All 9 of September's SanctiM-track saints authored -- the first full month in this pass with nothing left unsourced. Includes the Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel, whose SanctiM file borrows structure from his separate May 8 Apparition file but still resolves its actual readings back to this day's own Tridentine content.
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readings" below — January-September done (93/107), ~56 candidates remain (October onward).
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- The bulk Vulgate (Latin) + Douay-Rheims (English) scripture import into
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- The bulk Vulgate (Latin) + Douay-Rheims (English) scripture import into
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`st-romanus` and `st-hermes` (both Common-only), `vigil-of-st-lawrence` (Nocturn 1 only, no
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`st-romanus` and `st-hermes` (both Common-only), `vigil-of-st-lawrence` (Nocturn 1 only, no
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Nocturn 2/3 content in either track). `npm test`/`tsc --noEmit` both pass.
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**Not done in this pass**: the remaining ~65 SanctiM-track candidates (September onward) — same
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candidate), `st-matthew`, `ss-maurice-and-companions` (missed pre-1955-pool), `st-linus`,
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`st-thecla` (missed pre-1955-pool), `ss-cosmas-and-damian`, `st-michael` (Dedication of St.
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`st-jerome`. `npm test`/`tsc --noEmit` both pass.
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**Not done in this pass**: the remaining ~56 SanctiM-track candidates (October onward) — same
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authoring shape, continue month by month.
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### Bible-plan TSV — bulk conversion done (2026-08)
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### Bible-plan TSV — bulk conversion done (2026-08)
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for the Nativity of the B.V.M. (Sep 8) —
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# Nocturn 2/3 override, so this feast's own proper content is sourced
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# from the Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see
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# memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
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# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-08.txt, English/Sancti/09-08.txt.
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# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous excerpt of St.
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# Augustine's sermon. No responsory given in the source for these
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# lessons.
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source: "St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Sermon 18 on the Saints"
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Adest nobis, dilectíssimi, optátus dies beátæ ac venerábilis semper Vírginis Maríæ;
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ídeo cum summa exsultatióne gáudeat terra nostra, tantæ Vírginis illustráta natáli. Hæc
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est enim flos campi, de qua ortum est pretiósum lílium convállium, per cujus partum
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mutátur natúra protoplastórum, delétur et culpa. Præcísum est in ea illud Hevæ
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infelicitátis elógium, quo dícitur: In dolóre páries fílios tuos; quia ista in lætítia
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Dóminum péperit.
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Heva enim luxit, ista exsultávit: Heva lácrimas, María gáudium in ventre portávit;
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quia illa peccatórem, ista édidit innocéntem. Mater géneris nostri pœnam íntulit mundo,
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Génetrix Dómini nostri salútem íntulit mundo. Auctrix peccáti Heva, auctrix mériti
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María. Heva occidéndo óbfuit, María vivificándo prófuit. Illa percússit, ista sanávit.
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Pro inobediéntia enim obediéntia commutátur, fides pro perfídia compensátur.
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Plaudat nunc órganis María, et inter velóces artículos týmpana puérperæ cóncrepent.
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Cóncinant lætántes chori, et alternántibus módulis dulcísona cármina misceántur.
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Audíte ígitur, quemádmodum tympanístria nostra cantáverit; ait enim: Magníficat ánima
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mea Dóminum: et exsultávit spíritus meus in Deo, salutári meo. Quia respéxit
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humilitátem ancíllæ suæ: ecce enim ex hoc beátam me dicent omnes generatiónes. Quia
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fecit mihi magna qui potens est. Causam ígitur invalescéntis erráti, miráculum novi
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partus evícit; et Hevæ planctum Maríæ cantus exclúsit.
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Dearly beloved brethren, the day for which we have longed, the Feast-day of the Blessed
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and Worshipful and Ever-Virgin Mary, that day is come. Let our land laugh and sing with
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merriment, bathed in the glory of this great Virgin's rising. She is the flower of the
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fields on which the priceless lily of the valleys hath blossomed. This is she whose
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delivery changed the nature that we draw from our first parents, and cleansed away their
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offence. At her that dolorous sentence which was pronounced over Eve ended its course; to
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her it was never said: In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children. She brought forth a
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Child, even the Lord, but she brought Him forth, not in sorrow, but in joy.
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Eve wept, but Mary laughed. Eve's womb was big with tears, but Mary's womb was big with
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gladness. Eve gave birth to a sinner, but Mary gave birth to the sinless One. The mother
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of our race brought punishment into the world, but the Mother of our Lord brought
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salvation into the world. Eve was the foundress of sin, but Mary was the foundress of
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righteousness. Eve welcomed death, but Mary helped in life. Eve smote, but Mary healed.
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For Eve's disobedience, Mary offered obedience, and for Eve's unbelief, Mary offered
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faith.
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Let Mary now make a loud noise upon the organ, and between its quick notes let the
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rattling of the Mother's timbrel be heard. Let the gladsome choirs sing with her, and
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their sweet hymns mingle with the changing music. Hearken to what a song her timbrel
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will make accompaniment. She saith: My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath
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rejoiced in God my Saviour. For He hath regarded the lowliness of His hand-maiden, for,
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behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed; for He That is Mighty
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hath done to me great things. The new miracle of Mary's delivery hath effaced the curse
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of the frail backslider, and the singing of Mary hath silenced the wailing of Eve.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs (Sep 27)
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# — SanctiM/09-27.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/09-27`) with no
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# Nocturn 2/3 override, so this feast's own proper content is sourced
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# from the Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see
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# memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
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# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-27.txt, English/Sancti/09-27.txt.
