes imperatoris constituti, perstiterunt in
irrisione inanium deorum, Jesum Christum Deum constantissime confitentes. Quam ob rem
damnati, securi feriuntur. Quorum corpora feris objecta, nec ab illis tacta a Christianis
honorifice sepulta sunt.
en: >-
Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius were Roman soldiers, of illustrious birth, and
distinguished gallantry. Having embraced the Christian Religion, and being found publishing
that Christ was the Son of God, they were arrested by Aurelius, Prefect of Rome under the
Emperor Diocletian. As they despised his orders to sacrifice to the gods, they were
committed to prison. While they were at prayer there, a brilliant light broke forth before
the eyes of all that were there, and shone in all the prison. Marcellinus the keeper of the
prison and many others were moved by this heavenly glory to believe in the Lord Christ.
Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius were afterwards discharged out of the prison.
However, in the reign of the Emperor Maximian, when they set light by his commands also, and
had ever in their mouth that there is but one Christ, one God, and one Lord, they were
tormented with whips loaded with metal, and again cast into chains. Thence, on the seventh
day, they were brought out, and set before the Emperor, and there still persisted in mocking
at the foolish idols, and declaring that Jesus Christ is God. They were accordingly condemned
to death and beheaded. Their bodies were given to wild beasts to eat, but, as the creatures
would not touch them, they were reverently buried by the Christians.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Gervase and Protase, Martyrs (June 19)
# — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/06-19.txt is a different, later
# saint (St. Juliana Falconieri, canonized 1737) who displaced Gervase
# and Protase on the general calendar's own June 19 slot; their content
# survives at the suffixed sibling file (see memory
# vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle").
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-19o.txt, English/Sancti/06-19o.txt.
# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source.
id: ss-gervase-and-protase
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Gervasius et Protasius, Vitalis et Valériæ fílii, quorum pater Ravennæ, mater Mediolani pro
Christi Dómini fide martyrium subiérunt, distributo paupéribus patrimonio, domesticos servos
libertáte donarunt. Quo facto Gentílium sacerdótes immane in illos conceptum ódium habebant.
Quare, cum Astasius comes in bellum proficisci vellet, hanc occasiónem perdéndi pios fratres
se nactos esse putavérunt. Itaque Astasio persuadent se a diis admonitos esse, nullo modo eum
in bello victórem futurum, nisi Gervasio et Protasio coactis Christum negare, eosdem ad
sacra diis facienda compélleret. Quod cum illi detestaréntur, Astasius imperávit Gervasium
tamdiu cædi, dum inter verbera exspiraret; Protasium fustibus contusum secúri pércuti jubet.
Quorum córpora Philippus Christi servus clam sústulit et in suis ædibus sepelívit: quæ
póstea sanctus Ambrosius, Dei mónitu invénta, in loco sacro et insígni collocanda curávit.
Passi sunt Mediolani décimo tertio Kalendas Julii.
en: >-
Gervase and Protase were the sons of Vitalis and Valeria, both of whom testified even unto
death for the Lord Christ's sake, the father at Ravenna, and the mother at Milan. After the
victory of their parents, Gervase and Protase gave all the inheritance to the poor, and set
free their slaves. This act of theirs stirred up against them a savage hatred on the part of
the heathen priests, and when the Count Astasius was about setting forth to war, they
believed they had got a good occasion for the destruction of the two godly brethren. They
persuaded Astasius that their gods had revealed to them that he had no chance of conquering
in the war, unless he had first made Gervase and Protase to deny Christ and to offer
sacrifice to the gods. Being commanded so to do, they flatly refused, and Astasius then
ordered Gervase to be lashed until he died between the stripes, and Protase to be cudgelled
and beheaded. A servant of Christ named Philip took away their dead bodies by stealth, and
buried them in his own house, and, in after times, St. Ambrose, being warned of God, found
them, and bestowed them in an hallowed and honourable place. They suffered at Milan upon the
19th day of June.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Anthony of Padua, Confessor and