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# Lectio4-5 combined into one reading, one continuous vita — Lectio6
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# falls back to Common of Several Martyrs, not proper text, so not
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id: ss-cosmas-and-damian
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Cosmas et Damiánus, fratres Arabes, in Ægéa urbe nati, nóbiles médici, imperatóribus
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Diocletiáno et Maximiáno, non magis medicínæ sciéntia quam Christi virtúte, morbis
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étiam insanabílibus medebántur. Quorum religiónem cum Lysias præféctus cognovísset,
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addúci eos ad se jubet, ac de vivéndi institúto et de fídei professióne interrogátos,
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cum se et Christiános esse, et christiánam fidem esse ad salútem necessáriam, líbere
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prædicárent, deos venerári ímperat; et, si id recúsent, minátur cruciátus et necem
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acerbíssimam.
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Verum, ut se frustra hæc illis propónere intélligit: Colligáte, inquit, manus et
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pedes istórum, eósque exquisítis torquéte supplíciis. Quibus jussa exsequéntibus,
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nihilóminus Cosmas et Damiánus in senténtia persistébant. Quare, ut erant vincti, in
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profúndum mare jaciúntur. Unde cum salvi ac solúti essent egréssi, mágicis ártibus
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præféctus factum assígnans, in cárcerem tradit, ac postrídie edúctos in ardéntem
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rogum ínjici jubet; ubi, cum ab ipsis flamma refúgeret, várie et crudéliter tortos
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secúri pércuti vóluit. Itaque, in Jesu Christi confessióne, martýrii palmam
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accepérunt.
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Cosmas and Damian, who were eminent physicians in the time of the Emperors Diocletian
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and Maximian, were brothers, and Arabs by race, but born in the city of Aegae. Not more
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by their knowledge of medicine than by the power of Christ they healed diseases which
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had been hopeless for others. When the Praefect Lysias learnt to what faith they
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belonged, he commanded them to be brought before him, and questioned them as to their
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way of life, and the confession of their religion; and then, forasmuch as they freely
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owned themselves Christians and the Christian faith needful to salvation, he commanded
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them to worship the gods, under threats of torments and a most cruel death.
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He bond their hands and feet together, and put them to the sharpest of the question.
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And he was obeyed, but nevertheless Cosmas and Damian abode still of the same mind.
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Therefore they were cast into the depth of the sea, bound as they were, but they came
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forth again, whole and unbound. The Praefect, therefore, who would have it that it came
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to pass so by force of art magic, cast them into prison. On the morrow he haled them
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He was pleased then to have them tormented in diverse and cruel sorts, and lastly,
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smitten with the axe. Thus did they bear witness for Christ Jesus even until they
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grasped the palm of their testimony.
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Cum Maximiánus imperátor, ducto in Gálliam exercitu, in fínibus Sedunórum sacrifícii
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nuntiárent ut, si salvi esse vellent, in castra ad sacrifícia redírent: qui se
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christiána religióne impedíri respondérunt. Quorum respónsum ille indigníssime ferens,
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majori iracúndia quam antea exársit. Itaque, immíssa parte exércitus in Thebǽos,
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décimum quemque eórum primum occídi jussit; quod martýrium sua sponte, maximéque
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Seduni to offer a sacrifice. The Theban legion, that they might not be defiled by any
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Hadrian, Martyr (Sep 8, sharing the
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# date with the Nativity of the B.V.M. — see nativity-bvm.yml). No
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# genuine SanctiM match: the only SanctiM file for this date bases
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# `@Sancti/09-08` (the Nativity, not Hadrian) — a missed pre-1955-pool
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# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-08cc.txt, English/Sancti/09-08cc.txt.
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adoléscens est baptizatus, et in liberálibus disciplinis a Donato et aliis viris
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operam dedit; quo doctore se sacras litteras didicisse profitétur. Tum religiónis
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causa visit Christi Dómini incunábula, totamque lustrávit Palæstinam; quam
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peregrinatiónem, adhíbitis Hebræórum eruditíssimis, ad sacræ Scripturæ intelligéntiam
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sibi multum profuísse testátur.
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Deínde secessit in vastam Syriæ solitúdinem; ubi quadriennium in lectióne divinórum
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librórum cælestísque beatitúdinis contemplatióne consumpsit, assidua se abstinéntia,
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vi lacrimárum et corporis afflictatióne discrucians. Présbyter a Paulino episcopo
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Antiochíæ factus, Romam de controversiis quorúmdam episcopórum cum Paulino et
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Epiphanio ad Dámasum Pontificem profectus, ejus ecclesiásticis epistolis scribéndis
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adjútor fuit. Verum, cum prístinæ solitúdinis desidério tenerétur, in Palæstinam
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reversus, Bethlehem ad Christi Dómini præsepe, in monasterio quod a Paula Romana
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exstructum erat, cælestem quamdam vitæ ratiónem instituit; et, quamquam varie morbis
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doloribúsque tentarétur, tamen corporis incommoda piis labóribus et perpetua
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lectióne ac scriptióne superabat.