# Doctor of the Church (June 13) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no
# SanctiM/06-13*.txt at all).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-13.txt, English/Sancti/06-13.txt.
# Lectio4-6 is this saint's own proper text, one continuous vita account,
# no internal break, combined into a single reading. No responsory given
# for these lessons in the source (Responsory9 present is the
# Dominican-rite variant for a different lesson, not applicable here).
id: st-anthony-of-padua
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Antónius, Ulyssipóne in Lusitánia honéstis ortus paréntibus, et ab iis pie educátus,
adoléscens, institútum canonicórum regulárium suscépit. Sed, cum córpora beatórum quinque
Mártyrum fratrum Minórum Conímbriam transferéntur, qui paulo ante apud Marróchium pro
Christi fide passi erant, martýrii desidério incénsus ad Franciscánum órdinem transívit. Mox
eódem ardóre impúlsus, ad Saracénos ire perréxit; sed, advérsa valetúdine afflíctus et redíre
coáctus, cum navi ad Hispániæ líttora ténderet, ventórum vi in Sicíliam delátus est.
Assísium e Sicília ad capítulum generále venit: inde in erémum montis Pauli in Æmília
secéssit, ubi divínis contemplatiónibus, jejúniis et vigíliis diu vacávit. Póstea, sacris
ordínibus initiátus et ad prædicándum Evangélium missus, dicéndi sapiéntia et cópia tantum
profécit, tantámque sui admiratiónem commóvit, ut eum summus Póntifex aliquándo concionántem
áudiens, arcam Testaménti appellárit. In primis vero hǽreses summa vi profligávit,
ideóque perpétuus hæreticórum málleus est vocátus.
Primus ex suo ordine, ob doctrínæ præstántiam, Bonóniæ et álibi sacras lítteras est
interpretátus, fratrúmque suórum stúdiis præfuit. Multis vero peragrátis provínciis, anno
ante óbitum Patávium venit, ubi illústria sanctitátis suæ monuménta relíquit. Dénique magnis
labóribus pro glória Dei perfúnctus, méritis et miráculis clarus obdormívit in Dómino Idibus
Júnii. Quem Gregórius nonus, Póntifex máximus, sanctórum Confessórum número adscrípsit, et
Pius duodécimus, ex Sacrórum Rítuum Congregatiónis consúlto, universális Ecclésiæ Doctórem
declarávit.
en: >-
Ferdinand de Bullones, afterwards called Anthony, was born of decent parents at Lisbon in
Portugal. They gave him a godly training, and while he was still a young man, he joined an
Institute of Canons Regular. However, when the bodies of the five holy martyred Friars
Minor, who had just suffered in Morocco for Christ's sake, were brought to Coimbra, the
desire to be himself a martyr took a strong hold upon him, and he left the Canons Regular
and became a Franciscan. The same yearning led him to attempt to go among the Saracens, but
he fell sick on the way, and, being obliged to turn back, the ship in which he had embarked
for Spain was driven by stress of weather to Sicily.
From Sicily he came to Assisi to attend the General Chapter of his Order, and thence
withdrew himself to the Hermitage of Monte Paolo near Bologna, where he gave himself up for
a long while to consideration of the things of God, to fastings, and to watchings. Being
afterwards ordained Priest and sent to preach the Gospel, his wisdom and fluency were very
marked, and drew on him such admiration of men, that the Pope, once hearing him preach,
called him The Ark of the Covenant. One of his chief points was to expend all his strength
in attacking heresies, whence he gained the name of the Heretics' everlasting Hammer.
He was the first of his Order who, on account of his excellent gift of teaching, publicly
lectured at Bologna on the interpretation of Holy Scripture, and directed the studies of his
brethren. He traveled through many provinces. The year before his death he came to Padua,
where he left some remarkable records of his holy life. After having undergone much toil for
the glory of God, full of good works and miracles, he fell asleep in the Lord upon the 13th
day of June. Pope Gregory IX enrolled his name among those of the Holy Confessors, and Pius
XII, on the advice of the Congregation of Sacred Rites, declared him a Doctor of the
universal Church.
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Paulinus of Nola, Bishop and
# Confessor (June 22) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/06-22*.txt at
# all; the "n"/"t" suffix variants at this date are a modern 20th-c.
# saint and a duplicate of the plain file, not relevant).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-22.txt, English/Sancti/06-22.txt.
#
# Lectio4-6 is this saint's own proper vita, one continuous account, no
# internal break, combined into a single reading.
#
# Nocturn 3's Lectio7 gives only the Gospel incipit ("Et réliqua", Luke
# 12:32-34) with no full pericope text, so the bare Gospel reading isn't
# authored here (deferred, same as elsewhere pending the bulk
# Vulgate/Douay-Rheims import). Lectio7's own homily portion + Lectio8-9
# is one continuous excerpt from St. Paulinus's own sermon (fittingly,
# on almsgiving to the poor — his own day, his own words), combined into
# a single reading. No responsory given for either reading in the
# source.
id: st-paulinus-of-nola
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Póntius Merópius Anícius Paulínus, a claríssima cívium Romanórum família, Burdígalæ in
Aquitánia natus, acri fuit ingénio ac móribus suávibus. Ausónio magístro, eloquéntiæ ac
poéseos laude excélluit. Prænóbilis ac ditíssimus, honórum cursum ingréssus, florénti ætáte,
senatória dignitáte potítus est. Dein Itáliam pétiit consul, et Campániam provínciam nactus,
sedem Nolæ státuit. Hic divíno lúmine tactus, ob cæléstia signa, quæ Felícis presbyteri
Mártyris sepúlcrum illustrábant, veræ Christi fídei, quam jam ánimo cogitábat, impénsius
adhærére cœpit. Fasces ígitur ac secúrim nulla cæde maculátam depósuit, et revérsus in
Gálliam, váriis ærúmnis ac magnis terra maríque labóribus jactátus, óculo cápitur; sed a
beáto Martíno Turonénsi epíscopo sanitáti restitútus, lustrálibus baptísmatis aquis a beáto
Delphíno Burdigalénsi antístite ablúitur.
Divítiis quibus abundábat spretis, bona véndidit pretiúmque paupéribus distríbuit, et uxórem
linquens Therásiam, mutáta pátria et ruptis vínculis carnis, in Hispániam secéssit,
venerándam secútus ac toto sibi pretiosiórem orbe Christi paupériem. Barcinóne dum Sacris
devóte astáret, solémni die Domínicæ Nativitátis, repentíno admirátæ plebis tumúltu
corréptus, ac frustra relúctans, a Lampídio epíscopo présbyter ordinátur. Inde redit in
Itáliam, et Nolæ, quo sancti Felícis religióne ductus fúerat, penes illíus sepúlcrum
monastérium cóndidit, et adscítis sóciis cœnobíticam vitam aggréditur. Hic vir, jam senatória
et consulári dignitáte præclárus, stultítiam crucis ampléxus, toto fere orbe admiránte, vili
indútus túnica, vigílias inter ac jejúnia, in assídua cæléstium rerum contemplatióne dies
noctésque defíxus manébat. Sed, percrescénte sanctimóniæ fama, ad Nolánum episcopátum
evéhitur, atque eódem in pastoráli múnere obeúndo, miránda pietátis, sapiéntiæ ac potíssimum
caritátis exémpla relíquit.
Hæc inter, sapiéntia reférta, de religióne ac fide pertractántia edíderat scripta, sæpe étiam
númeris indúlgens concínnis carmínibus Sanctórum acta concelebráverat, summam christiáni
poétæ famam adéptus. Quotquot sanctitáte ac doctrína præstantíssimi viri eo témpore erant,
tot sibi amicítia atque admiratióne devínxit. Quamplúrimi ad eum, ceu ad christiánæ
perfectiónis magístrum, undequáquam confluébant. Vastáta a Gothis Campánia, facultátem
omnem, ne relíctis quidem sibi rebus ad vitam necessáriis, in aléndos páuperes et captívos
rediméndos cóntulit. Póstea vero, Vándalis eásdem regiónes infestántibus, cum ab eo pósceret
vídua ut fílium sibi redímeret ab hóstibus captum; consúmptis bonis ómnibus, in offício
pietátis, se ipsum pro illo tradit in servitútem, atque in víncula conjéctus in Africam
rápitur. Tandem, non sine præsénti Dei ope, libertáte donátus et Nolam revérsus, diléctum
ovíle bonus pastor revísit; ibíque annum agens septuagésimum octávum ætátis suæ,
placidíssimo éxitu obdormívit in Dómino. Corpus, prope sancti Felícis sepúlcrum cónditum,
póstea, Longobardórum témpore, Benevéntum, atque, Ottóne tértio imperatóre, Romam ad
basílicam sancti Bartholomæi ad ínsulam Tiberínam translátum fuit. Pius vero Papa décimus
jussit sacras Paulíni exúvias Nolæ restítui, et festum ipsíus ad ritum dúplicem pro univérsa
Ecclésia evéxit.