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Tamquam ad oraculum, ex ómnibus orbis terræ partibus, ad ipsum divinæ Scripturæ
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quæstiónes explicandæ referebántur. Illum Dámasus Pontifex, illum sanctus Augustinus
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de locis Scripturæ difficillimis sæpe consuluit, propter ejus singularem doctrinam, et
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linguæ non solum Latinæ et Græcæ, sed Hebráicæ étiam et Chaldáicæ, intelligéntiam; et
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quod omnes pene scriptores, ejusdem Augustíni testimonio, légerat. Hæreticos
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acerrimis scriptis exagitávit; piórum et catholicórum patrocinium semper suscépit.
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Vetus Testaméntum ex Hebræo convértit; novum, jussu Dámasi, Græcæ fidei réddidit,
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magna étiam ex parte explicávit. Multa præterea Latine réddidit scripta doctórum
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virórum, et ipse aliis proprii ingenii monuméntis christianam disciplínam
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illustrávit. Qui, ad summam senectútem perveniens, sanctitáte et doctrina illustris,
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Honorio imperatóre, migrávit in cælum. Cujus corpus, ad Bethlehem sepúltum, póstea
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Romam in basilicam sanctæ Maríæ ad Præsepe translátum est.
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en: >-
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Jerome was the son of one Eusebius, and was born at Sorigni, in Dalmatia, in the reign
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of the Emperor Constantius. He was baptised at Rome when a lad, and studied there,
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under the instruction of Donatus and other very learned personages. He travelled in
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Gaul for the sake of improving his mind, and there sought the friendship of diverse
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godly men learned in the Scriptures, and made with his own hand many copies of the holy
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books. He afterwards betook himself to Greece, where he attained eminence as a
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philosopher and orator, in the following of the most famous theologians. At
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Constantinople, in especial, he sat at the feet of Gregory of Nazianzus, from whom he
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professeth himself to have learnt his theology. Then, for godliness' sake, he went to
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see the home of the Lord Christ, and so throughout all Palestine. He witnesseth that
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this pilgrimage, wherein he got the help of the most learned of the Jews for the
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understanding of the Holy Scriptures, did him much good.
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He withdrew himself into the wild deserts of Syria, where he passed four years in
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studying the Holy Scriptures and in considering the blessedness of heaven, afflicting
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his body by alway denying himself, by bitter tears, and by chastisement of the flesh. He
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was ordained Priest by Paulinus, Patriarch of Antioch. He went to Rome on account of the
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quarrelling of certain Bishops with Paulinus and Epiphanius, and there helped Pope
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Damasus in the writing of his letters upon Church affairs. But the longing for his old
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solitude came upon him, and he went back to Palestine, where, in the monastery at
|
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Bethlehem, built beside the cradle of the Lord Christ by the Lady Paula of Rome, he set
|
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himself to enter on earth upon the life of heaven, serving God in reading and writing
|
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without ceasing, regardless of the sufferings of a body tormented by diverse diseases
|
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and pains.
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Hard questions upon the interpretation of the Holy Scripture were sent to him from all
|
||||||
|
parts of the earth, as to an oracle. He was oftentimes consulted by Pope Damasus and by
|
||||||
|
the holy Augustine upon the meaning of the most obscure passages of the Scripture,
|
||||||
|
because of his extraordinary learning, and that he knew not the Latin and Greek tongues
|
||||||
|
only, but also the Hebrew and Chaldee, and, as the same Augustine testifieth, had read
|
||||||
|
nearly all writers. He attacked heretics with keen publications, and ever undertook the
|
||||||
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defence of the godly and Catholic. He translated the Old Testament from Hebrew into
|
||||||
|
Latin, and, at the command of Damasus, reformed, according to the original Greek, the
|
||||||
|
existing version of the New. Upon great part of the Scriptures he wrote commentaries.
|
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|
He translated likewise into Latin the works of many learned men, and himself
|
||||||
|
contributed to the Christian life many monuments of his own wit. He lived to an
|
||||||
|
extreme old age, and passed away to heaven, famous for learning and holiness, in the
|
||||||
|
reign of the Emperor Honorius. His body was buried at Bethlehem, but hath since been
|
||||||
|
brought to Rome, where it lieth in the Church of St. Mary-at-the-Manger.
|
||||||
|
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||||
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
|
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|
# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Linus, Pope, Martyr (Sep 23,
|
||||||
|
# sharing the date with St. Thecla — see st-thecla.yml) —
|
||||||
|
# SanctiM/09-23.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/09-23`) with no
|
||||||
|
# Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own 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/09-23.txt, English/Sancti/09-23.txt.
|
||||||
|
# Lectio4 (Linus's own vita) and Lectio5-6 (St. Ambrose's exposition
|
||||||
|
# of Psalm 118 — the same excerpt already used, from a different
|
||||||
|
# sermon number, for `st-anacletus.yml`'s own Nocturn 2 in July; the
|
||||||
|
# reference engine reuses this exposition across several pope-martyr
|
||||||
|
# feasts) kept split. No responsory given in the source.
|
||||||
|
id: st-linus
|
||||||
|
readings:
|
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|
- nocturn: 2
|
||||||
|
isGospel: false
|
||||||
|
text:
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|
la: >-
|
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|
Linus Pontifex, Volaterris in Etruria natus, primus post Petrum gubernávit Ecclésiam.
|
||||||
|
Cujus tanta fides et sanctitas fuit, ut non solum dæmones ejiceret, sed étiam mórtuos
|
||||||
|
revocaret ad vitam. Scripsit res gestas beáti Petri, et ea maxime quæ ab illo acta sunt
|
||||||
|
contra Simónem magum. Sancívit ne qua mulier, nisi velato cápite, in ecclésiam
|
||||||
|
introíret. Huic Pontifici caput amputátum est ob constantiam fidei, jussu Saturnini
|
||||||
|
ímpii et ingratíssimi consularis, cujus filiam a dæmonum vexatióne liberaverat.
|
||||||
|
Sepultus est in Vaticano prope sepúlcrum Principis Apostolórum, nono Kalendas
|
||||||
|
Octobris. Sedit annos undecim, menses duos, dies viginti tres, creatis, bis mense
|
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|
Decembri, epíscopis quindecim, presbyteris decem et octo.
|
||||||
|
en: >-
|
||||||
|
Pope Linus was by birth a native of Velletri in Tuscany, and was the first after Peter
|
||||||
|
who governed the Church. His faith and holiness were such that he not only cast out
|
||||||
|
devils, but also raised the dead. He wrote the acts of Blessed Peter, and especially the
|
||||||
|
history of his strife with Simon Magus. He forbade women to enter the Church without
|
||||||
|
having a veil upon their heads. His own head was cut off, on account of his firmness in
|
||||||
|
confessing Christ, by command of the godless Consular Saturninus, an unthankful wretch
|
||||||
|
whose own daughter he had delivered from being tormented by a devil. He was buried upon
|
||||||
|
the Vatican Mount, hard by the grave of the Prince of the Apostles, upon the 23rd day of
|
||||||
|
September. He sat as Pope eleven years, two months, and twenty-three days. He held two
|
||||||
|
December ordinations, wherein he made fifteen Bishops, and eighteen Priests.
|
||||||
|
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- nocturn: 2
|
||||||
|
isGospel: false
|
||||||
|
source: "St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Exposition of Psalm 118, Sermon 1"
|
||||||
|
text:
|
||||||
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la: >-
|
||||||
|
Príncipes persecúti sunt me gratis: et a verbis tuis trepidávit cor meum. Bene hoc
|
||||||
|
Martyr dicit, quod injúste persecutiónum torménta sustineat; qui nihil rapúerit, nullum
|
||||||
|
violentus oppresserit, nullius sánguinem fuderit, nullius torum putaverit esse
|
||||||
|
violándum; qui nihil légibus debeat, et gravióra latronum sustinere cogátur supplícia;
|
||||||
|
qui loquátur juste, et non audiátur; qui loquátur plena salútis, et impugnétur, ut
|
||||||
|
possit dicere: Cum loquébar illis, impugnábant me gratis. Gratis ígitur persecutiónem
|
||||||
|
pátitur, qui impugnátur sine crimine; impugnátur ut noxius cum sit in tali confessióne
|
||||||
|
laudábilis; impugnátur quasi veneficus, qui in nómine Dómini gloriátur, cum pietas
|
||||||
|
virtútum ómnium fundaméntum sit.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Vere frustra impugnátur, qui apud ímpios et infidos impietátis arcessitur, cum fidei
|
||||||
|
sit magister. Verum, qui gratis impugnátur, fortis debet esse et constans; quómodo
|
||||||
|
ergo subtexuit: Et a verbis tuis trepidávit cor meum? Trepidare infirmitátis est,
|
||||||
|
timoris atque formidinis. Sed est étiam infirmitas ad salútem, est étiam timor
|
||||||
|
sanctórum: Timéte Dóminum, omnes sancti ejus; et, Beátus vir, qui timet Dóminum. Qua
|
||||||
|
ratióne beatus? Quia in mandatis ejus cupit nimis.
|
||||||
|
en: >-
|
||||||
|
Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
|
||||||
|
These are rightly the words of a martyr, who beareth unjustly the torments of the
|
||||||
|
persecutors, who hath robbed no man, who hath violently oppressed no man, who hath shed
|
||||||
|
the blood of no man, who hath imagined to defile the bed of no man, who is debtor to the
|
||||||
|
laws in nothing, and who is punished more grievously than if he were a robber; who
|
||||||
|
speaketh righteousness, and there is none that will hear; who speaketh salvation, and
|
||||||
|
all men fight against him; who is able to say: When I spoke unto them, they fought
|
||||||
|
against me without a cause. They fight against him without a cause, who can lay no sin
|
||||||
|
to his charge; they fight against him as an evildoer, who is by their own acknowledgement
|
||||||
|
righteous; they fight against him as a warlock, who glorieth in the name of the Lord, and
|
||||||
|
who doeth all things well because he doeth all things for God's sake.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
They fight against him in vain who is accused of ungodliness among the ungodly and the
|
||||||
|
unfaithful, because he teacheth Faith. Verily, him that is fought against without a cause
|
||||||
|
it behoveth to be strong and patient. Wherefore then saith he: My heart standeth in awe
|
||||||
|
of thy word? Awe is the mark of the weak, the timid, and the fearful. But there is also
|
||||||
|
a weakness unto salvation, there is a fear which is an holy fear. O fear the Lord, all
|
||||||
|
ye His Saints. And again: Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord. And wherefore is he
|
||||||
|
blessed? Because he delighteth greatly in His commandments.