en: >-
Pontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus was born of a most illustrious family of Roman citizens at
Bordeaux, in Aquitaine, and was of keen intelligence and graceful manners. With Ausonius as
his master, he was honourably distinguished for eloquence and poetry. Being of the higher
nobility, and very wealthy, he began a career of honours in the flower of his youth, and
attained senatorial dignity. Then he went to Italy as consul, where he obtained the province
of Campania and fixed his residence at Nola. Here he was struck, as by a ray of the divine
light, by the heavenly miracles which were making illustrious the tomb of Felix, Priest and
Martyr, and began to adhere more earnestly to the true faith of Christ, which he had long
been revolving in his mind. And so he resigned the consular fasces and axe, never defiled by
blood, and returned to Gaul, and after suffering various hardships and many toils both by
land and by sea he received an injury to the eye; but being restored to health by the
blessed Martin, Bishop of Tours, he was washed in the lustral waters of baptism by the
blessed Delphinus, Bishop of Bordeaux.
He despised his abundant wealth, sold his property, and gave the money to the poor, and left
his wife Therasia, changed his country, broke all natural ties, and retired to Spain,
conforming to the more precious poverty of Christ, which he valued more than the whole
world. While he was devoutly assisting at Mass in Barcelona on the feast of the Lord's
Nativity, he was suddenly seized by force by an admiring crowd, and in spite of his
reluctance, ordained priest by the Bishop Lampidius. Then he returned to Italy, and at Nola,
where he had been drawn by devotion to St. Felix, he built a monastery near his tomb, and
entered upon the monastic life with some companions. This man, already notable for his
senatorial and consular dignity, embraced the folly of the cross to the admiration of almost
the whole world, and, clothed in a mean garment, in vigils and in fastings, remained for days
and nights fixed in constant contemplation of heavenly things. But, as the fame of his
sanctity spread, he was elevated to the see of Nola, and entering upon that pastoral office,
he gave a wonderful example of piety, wisdom, and above all, of charity.
Meanwhile he had produced writings full of wisdom, treating of religion and faith, and often
also as a recreation, he had celebrated the deeds of the Saints in numerous elegant poems,
attaining the highest fame as a Christian poet. All the men living at that time who were
pre-eminent for holiness and learning, he attached to himself with the bonds of friendship
and admiration. Very many flocked to him from all parts of the country, as if to a master of
Christian perfection. When Campania was laid waste by the Goths, he devoted all his
resources to feeding the poor, and ransoming captives, without even leaving for himself the
necessities of life. And after that, when the Vandals invaded the same region, a widow
begged him to ransom her son who had been captured by the enemy; and as he had spent all his
resources in works of piety, he sold himself into slavery in the young man's place, and was
taken in chains to Africa. At length he was set at liberty, not without the evident
assistance of God, and, returning to Nola, the good shepherd once more saw his beloved
flock. There, in a most peaceful end, he fell asleep in the Lord in the seventy-eighth year
of his age. His body was buried near the tomb of St. Felix, and later, in the time of the
Lombards, was translated to Benevento and, under the Emperor Otto III, to Rome, where it was
laid in the basilica of St. Bartholomew on an island in the Tiber. But Pope Pius X ordered
the sacred relics of Paulinus to be restored to Nola, and he raised his feast to the rite of
a double for the universal Church.
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- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, Sermon (Epistle 34), \"De Gazophylacio\""
text:
la: >-
Potúerat, dilectíssimi, Dóminus omnípotens æque univérsos dívites fácere, ut nemo indigéret
áltero; sed infinítæ bonitátis consílio sic parávit miséricors et miserátor Dóminus, ut tuam
in illis mentem probet. Fecit míserum, ut agnósceret misericórdem; fecit ínopem, ut exercéret
opuléntum. Matéria divitiárum tibi est fratérna paupértas, si intélligas super egénum et
páuperem, nec tibi tantum hábeas quod accepísti; quia ídeo et illíus partem tibi in hoc
sæculo cóntulit Deus, ut tibi debéret quidquid de suis donis tuo voluntário afféctu
indigéntibus obtulísses, ac te vicíssim in ætérna die de illíus parte ditáret. Per ipsos enim
nunc áccipit Christus, et tunc pro ipsis repéndet.
Réfice esuriéntem ánimam, et non timébis in die malo ab ira superventúra. Beátus enim
(inquit), qui intélligit super egénum et páuperem, in die malo liberábit eum Dóminus. Operáre
ígitur et éxcole hanc regiónem terræ tuæ, frater, ut gérminet tibi frugem fértilem, plenam
ádipe fruménti, magno cum fœnore centésimum tibi fructum multiplicáti séminis afferéntem. In
hujus vel possessiónis vel negotiatiónis appetítum et stúdium sancta et salutáris est
avarítia; nam talis cupíditas, quæ regnum cæléste merétur et bonum perénne desíderat, radix
bonórum est. Tales ígitur divítias concupíscite, et hujúsmodi possidéte patrimónium, quod in
centénos fructus vobis créditor pénsitet, ut vestros quoque vobíscum bonis perénnibus
augeátis herédes. Posséssio enim hæc vere magna et pretiósa est, quæ possessórem suum non
cúmulo sæculári ónerat, sed réditu ditat ætérno.
Verum, dilectíssimi, non solum ut bona ætérna quærátis, sed ut mala innúmera vitáre
mereámini, præsénti sollicitúdine et sédula operatióne justítiæ providéte. Magno enim
adjutório atque præsídio nobis opus est, et multárum atque indeficiéntium oratiónum
patrocíniis indigémus. Adversárius enim noster non quiéscit, et in nostrum pérvigil hostis
intéritum óbsidet omnes vias nostras. Multæ prætérea nobis in hoc sæculo cruces, innúmera
discrímina, morbórum labes, fébrium ignes et dolórum tela grassántur in ánimas, cupiditátum
faces accendúntur; ubíque præténti latent láquei, úndique stricti horrent gládii, inter
insídias et pugnas vita transígitur, et per ignes dolóso cíneri suppósitos ambulámus. Igitur,
priúsquam in áliquam tantárum ægritúdinum labem casu vel mérito actus incúrras, festína
médico suscéptus et carus fíeri, ut in témpore necessitátis parátum hábeas remédium salútis.
Aliud est, quando tu solus oras pro te; et áliud, quando multitúdo pro te apud Deum
trépidat.
en: >-
The Lord who is omnipotent, dearly beloved, might have made all men equally rich, so that no
one need ask anything from another. In his infinite goodness, however, the merciful and
gracious Lord hath planned otherwise, in order to prove your disposition in these matters.
He hath made misery, that he might discern mercy; he hath made the needy, that he might make
use of the rich. For your brother's poverty is your material of riches, if ye do not
understand concerning the needy and the poor, and do not consider as your own what wealth ye
have received. For God hath bestowed upon you your brother's portion in this world, in order
that ye should offer of your own willing affection something of his gifts to those in need,
and that he may enrich you in your turn with that portion in eternity. For now Christ
receiveth through them, and hereafter he will repay for them.