|
||||||
|
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||||
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
|
|||||||
|
# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Matthew, Apostle, Evangelist
|
||||||
|
# (Sep 21) — SanctiM/09-21.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/09-21`)
|
||||||
|
# with no Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint'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/09-21.txt, English/Sancti/09-21.txt.
|
||||||
|
#
|
||||||
|
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-5 combined into one reading, one continuous vita
|
||||||
|
# — Lectio6 falls back to Common of an Evangelist, not proper text, so
|
||||||
|
# not authored here.
|
||||||
|
# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Matt 9:9-13) is a bare incipit
|
||||||
|
# ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so — per the
|
||||||
|
# pre-1955 pass's convention of not transcribing bare incipits — only
|
||||||
|
# the homily portion is authored (not marked isGospel), a single
|
||||||
|
# excerpt of St. Jerome's commentary. No responsory given for either
|
||||||
|
# reading.
|
||||||
|
id: st-matthew
|
||||||
|
readings:
|
||||||
|
- nocturn: 2
|
||||||
|
isGospel: false
|
||||||
|
text:
|
||||||
|
la: >-
|
||||||
|
Matthǽus, qui et Levi, Apóstolus et Evangelísta, Caphárnai cum ad telónium sedéret, a
|
||||||
|
Christo vocátus, statim secútus est ipsum; quem étiam cum réliquis discípulis convívio
|
||||||
|
excépit. Post Christi resurrectiónem, ántequam in provínciam proficiscerétur, quæ ei
|
||||||
|
ad prædicándum obtígerat, primus in Judǽa, propter eos qui ex circumcisióne
|
||||||
|
credíderant, Evangélium Jesu Christi Hebráice scripsit. Mox in Æthiópiam proféctus,
|
||||||
|
Evangélium prædicávit, ac prædicatiónem multis miráculis confirmávit.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Illo ígitur in primis miráculo, quo regis fíliam a mórtuis excitávit, regem patrem et
|
||||||
|
uxórem ejus cum univérsa província ad Christi fidem convértit. Rege mórtuo, Hírtacus,
|
||||||
|
ejus succéssor, cum Iphigeníam, régiam fíliam, vellet sibi dari in matrimónium;
|
||||||
|
Matthǽum, cujus ópera illa virginitátem Deo vóverat et in sancto propósito
|
||||||
|
perseverábat, ad altáre mystérium celebrántem jussit occídi. Qui undécimo caléndas
|
||||||
|
octóbris munus apostólicum martýrii glória cumulávit. Cujus corpus Salérnum
|
||||||
|
translátum, ac póstmodum in ecclésia ejus nómine dedicáta, Gregório séptimo summo
|
||||||
|
Pontífice, cónditum, ibídem magno hóminum concúrsu ac pietáte cólitur.
|
||||||
|
en: >-
|
||||||
|
It came to pass one day at Capernaum, that Christ went forth, and saw a publican, named
|
||||||
|
Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom; and He said unto him: Follow Me. And he left
|
||||||
|
all, rose up, and followed Him. And Levi made Him a great feast in his own house. This
|
||||||
|
Levi is the Apostle and Evangelist Matthew. After that Christ was risen again from the
|
||||||
|
dead, and while he was yet in Judea, before he set forth for that land which had fallen
|
||||||
|
to the lot of his preaching, he wrote the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Hebrew tongue,
|
||||||
|
for the sake of them of the circumcision who had believed. His was the first written of
|
||||||
|
the four Gospels. Thereafter he went to Ethiopia, and there preached the Gospel,
|
||||||
|
confirming his preaching with many miracles.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Of his miracles, the most notable was that he raised the King's daughter from the dead,
|
||||||
|
and thereby brought to believe in Christ the King her father, his wife, and all that
|
||||||
|
region. After that the King was dead, Hirtacus, who came after him, was fain to take his
|
||||||
|
daughter Iphigenia to wife, but by the exhortation of Matthew she had made vow of her
|
||||||
|
maidenhood to God, and stood firm to that holy resolution, for which cause Hirtacus
|
||||||
|
commanded to slay the Apostle at the Altar while he was performing the mystery. He
|
||||||
|
crowned the dignity of the Apostleship with the glory of martyrdom upon the 21st day of
|
||||||
|
September. His body had been brought to Salerno, where it was afterwards buried in a
|
||||||
|
Church dedicated in his name during the papacy of Gregory VII, and there it is held in
|
||||||
|
great worship and sought to by great gatherings of people.
|
||||||
|
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- nocturn: 3
|
||||||
|
isGospel: false
|
||||||
|
source: "St. Jerome, Priest, Commentary on Matthew, Bk. 1 (on Matt 9:9-13)"
|
||||||
|
text:
|
||||||
|
la: >-
|
||||||
|
Céteri Evangelístæ, propter verecúndiam et honórem Matthǽi, noluérunt eum nómine
|
||||||
|
appelláre vulgáto, sed dixérunt, Levi; dúplici quippe vocábulo fuit. Ipse autem
|
||||||
|
Matthǽus (secúndum illud quod dícitur a Salomóne: Justus accusátor est sui in
|
||||||
|
princípio sermónis; et in álio loco: Dic tu peccáta tua, ut justificéris) Matthǽum se
|
||||||
|
et publicanum nóminat, ut osténdat legéntibus nullum debére salútem desperáre, si ad
|
||||||
|
melióra convérsus sit, cum ipse de publicáno in Apóstolum sit repénte mutátus.
|
||||||
|
en: >-
|
||||||
|
The other Evangelists, out of tenderness towards the reputation and honour of Matthew,
|
||||||
|
have abstained from speaking of him as a publican by his ordinary name, and have called
|
||||||
|
him Levi. Both names were his. But Matthew himself, according to what Solomon saith: The
|
||||||
|
just man is the first to accuse himself, and again, in another place: Declare thou thy
|
||||||
|
sins that thou mayest be justified, doth plainly call himself Matthew the publican, to
|
||||||
|
show unto his readers that none need be hopeless of salvation if he will but strive to do
|
||||||
|
better, since he himself had been all of a sudden changed from a publican into an
|
||||||
|
Apostle.
|
||||||
|
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||||
@@ -0,0 +1,174 @@
|
|||||||
|
# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for the Dedication of St. Michael the
|
||||||
|
# Archangel (Sep 29) — SanctiM/09-29.txt's own structure borrows from
|
||||||
|
# `SanctiM/05-08` (St. Michael's own May 8 Apparition file) but its
|
||||||
|
# Officium and Lectio5-12 resolve back to `@Sancti/09-29:LectioN`
|
||||||
|
# (resliced), 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/09-29.txt, English/Sancti/09-29.txt.
|
||||||
|
#
|
||||||
|
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 (Pope St. Gregory the Great's homily on the
|
||||||
|
# nine choirs of Angels) combined into one reading, one continuous
|
||||||
|
# excerpt.
|
||||||
|
# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Matt 18:1-10) is a bare
|
||||||
|
# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so — per
|
||||||
|
# the pre-1955 pass's convention of not transcribing bare incipits —
|
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source: "Pope St. Gregory the Great, Homily 34 on the Gospels"
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Novem Angelórum órdines dícimus, quia vidélicet esse, testánte sacro elóquio, scimus:
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Angelos, Archángelos, Virtútes, Potestátes, Principátus, Dominatiónes, Thronos,
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Chérubim atque Séraphim. Esse namque Angelos et Archángelos pene omnes sacri elóquii
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páginæ testántur. Chérubim vero atque Séraphim sæpe, ut notum est, libri prophetárum
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loquúntur. Quátuor quoque órdinum nómina Paulus Apóstolus ad Ephésios enúmerat,
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dicens: Supra omnem Principátum, et Potestátem, et Virtútem, et Dominatiónem. Qui
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rursus ad Colossénses scribens, ait: Sive Throni, sive Potestátes, sive Principátus,
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sive Dominatiónes. Dum ergo illis quátuor, quæ ad Ephésios dixit, conjungúntur Throni,
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quinque sunt órdines; quibus dum Angeli et Archángeli, Chérubim atque Séraphim adjúncta
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sunt, procul dúbio novem esse Angelórum órdines inveniúntur.
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Sciéndum vero quod Angelórum vocábulum nomen est offícii, non natúræ. Nam sancti illi
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cæléstis pátriæ Spíritus, semper quidem sunt Spíritus, sed semper vocári Angeli
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nequáquam possunt; quia tunc solum sunt Angeli, cum per eos áliqua nuntiántur. Unde et
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per Psalmístam dícitur: Qui facit Angelos suos spíritus; ac si paténter dicat: Qui eos,
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quos semper habet Spíritus, étiam, cum volúerit, Angelos facit. Hi autem qui mínima
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núntiant, Angeli; qui vero summa annúntiant, Archángeli vocántur. Hinc est enim quod
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ad Maríam Vírginem non quílibet Angelus, sed Gábriel Archángelus míttitur. Ad hoc
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quippe ministérium, summum Angelum veníre dignum fúerat, qui summum ómnium
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nuntiábat. Qui idcírco étiam privátis nomínibus censéntur, ut signétur per vocábula,
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étiam in operatióne quid váleant. Míchaël namque, Quis ut Deus? Gábriel autem,
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Fortitúdo Dei; Ráphaël vero dícitur Medicína Dei.
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Et quóties miræ virtútis áliquid ágitur, Míchaël mitti perhibétur; ut ex ipso actu et
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nómine detur intéllegi quia nullus potest fácere, quod fácere prǽvalet Deus. Unde et
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ille antíquus hostis, qui Deo esse per supérbiam símilis concupívit, dicens: In cælum
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conscéndam, super astra cæli exaltábo sólium meum, símilis ero Altíssimo; dum in fine
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mundi in sua virtúte relinquétur extrémo supplício periméndus, cum Michaéle Archángelo
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præliatúrus esse perhibétur, sicut per Joánnem dícitur: Factum est prǽlium cum
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Michaéle Archángelo. Ad Maríam quoque Gábriel míttitur, qui Dei Fortitúdo nominátur;
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illum quippe nuntiáre veniébat, qui ad debellándas aéreas potestátes húmilis
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appárere dignátus est. Ráphaël quoque interpretátur, ut díximus, Medicína Dei; quia
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vidélicet, dum Tobíæ óculos quasi per offícium curatiónis tétigit, cæcitátis ejus
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ténebras tersit.
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We say that there are nine Orders of Angels, for, by the witness of the holy Word, we
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know that there be Angels, Archangels, Mights, Powers, Principalities, Dominions,
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Thrones, Cherubim, and Seraphim. Nearly every page of the holy Word witnesseth that
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there be Angels and Archangels. The books of the Prophets, as is well known, do
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oftentimes make mention of Cherubim and Seraphim. Paul, writing to the Ephesians,
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counteth up the names of four Orders, where he saith: The Father of glory raised Christ
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from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all
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Principality, and Power, and Might, and Dominion. And the same, again, writing to the
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Colossians, saith: By the Son were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are
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in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be Thrones, or Dominions, or
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Principalities, or Powers. If, then, we add the Thrones to the four Orders of which he
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spake unto the Ephesians, we have five Orders; and when we add unto them the Angels and
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the Archangels, the Cherubim and the Seraphim, we find that the Orders of Angels are
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beyond all doubt nine.
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But we must know that the word Angel is the designation, not of a nature, but of an
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office. Those holy spirits in the heavenly fatherland are always spirits, but they may
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no wise be always called Angels, which is, being interpreted, messengers, for they are
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Angels only when they are sent as Messengers. Hence also it is said by the Psalmist: Who
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makest spirits thine Angels! As if it were: Of them who are always with Him as spirits,
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He doth somewhiles make use as Messengers. They who go on the lesser messages are called
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Angels; they who go on the greater, Archangels. Hence it is that unto the Virgin Mary was
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sent no common Angel, but the Archangel Gabriel. For the delivery of this, the highest
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message, it was meet that there should be sent the highest Angel. Their individual names
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also are so given as to signify the kind of ministry wherein each is powerful. Michael
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signifieth: Who-is-like-unto-God? Gabriel, the Strength-of-God, and Raphael, the
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Medicine-of-God.
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As often as anything very mighty is to be done, we see that Michael is sent, that by
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that very thing, and by his name, we may remember that none is able to do as God doeth.
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Hence that old enemy whose pride hath puffed him up to be fain to be like unto God, even
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he who said, I will ascend unto heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I
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will be like the Most High, this old enemy, when at the end of the world he is about to
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perish in the last death, having no strength but his own, is shown unto us a-fighting
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with Michael the Archangel, even as saith John: There was war in heaven; Michael and his
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Angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels. Unto Mary is
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sent Gabriel, whose name is interpreted the Strength of God, for he came to herald the
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appearing of Him Who was content to appear lowly that He might fight down the powers of
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the air. Raphael, also, as we have said, signifieth the Medicine-of-God, and it is the
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name of him who touched as a physician the eyes of Tobias, and cleared away his
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blindness.
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status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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- nocturn: 3
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isGospel: false
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source: "St. Jerome, Priest, Commentary on Matthew, Bk. 3 (on Matt 18:1-10)"
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text:
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la: >-
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Post invéntum statérem, post tribúta réddita, quid sibi vult Apostolórum repentína
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interrogátio, Quis, putas, major est in regno cælórum? Quia víderant pro Petro et
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Dómino idem tribútum rédditum, ex æqualitáte prétii arbitráti sunt Petrum ómnibus
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Apóstolis esse prælátum, qui in redditióne tribúti Dómino fúerat comparátus; ídeo
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intérrogant quis major sit in regno cælórum. Vidénsque Jesus cogitatiónes eórum, et
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causas erróris intéllegens, vult desidérium glóriæ, humilitátis contentióne, sanáre.
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Si autem manus tua vel pes tuus scandalízat te, abscínde eum et próice abs te. Necésse
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est quidem veníre scándala; væ tamen ei est hómini, qui, quod necésse est ut fiat in
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mundo, vítio suo facit ut per se fiat. Igitur omnis truncátur afféctus et univérsa
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propínquitas amputátur, ne per occasiónem pietátis unusquísque credéntium scándalis
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páteat. Si, inquit, ita est quis tibi conjúnctus, ut manus, pes, óculus; et est útilis
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atque sollícitus, et acútus ad perspiciéndum, scándalum autem tibi facit, et propter
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dissonántiam morum te pértrahit in gehénnam: mélius est ut et propinquitáte ejus et
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emoluméntis carnálibus cáreas, ne, dum vis lucri fácere cognátos et necessários,
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causam hábeas ruinárum.
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Dico vobis quia Angeli eórum in cælis semper vident fáciem Patris mei. Supra díxerat,
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per manum et pedem et óculum, omnes propinquitátes et necessitúdines, quæ scándalum
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fácere póterant, amputándas; austeritátem, ítaque senténtiæ subjécto præcépto
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témperat, dicens: Vidéte ne contemnátis unum ex pusíllis istis. Sic, inquit, præcípio
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severitátem, ut commiscéri cleméntiam dóceam. Quia Angeli eórum in cælis vident semper
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fáciem Patris. Magna dígnitas animárum, ut unaquǽque hábeat ab ortu nativitátis, in
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custódiam sui, Angelum delegátum. Unde légimus in Apocalýpsi Joánnis: Angelo Ephesi,
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et reliquárum ecclesiárum, scribe hæc. Apóstolus quoque prǽcipit velári cápita, in
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ecclésiis, feminárum propter Angelos.
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en: >-
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After the finding of the piece of money in the fish's mouth, after the payment of the
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tribute, what meaneth this sudden question of the Apostles? Who is the greatest in the
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kingdom of heaven? They had seen that the same tribute-money was paid for Peter as for
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the Lord, and from this equality of reckoning they gathered that Peter was Prince of all
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the Apostles, seeing that he had been appraised at the same price as his Master.
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Therefore they ask, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus, seeing
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their thoughts, and understanding wherefore they erred, is fain to take away the desire
|
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of glory by the love of lowliness.
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Therefore, if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee;
|
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for it must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom the offence
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cometh! because by his sin he maketh, and maketh to be his own work, that which must
|
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needs be in the world. Away, then, with every affection and every kinship, lest thy love
|
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should throw a stumbling-block before a single believer. Be there any, saith He, who is
|
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as near to thee as thine hand, thy foot, or thine eye, useful, careful, far-seeing, but
|
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who layeth a stumbling-block before thee, and whose diverse way of life may draw thee to
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hell; it is better for thee to lose such an one and thy worldly happiness with him, than
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to live surrounded by them that are near and needful to thee, and to pile up unto
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thyself damnation.
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I say unto you that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of My Father.
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Above, He had said that every tie of kinship or of convenience which might become a
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stumbling-block, albeit close and needful as hand, or foot, or eye, was to be cut off,
|
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but here He softeneth the hardness of that precept: Take heed that ye despise not one of
|
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these little ones. Hardness, saith He, I command not save as teaching tenderness withal;
|
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in heaven their Angels do always behold the face of My Father. Oh, how great is the
|
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dignity of souls, whereof every one hath from its birth an Angel appointed to guard it!
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Hence, we read in the Revelation of John: unto the Angel of the Church of Ephesus, and
|
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so of the others, write, and so on. And the Apostle Paul also saith: The woman ought to
|
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have a covering on her head, because of the Angels.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Thecla, Virgin, Martyr (Sep 23,
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# sharing the date with St. Linus — see st-linus.yml). No genuine
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# SanctiM match: the only SanctiM file for this date bases
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# `@Sancti/09-23` (Linus, not Thecla) — a missed pre-1955-pool
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# candidate rather than a genuine SanctiM case (see memory
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# vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
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# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-23cc.txt, English/Sancti/09-23cc.txt.
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# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no
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id: st-thecla
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readings:
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Thecla virgo, ex illustribus paréntibus Iconii nata, a Paulo Apóstolo fidei præceptis
|
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instituta, miris sanctórum Patrum laudibus celebrátur. Quæ décimum octavum annum
|
||||||
|
agens, Thamíride sponso relícto, cum eam paréntes, quod Christiana esset,
|
||||||
|
accusassent, in ardentem rogum, qui, nisi Christo renuntiáret, ei parátus erat, prius
|
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signo crucis armata, seipsam injecit. Sed igne, plúvia quæ repénte exorta est,
|
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exstincto, Antiochíam venit; ubi, feris objecta et tauris in diversa incitátis
|
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|
alligata, mox conjecta in fossam plenam serpéntibus, ex ómnibus Jesu Christi grátia
|
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liberátur. Cujus ardore fidei et vitæ sanctitáte multi ad Christum convérsi sunt.
|
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Iterum in pátriam rédiens, in montem sola secessit. Deínde, multis virtútibus et
|
||||||
|
miraculis insígnis, nonagenaria migrávit ad Dóminum, ac Seleucíæ sepúlta est.
|
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en: >-
|
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This virgin Thecla was the daughter of noble parents at Iconium, and a disciple of the
|
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|
Apostle Paul. She is the subject of extraordinary praises by the holy Fathers. In the
|
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eighteenth year of her age, she parted from one Thamiris, to whom she had been
|
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betrothed, and her kindred accused her of being a Christian. A pile was set a-fire for
|
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|
her, unless she should deny Christ, but she made the sign of the Cross, and willingly
|
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|
entered it, and rain came, and put out the fire. She came to Antioch, where they threw
|
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|
her to wild beasts; and strove to tear her asunder, by tying her to oxen driven
|
||||||
|
different ways; and cast her into a pit with many snakes; but by the mercy of Jesus
|
||||||
|
Christ she was delivered from all. The warmth of her faith and the holiness of her life
|
||||||
|
brought many to Christ. She returned into her own country, and withdrew to be an
|
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hermit, alone on a certain mountain, and passed away to be with the Lord, aged ninety
|
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years, and famous for many good works and miracles. She was buried at Seleucia.
|
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|
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
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