Refresh the hungry soul, and ye will not fear the wrath to come in the evil day. For, saith
he, Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and poor; the Lord will deliver
him in the evil day. Therefore, brother, work and cultivate this parcel of thy land, that it
may bear for you a rich crop, full of the fatness of wheat, bringing to you with great
interest the fruit of the seed an hundred times multiplied. In the desire and pursuit of
this business or this possession there is a holy and salutary avarice; for such desire which
doth merit the kingdom of heaven, and doth long for eternal goods, is the root of all good.
Therefore covet such riches, and take possession of this kind of patrimony, that the
creditor may weigh out to you the fruit increased an hundredfold, and ye and your heirs may
abound in everlasting good things. For this possession is great and precious, which doth not
burden the owner with earthly wealth, but enricheth him with an eternal reward.
Truly, dearly beloved, by present carefulness and constant just dealing, provide not only
that ye seek eternal good things, but that ye may deserve to escape innumerable evils. For we
require strong helps and protection, and stand in need of many and unceasing prayers for our
defence. For our adversary does not rest, and the ever-watchful enemy besetteth all our ways
in order to work our ruin. Moreover, in this world we have many crosses, very numerous
struggles, pestilent diseases, fires of fever and stabs of pain do violence to our souls. The
flames of lust are kindled; hidden snares are set everywhere, on all sides there bristle
drawn swords, life is passed in the midst of ambushes and combats, and we walk through fires
craftily buried under ashes. Therefore before ye should by your misfortune or your fault rush
into any one of such great calamities, hasten to become acceptable and dear to the physician,
so that in time of need ye may have ready the remedy of salvation. It is one thing when ye
alone pray for yourself; and quite another when a multitude entreateth for you before God.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Silverius, Pope and Martyr (June 20) —
# pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/06-20*.txt at all; the "t" suffix
# variant at this date is an empty stub, not relevant).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-20.txt, English/Sancti/06-20.txt. Single
# lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source. The
# English source has an evident stray-word artifact ("for defending Save
# the heresy of Eutyches") — transcribed here as "the heresy of
# Eutyches", dropping the stray "Save".
id: st-silverius
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Silverius Campanus post Agapitum proxime Pontifex creatus est: cujus doctrina et sanctitas
illuxit in insectandis hæreticis, et constantis animi magnitudo perspecta est in tuendo
judicio Agapiti. Nam Anthimum, quem, quia Eutychianam hæresim defendebat, Agapitus ab
episcopatu Constantinopolitano deposuerat, cum a Theodora Augusta sæpissime rogatus esset,
restituere noluit. Quam ob rem irata mulier mandat Belisario ut Silverium mittat in
exsilium. Qui exsulavit in insula Pontia, unde his verbis scripsisse fertur ad Amatorem
episcopum: Sustentor pane tribulationis et aqua angustiæ; nec tamen dimisi, aut dimitto
officium meum. Et sane, brevi incommodis ærumnisque confectus, obdormivit in Domino,
duodecimo Kalendas Julii; Cujus corpus Romam delatum, et in basilica Vaticana depositum,
multis miraculis illustratum fuit. Præfuit Ecclesiæ annos tres et amplius, creatis mense
Decembri presbyteris tredecim, diaconis quinque, episcopis per diversa loca decem et novem.
en: >-
This Silverius was a native of Campania, and succeeded Agapitus in the Papacy. His
orthodoxy and holiness shone brightest in his onslaughts upon heretics, and he showed
admirable firmness in upholding a sentence by Agapitus. Agapitus had deposed Anthimus from
the Patriarchate of Constantinople for defending the heresy of Eutyches; and Silverius would
never allow of his restoration, although the Empress Theodora repeatedly asked him to do so.
The woman was enraged at him on this account, and ordered Belisarius to send Silverius into
exile. He was accordingly banished to the island of Ponza, whence he is said to have written
these words to Bishop Amator: I am fed upon the bread of tribulation and the water of
affliction, but nevertheless I have not given up, and I will not give up, doing my duty. But
sickness and the hardships of his exile soon broke his strength, and he fell asleep in the
Lord upon the 20th day of June. Many miracles shed a lustre upon his grave. He ruled the
Church for more than three years, and ordained in the month of December thirteen Priests,
five Deacons, and nineteen Bishops for diverse Sees.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }