From 7de09f28657de0b292e0b18208df57aeab481026 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Estes Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:31:34 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add March Matins readings for SanctiM-track saints All 6 of March's SanctiM-track saints authored. St. Benedict's own patronal feast turns out to be the richest case in this pass so far: its Nocturn 3 is genuinely Monastic-only content (a St. Peter Damian sermon) absent from the Tridentine track entirely, unlike every other saint done so far where the SanctiM file just reslices the same Tridentine text. Also caught a case (St. Gregory the Great) where a saint's SanctiM file carries content copied verbatim from an unrelated feast rather than anything proper to the saint himself. --- TODO.md | 15 +- .../nocturn-readings/forty-holy-martyrs.yml | 90 ++++++++ .../propers/nocturn-readings/st-benedict.yml | 201 ++++++++++++++++++ .../nocturn-readings/st-frances-of-rome.yml | 102 +++++++++ .../nocturn-readings/st-gregory-the-great.yml | 116 ++++++++++ .../propers/nocturn-readings/st-joseph.yml | 66 ++++++ .../nocturn-readings/st-thomas-aquinas.yml | 99 +++++++++ 7 files changed, 687 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/forty-holy-martyrs.yml create mode 100644 src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-benedict.yml create mode 100644 src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-frances-of-rome.yml create mode 100644 src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-gregory-the-great.yml create mode 100644 src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-joseph.yml create mode 100644 src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-thomas-aquinas.yml diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md index 093b517..de98261 100644 --- a/TODO.md +++ b/TODO.md @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ across every hour and content type in this app. saints (Tridentine/Divino Afflatu-sourced, no Monastic 1617 track) are now done — see "Pre-1955 saints' Matins readings" below. The larger pool of saints that *do* have a Monastic 1617 track (`SanctiM/`) is in progress — see "SanctiM-track saints' Matins - readings" below — January and February done (19/23), ~130 candidates remain (March onward). + readings" below — January-March done (25/29), ~124 candidates remain (April onward). - 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. @@ -1429,7 +1429,18 @@ incipit line under `isGospel: true` despite not having the full pericope text. T file is left as-is (not wrong, just an earlier, less clean judgment call) — this convention applies going forward. -**Not done in this pass**: the remaining ~130 SanctiM-track candidates (March onward) — same +**March done (6/6 saints)**: `st-thomas-aquinas`, `st-frances-of-rome`, `forty-holy-martyrs`, +`st-gregory-the-great` (Lectio7-9's Gospel+homily is generic Chair-of-Peter content copied +verbatim into this file, unrelated to Gregory — same lessons as +`chair-of-st-peter-at-rome.yml`'s own sourcing, not proper to this feast, so not authored +here), `st-joseph`, `st-benedict` (Duplex I class patronal feast — the richest SanctiM case yet: +Nocturn 2 sourced from `Sancti/03-21.txt`'s own vita per the usual pattern, but Nocturn 3 is +**genuinely Monastic-only content not found in `Sancti/` at all** — a St. Peter Damian sermon +preached specifically for Benedict's own feast; no `English/SanctiM/03-21.txt` exists in the +reference engine, so `en` for that reading is this project's own translation, marked `draft`). +`npm test`/`tsc --noEmit` both pass. + +**Not done in this pass**: the remaining ~124 SanctiM-track candidates (April onward) — same authoring shape, continue month by month. ### Bible-plan TSV — bulk conversion done (2026-08) diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/forty-holy-martyrs.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/forty-holy-martyrs.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3741bd2 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/forty-holy-martyrs.yml @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for the Forty Holy Martyrs of Sebaste (Mar +# 10) — SanctiM/03-10.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/03-10`) +# 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/03-10.txt, English/Sancti/03-10.txt. +# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous account, no +# genuine source break. Lectio7-9 fall back to Common of Several +# Martyrs (`Commune/C3`), not proper text, so not authored here. No +# responsory given in the source for Lectio4-6. +id: forty-holy-martyrs +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Licinio imperatore, et Agricolao præside, ad Sebasten Armeniæ urbem, quadraginta militum + fides in Jesum Christum, et fortitudo in cruciatibus perferendis enituit. Qui sæpius in + horribilem carcerem detrusi, vinculisque constricti, cum ora ipsorum lapidibus contusa + fuíssent, hiemis tempore frigidissimo nudi sub aperto aëre supra stagnum rigens pernoctare + jussi sunt, ut frigore congelati necarentur. Una autem erat omnium oratio: Quadraginta in + stadium ingressi sumus, quadraginta item Domine corona donemur, ne una quidem huic numero + desit. Est in honore hic numerus, quem tu quadraginta dierum jejunio decorasti, per quem + divina lex ingressa est in orbem terrarum. Elias quadraginta dierum jejunio Deum quærens, + ejus visionem consecutus est. Et hæc quidem illorum erat oratio. + + + Ceteris autem custodibus somno deditis, solus vigilabat janitor, qui et illos orantes, et + luce circumfusos, et quosdam e cælo descendentes Angelos tamquam a Rege missos, qui + coronas triginta novem militibus distribuerent intuens ita secum loquebatur: Quadraginta + hi sunt: quadragesimi corona ubi est? Quæ dum cogitaret, unus ex illo numero, cui animus ad + frigus ferendum defecerat in proximum tepefactum balneum desiliens, sanctos illos summo + dolore affecit. Verum Deus illorum preces irritas esse non est passus: nam rei eventum + admiratus janitor, mox custodibus e somno excitatis, detractisque sibi vestibus, ac se + Christianum esse clara voce professus, Martyribus se adjunxit. Cum vero præsidis satellites + janitorem quoque Christianum esse cognovissent bacillis comminuta omnium eorum crura + fregerunt. + + + In eo supplicio mortui sunt omnes, præter Melithonem natu minimum. Quem cum præsens mater + ejus, fractis cruribus, adhuc viventem vidisset, sic cohortata est: Fili, paulisper + sustine; ecce Christus ad januam stat adjuvans te. Cum vero reliquorum corpora plaustris + imponi cerneret, ut in rogum inférrentur, ac filium suum relinqui, quod speraret impia + turba puerum, si vixisset, ad idolorum cultum revocari posse; ipso in humeros sublato, + sancta mater vehicula Mártyrum corporibus onusta strenue prosequebatur: in cujus amplexu + Melithon spiritum Deo reddidit, ejusque corpus in eumdem illum ceterorum Mártyrum rogum + pia mater injecit: ut qui fide et virtute conjunctissimi fuerant, funeris étiam societate + copulati, una in cælum pervenirent. Combustis illis, eorum reliquiæ projectæ in + profluentem, cum mirabiliter in unum confluxissent locum, salvæ et integræ repertæ, + honorifico sepulchro conditæ sunt. + en: >- + While Licinius was Emperor and Agricolaus President, forty soldiers at Sebaste, a city of + Armenia, gave a singular instance of faith in Jesus Christ, and bravery under suffering. + After being often remanded to an horrid prison-house, bound in fetters, and their mouths + bruised with stones, they were ordered out in the depth of winter, stripped naked, and put + upon a frozen pool, to die of cold during the night. The prayer of them all was the same: O + Lord, forty of us have begun to run in the race, grant that all forty may receive the + crown, let not one be wanting at the last. Behold, is it not an honourable number in thy + sight, Who didst bless the fast of forty days, and at the end thy Divine Law came forth to + the earth? When also Elias sought thee, Thou, O God, didst reveal thyself unto him when he + had fasted for forty days. Even so was their petition. + + + When the keepers were all asleep and the watchman only was awake, he heard them praying + and saw a light shining round about them, and Angels coming down from heaven, as the + messengers of the King, bearing nine-and-thirty crowns, and distributing them to the + soldiers. Then he said within himself: Are not forty here? Where is the crown of the + fortieth? And as he looked he saw one of them whose courage could not bear the cold, come + and leap into a warm bath that stood by; and the Saints were grievously afflicted. + Nevertheless God suffered not that their prayer should return unto them void; for the + watchman wondered, and called the keepers, and stripped himself of his clothes; and, when + with a loud voice he had confessed himself a Christian, he joined the Martyrs. When the + servants of the President knew that the watchman also was a Christian, they brake the legs + of them all with staves. + + + Under this torment died they all, saving Melithon, who was the youngest. Now, his mother + stood by, and when she saw that his legs were broken, but that he was yet alive, she cried, + and said: My son, have patience but a little longer. Behold how Christ standeth at the door + to help thee. When she saw the bodies of all the others put upon carts and taken away to + be burned, and that her son was left behind, because the multitude wickedly hoped that + being but a lad, if he lived, he might yet be drawn to commit idolatry, the holy mother + took him on her own shoulders and bravely followed behind the carts laden with the bodies + of the Martyrs. In her arms Melithon gave up his soul to God, and the mother who loved him + so well laid his body with her own hands upon the pile, with those of the other Martyrs, + that, as they had all been one in faith and strength, in death they might not be divided, + and might enter heaven together. After the burning, what remained of them was thrown into + a running stream, but the ashes were all washed together into one place, and being found + and rescued, they were laid in an honourable sepulchre. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-benedict.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-benedict.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..65bb03c --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-benedict.yml @@ -0,0 +1,201 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Benedict, Abbot, patron of the +# Monastic rite (Mar 21, Duplex I class) — SanctiM/03-21.txt is a +# richer case than most SanctiM files: Lectio1-4 (Nocturn 1) fall back +# to Common of an Abbot; Lectio5-8 resolve back to +# `@Sancti/03-21:Lectio4-6` (resliced, same vita text as the Tridentine +# track — see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints); +# but Lectio9-12 are the Monastic office's *own* content, not found in +# `Sancti/03-21.txt` at all — a homily by St. Peter Damian preached +# specifically "In Natal. S. Bened. Abb.", genuinely proper to this +# feast in the Monastic rite. +# +# Nocturn 2: `Sancti/03-21.txt`/`English/Sancti/03-21.txt` Lectio4-6 +# combined into one reading, one continuous vita (drawn from St. +# Gregory the Great's Dialogues, Bk. 2, the classic Life of St. +# Benedict), no genuine source break. +# Nocturn 3: `SanctiM/03-21.txt` Lectio9's Gospel citation (Matt +# 19:27-29) is a bare incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text +# given, so — per the pre-1955 pass's convention of not transcribing +# bare incipits — only the homily portion is authored (not marked +# isGospel), combined with Lectio10-12 as one continuous excerpt of St. +# Peter Damian's sermon. No English/SanctiM translation exists for +# this file in the reference engine, so `en` for the Nocturn 3 reading +# is this project's own translation, marked `draft` per +# vu-prefer-text-over-missing. No responsory given for either reading. +id: st-benedict +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Benedíctus, Núrsiæ nóbili génere ortus, Romæ liberálibus disciplínis erudítus, ut totum + se Jesu Christo daret, ad eum locum, qui Sublácus dícitur, in altíssimam spelúncam + penetrávit; in qua sic per triénnium delítuit, ut unus id sciret Románus mónachus, quo + ad vitæ necessitátem minístro utebátur. Dum ígitur ei quodam die ardéntes ad libídinem + faces a diábolo subjiceréntur, se in vépribus támdiu volutávit, dum, laceráto córpore, + voluptátis sensus dolóre opprimerétur. Sed jam erumpénte ex illis látebris fama ejus + sanctitátis, quidam mónachi se illi instituéndos tradidérunt: quorum vivéndi licéntia cum + ejus objurgatiónes ferre non posset, venénum in potióne ei dare constítuunt. Verum, + póculum ei præbéntibus, crucis signo vas confrégit, ac relícto monastério in solitúdinem + se recépit. + + + Sed cum multi ad eum quotídie discípuli convenírent, duódecim monastéria ædificávit, + éaque sanctíssimis légibus communívit. Póstea Cassínum migrávit, ubi simulácrum Apóllinis, + qui adhuc ibi colebátur, commínuit, aram evértit et lucos succéndit; ibíque sancti + Martíni sacéllum et sancti Joánnis ædículam exstrúxit, oppidános autem et íncolas + christiánis præcéptis ímbuit. Quare augebátur in dies magis divína grátia Benedíctus, ut + étiam prophético spíritu ventúra prædíceret. Quod ubi accépit Tótila Gothórum rex, + exploratúrus, an res ita esset, spathárium suum régio ornátu et comitátu præmíttit, qui + se regem simuláret. Quem ut ille vidit, Depóne, inquit, fili, depóne quod geris; nam tuum + non est. Tótilæ vero prædíxit advéntum ejus in Urbem, maris transmissiónem, et post + novem annos mortem. + + + Qui áliquot ménsibus ántequam e vita migráret, præmónuit discípulos, quo die esset + moritúrus; ac sepúlcrum, in quo suum corpus condi vellet, sex diébus ántequam eo + inferrétur, aperíri jussit: sextóque die deférri vóluit in ecclésiam; ubi, sumpta + Eucharístia, sublátis in cælum óculis orans, inter manus discipulórum efflávit ánimam: + quam duo mónachi eúntem in cælum vidérunt, pállio ornátum pretiosíssimo, circum eam + fulgéntibus lampádibus, et claríssima et gravíssima spécie virum, stantem supra caput + ipsíus, dicéntem audiérunt: Hæc est via, qua diléctus Dómini Benedíctus in cælum + ascéndit. + en: >- + Benedict was born of a noble family at Norcia, and studied letters at Rome. Desiring to + give himself altogether to Christ Jesus, he betook himself to a very deep cave at the + place now called Subiaco. In this place he lay hid for three years, unknown to all except + the monk Romanus, by means of whom he received the necessaries of life. While he was in + the cave at Subiaco, the devil one day assailed him with an extraordinary storm of impure + temptation, and to get it under, he rolled himself in brambles till his whole body was + lacerated, and the sting of pain drove out the sallies of lust. At last the fame of his + holiness spread itself abroad from the desert, and some monks came to him for guidance, + but the looseness of their lives was such that they could not bear his exhortations, and + they plotted together to poison him in his drink. When they gave him the cup, he made the + sign of the Cross over it, whereupon it immediately broke, and Benedict left that + monastery, and retired to a desert place alone. + + + Nevertheless his disciples followed him daily, and for them he built twelve monasteries, + and set holy laws to govern them. Afterwards he went to Cassino, and brake the image of + Apollo which was still worshipped there, overturned the altar, and burnt the groves. + There he built the Church of St Martin and the little chapel of St. John; and instilled + Christianity into the townspeople and inhabitants. He grew in the grace of God day by + day, so that being endowed with the spirit of prophecy he foretold things to come. When + Totila, King of the Goths, heard of it, and would see whether it really were so, he sent + his Spatharius before him, with the kingly ensigns and attendance, and feigning himself + to be Totila. But as soon as Benedict saw him he said: My son, put off that which thou + wearest, for it is not thine. To Totila himself he foretold that he would go to Rome, + would cross the sea, and would die after nine years. + + + Some months before he departed this life, Benedict forewarned his disciples on what day + he was to die; and he ordered his grave to be opened six days before he was carried to + it. On the sixth day, being the 21st of March, he would be carried into the Church, where + he received the Eucharist, and then, in the arms of his disciples, with his eyes lifted + up to heaven, and wrapt in prayer, he gave up the ghost. Two monks saw his soul rising to + heaven, clothed in a most precious garment, and surrounded with lights, and One of a most + glorious and awful aspect standing above, Whom they heard saying: This is the way whereby + Benedict, the beloved of the Lord, goeth up to heaven. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } + + - nocturn: 3 + isGospel: false + source: "St. Peter Damian, Bishop, Sermon 9, On the Nativity of St. Benedict, Abbot (on Matt 19:27-29)" + text: + la: >- + Ecce nos relíquimus ómnia, et secúti sumus te. Solémne verbum, magna promíssio, opus + sanctum, dignum benedictióne: relínquere ómnia, et sequi Christum. Hæc sunt verba + voluntárie persuasória paupertátis, quæ monastéria genuérunt, quæ claustra mónachis, + anachorétis silvas copiósius replevérunt. Hæc enim sunt, de quibus psallit Ecclésia: + Propter verba labiórum tuórum ego custodívi vias duras; perceptúra requiem pro labóre, + pro paupertáte divítias, pro tribulatióne mercédem. Magnum revéra est relínquere ómnia, + sed majus Christum sequi, cum multos ómnia reliquísse, nec Christum secútos fuísse + legámus. Hoc opus, hic labor est, hic salútis humánæ summa consístit; nec Christum + póssumus sequi, nisi ómnia relinquámus, quia exsúltat ut gigas ad curréndam viam, et + onerátus eum sequi non potest. + + + Ecce, inquit, nos relíquimus ómnia, non solum facultátes mundi, sed et ánimi quoque + cupiditátes: neque enim relínquit ómnia, qui retínuit vel seípsum; immo vero nihil prodest, + sine seípso cétera reliquísse, quandóquidem nullum áliud onus est grávius hómini, quam + homo ipse. Quis enim tyránnus crudélior, quæ sǽvior potéstas hómini, quam hóminis ipsíus + volúntas? Séquitur: Quid ergo erit nobis? Jam ómnia relíquit Petrus, jam non solum + séquitur, sed et diu secútus est; et nunc primum intérrogat, quidnam sit acceptúrus. Quid + est, Petre? Nonne obediéntiam promisísti in auris auditióne, non in pacti conventióne? Sed + audíte jam, quid loquátur Dóminus Deus, et atténdite spem, in qua mundo fluctuánte + speráre debémus: Sedébitis, ait Dóminus, ait Véritas. Solémnis séssio, grata quies, plena + sufficiéntia. + + + Sed ne magnæ promissiónis dulcédinem longánimis expectátio contorquéret, mentis nostræ + mobilitátem sermónem témperat dulcióri. Novit enim ipse figméntum nostrum, quóniam + dilatiónis moras pusillanímitas nostra non sústinet; ideóque benignitáte sua huic quoque + obviat cogitatióni, et occúrrit étiam ex hac parte, dicens: Et omnis, qui relíquerit + domum, aut patrem, aut matrem, aut fratrum, aut uxórem, aut agros, aut fílios, propter + nomen meum, céntuplum accípiet, et vitam ætérnam possidébit. Obstrúctum est certe os + loquéntium iníqua. Jamque confundántur omnes iníqua agéntes supervácue. Habémus enim + promissiónem vitæ hujus, quæ nunc est, páriter et futúræ, manifestúmque est præséntis + témporis esse céntupli promissiónem, ex eo nimírum quod séquitur: Et vitam ætérnam + possidébit. + + + Qui ergo nondum céntuplum accepérunt, scruténtur corda sua, et univérsa mánuum suárum + stúdia diligénter exáminent; nec dúbium, quin invéniant ángulum et diversórium, quod + Salvátor non novit. Sed quid est céntuplum istud, nisi consolatiónes visitationésque et + primítiæ Spíritus, qui super mel dulcis est, nisi testimónium consciéntiæ nostræ, nisi + læta et jucundíssima justórum expectátio, nisi memória abundántiæ suavitátis Dei, et + magna vere multitúdo dulcédinis ejus, quam nec expértis necésse est dícere, nec + inexpértis illis verbis exprímere quiquam potest? Cui vero sic speciáliter totus + evangélicæ lectiónis excúrsus assignári potest, quemádmodum Patri et Magístro nostro + beáto Benedícto? Hic a puerítia mundum cum flore relíquit, et curréntem Christum cursu + rapidíssimo secútus est, nec déstitit, donec consequerétur. + en: >- + Behold, we have left all things, and have followed thee. A solemn word, a great promise, + a holy work, worthy of a blessing: to leave all things, and follow Christ. These are the + words that willingly persuade to poverty, which have brought forth monasteries, which have + filled cloisters with monks and the woods more abundantly with hermits. For these are they + of whom the Church sings: Because of the words of thy lips I have kept hard ways; about to + receive rest for labour, riches for poverty, reward for tribulation. It is indeed a great + thing to leave all things, but a greater thing to follow Christ, since we read that many + left all things, yet did not follow Christ. This is the work, this is the labour, herein + lies the sum of man's salvation; nor can we follow Christ unless we leave all things, + because He rejoiceth as a giant to run the way, and one who is burdened cannot follow Him. + + + Behold, he saith, we have left all things — not only the goods of the world, but also the + desires of the mind: for he does not leave all things who has kept even himself; indeed it + profits nothing to have left all else without leaving oneself, since no burden is heavier + upon a man than the man himself. For what tyrant is more cruel, what power more savage upon + a man, than the will of the man himself? There follows: What then shall we have? Peter has + already left all things; he not only follows now, but has long followed; and now for the + first time he asks what he is to receive. What is this, Peter? Didst thou not promise + obedience upon hearing with thine ears, not upon the striking of a bargain? But hear now + what the Lord God says, and attend to the hope in which we ought to hope while the world is + tossed about: Ye shall sit, says the Lord, says the Truth. A solemn sitting, a welcome rest, + a full sufficiency. + + + But lest a long-drawn-out waiting should twist the sweetness of the great promise, He + tempers the fickleness of our mind with a sweeter word. For He himself knows our frame, + since our faintheartedness cannot bear the delays of postponement; and so in His kindness + He meets this thought also, and comes to meet us on this side too, saying: And every one + that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, + or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life + everlasting. Surely the mouth of them that speak unjust things is stopped. Now let all be + confounded that work iniquity in vain. For we have the promise of this life, which now is, + together with that which is to come; and it is plain that the hundredfold promise belongs + to the present time, from what follows: and shall possess life everlasting. + + + Let those, then, who have not yet received the hundredfold, search their own hearts, and + diligently examine all the labours of their hands; and there is no doubt they will find a + corner and a lodging-place which the Saviour does not know. But what is this hundredfold, + but the consolations and visitations and firstfruits of the Spirit, which is sweeter than + honey; but the testimony of our own conscience; but the glad and most joyful expectation + of the just; but the memory of the abundance of God's sweetness, and the truly great + multitude of His sweetness, which it is not necessary to tell to those who have + experienced it, nor can any words express it to those who have not? But to whom can this + whole course of the Gospel reading be so specially assigned, as to our Father and Master, + blessed Benedict? He from boyhood left the world in its flower, and followed the running + Christ with the swiftest course, nor did he cease until he had overtaken Him. + status: { la: verified, en: draft } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-frances-of-rome.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-frances-of-rome.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..51f7073 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-frances-of-rome.yml @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Frances of Rome, Widow (Mar 9) — +# SanctiM/03-09.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/03-09`) with no +# Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own vita is sourced from the +# Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see memory +# vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/03-09.txt, English/Sancti/03-09.txt. +# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no genuine +# source break. No responsory given in the source. +id: st-frances-of-rome +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Francisca nobilis matrona Romana, ab ineunte ætate illustria dedit virtutum exempla: + etenim pueriles ludos et illecebras mundi respuens, solitudine et oratione magnopere + delectabatur. Undecim annos nata, virginitatem suam Deo consecrare, et monasterium + ingredi proposuit: parentum tamen voluntati humiliter obtemperans, Laurentio de + Pontianis, juveni æque diviti ac nobili nupsit. In matrimonio arctioris vitæ propositum, + quantum licuit, semper retinuit: a spectaculis, conviviis, aliisque hujusmodi + oblectamentis abhorrens, lanea ac vulgari veste utens, et quidquid a domesticis curis + supererat temporis, orationi aut proximorum utilitati tribuens: in id vero maxima + sollicitudine incumbens, ut matronas Romanas a pompis sæculi et ornatus vanitate + revocaret. Quapropter domum Oblatarum, sub regula sancti Benedicti, congregationis + Montis Oliveti, adhuc viro alligata, in Urbe instituit. Viri exsilium, bonorum + jacturam, ac universæ domus mœrorem non modo constantissime toleravit: sed gratias agens + cum beato Job, illud frequenter usurpabat: Dominus dedit, Dominus abstulit: sit nomen + Domini benedictum. + + + Viro defuncto, ad prædictam Oblatarum domum convolans, nudis pedibus, fune ad collum + alligato, humi prostrata, multis cum lacrimis earum numero adscribi suppliciter + postulavit. Voti compos facta, licet esset omnium mater, non alio tamen quam ancillæ, + vilissimæque feminæ, et immunditiæ vasculi titulo gloriabatur. Quam vilem sui + existimationem et verbo declaravit et exemplo: sæpe enim e suburbana vinea revertens, et + lignorum fascem proprio capiti impositum deferens, vel eisdem onustum agens per Urbem + asellum, pauperibus subveniebat, in quos étiam largas eleemosynas erogabat: + ægrotantesque in xenodochiis visitans, non corporali tantum cibo, sed salutaribus monitis + recreabat. Corpus suum vigiliis, jejuniis, cilicio, ferreo cingulo, crebrisque flagellis + in servitutem redigere jugiter satagebat. Cibum illi semel in die herbæ et legumina, aqua + potum præbuit. Hos tamen corporis cruciatus aliquando confessarii mandato, a cujus ore + nutuque pendebat, modice temperavit. + + + Divina mysteria, præsertim vero Christi Domini passionem, tanto mentis ardore, tantaque + lacrimarum vi contemplabatur, ut præ doloris magnitudine pene confici videretur. Sæpe + étiam cum oraret, maxime sumpto sanctissimæ Eucharistiæ sacramento, spiritu in Deum + elevata, ac cælestium contemplatione rapta, immobilis permanebat. Quapropter humani + generis hostis variis eam contumeliis ac verberibus a proposito dimovere conabatur: quem + tamen illa imperterrita semper elusit; Angeli præsertim præsidio, cujus familiari + consuetudine gloriosum de eo triumphum reportavit. Gratia curationum et prophetiæ dono + enituit, quo et futura prædixit, et cordium secreta penetravit. Denique meritis et + miraculis clara, migravit ad Dominum, anno ætatis suæ quinquagesimo sexto. Quam Paulus + quintus Pontifex Maximus in Sanctorum numerum retulit. + en: >- + The noble Roman matron Frances was a pattern of godliness from her earliest years. As a + child she shrank from games, and set no store by the amusements of the world, but + delighted to be continually alone and engaged in prayer. At the age of eleven years she + desired to consecrate her virginity to God, and to enter a convent, but humbly yielded + obedience to the wishes of her parents, and was married to Lawrence de' Pontiani, a young + man whose rank was equal to his wealth. As a wife she persevered, as far as she lawfully + could, in her determination to lead an austere life; she abstained as much as possible + from going to shows, feasts, and such like amusements, dressed plainly in woollen stuffs, + and spent in prayer or the service of her neighbour whatever time she did not occupy with + her duties as mistress of her husband's house. She strove earnestly to wean the married + women of Rome from the vanities of the world and the frivolities of dress. To this end she + founded during her husband's lifetime the Sisterhood of the Oblates, under the rule of the + Benedictine congregation called of the Mount of Olives. When it pleased God that her + husband should be banished, all her goods taken away, and her home ruined, she meekly bowed + down before His holy will, often repeating the words of the blessed Job: The Lord gave, and + the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. + + + On her husband's death she betook herself immediately to the house of the Oblates, and, + with her feet bare and a rope round her neck, threw herself down on the threshold, + entreating the sisters with tears to receive her into their number. When she obtained her + wish, although she was the mother of them all, she would be among them only as one that + served, glorying rather to be called the most degraded of women and a vessel of + uncleanness. Her lowly esteem of herself was shown both by her word and example. She passed + often through the city from a vineyard in the country carrying a bundle of sticks on her + head, or driving an ass laden with faggots; she succoured the needy, for whom she collected + large alms, and visited the sick in the hospitals, ministering to them both food for the + body and exhortations healthful for their souls. She strove continually to bring her body + into subjection by watchings, fastings, haircloth, the wearing of an iron girdle, and the + often use of a scourge. She never ate but once a day, and then only vegetables, and she + took no drink but water. These severities she however sometimes relaxed, in obedience to + her confessor, on whose word and wishes she framed her customs. + + + So great was her mental realisation of the things of God, and chiefly of the sufferings of + the Lord Christ, and so abundant her tears in contemplating them, that she seemed sometimes + about to sink under her grief. Often when she was engaged in prayer, and principally after + she had received the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist, her spirit became altogether + lifted up to God, and she remained motionless, carried away by the thought of heavenly + things. The enemy of man assailed her with diverse reproaches and buffetings to break her + off her intent, but she feared him not, and with the help of an Angel whom God gave her to + be her familiar friend, she won a noble victory over the tempter. God glorified her with + the gifts of healing and of prophecy, whereby she foretold things to come, and saw the + secrets of the hearts of men. She departed to be with the Lord, famous for good works and + miracles, in the fifty-sixth year of her age. The Supreme Pontiff Paul V. caused her to be + numbered among the saints. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-gregory-the-great.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-gregory-the-great.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b9de79b --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-gregory-the-great.yml @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Gregory the Great, Pope, Confessor, +# Doctor (Mar 12) — SanctiM/03-12.txt's own Lectio5-12 all resolve back +# to `@Sancti/03-12:LectioN` (resliced for the Monastic 12-lesson +# structure), so this saint's own vita is sourced from the Tridentine +# track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see memory +# vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/03-12.txt, English/Sancti/03-12.txt. +# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no genuine +# source break. Lectio7-9's Gospel+homily (Matt 16:13-19, St. Leo's +# sermon on Peter's confession) is generic Chair-of-Peter content +# unrelated to Gregory himself, not proper to this feast, so not +# authored here — same judgment as the same lessons appearing verbatim +# under `chair-of-st-peter-at-rome.yml`'s own sourcing. No responsory +# given for Lectio4-6. +id: st-gregory-the-great +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Gregórius Magnus, Románus, Gordiáni senatóris fílius, adoléscens philosophíæ óperam + dedit; et prætório offício functus, patre mórtuo, sex monastéria in Sicília ædificávit, + Romæ séptimum sancti Andréæ nómine in suis ǽdibus, prope basílicam sanctórum Joánnis et + Pauli ad Clivum Scauri, ubi Hilarióne ac Maximiáno magístris, monáchi vitam proféssus, + póstea abbas fuit. Mox diáconus cardinális creátus, Constantinópolim a Pelágio Pontífice + ad Tibérium Constantínum imperatórem legátus míttitur: apud quem memorábile étiam illud + effécit, quod Eutýchium patriárcham, qui scrípserat contra veram ac tractábilem córporum + resurrectiónem, ita convícit, ut ejus librum imperátor in ignem injíceret. Quare + Eutýchius paulo post cum in morbum incidísset, instánte morte, pellem manus suæ tenébat, + multis præséntibus, dicens: Confíteor quia omnes in hac carne resurgémus. + + + Romam rédiens, Pelágio pestiléntia subláto, summo ómnium consénsu Póntifex elígitur: quem + honórem ne accíperet, quámdiu pótuit, recusávit; nam aliéno vestítu in spelúnca delítuit: + ubi deprehénsus indício ígnæa colúmnæ, ad sanctum Petrum consecrátur. In pontificátu + multa successóribus doctrínæ ac sanctitátis exémpla relíquit. Peregrínos quotídie ad + mensam adhibébat: in quibus et Ángelum, et Dóminum Angelórum peregríni fácie accépit. + Páuperes et urbános et extérnos, quorum númerum descríptum habébat, benígne sustentábat. + Cathólicam fidem multis locis labefactátam restítuit. Nam Donatístas in Africa, Ariános + in Hispánia représsit: Agnoítas Alexandría ejécit. Pállium Syágrio Augustodunénsi + epíscopo dare nóluit, nisi neóphytos hæréticos expélleret ex Gállia. Gothos hǽresim + Ariánam relínquere coégit. Missis in Británniam doctis et sanctis viris Augustíno et + áliis mónachis, ínsulam ad Jesu Christi fidem convértit, vere a Beda presbýtero Angliæ + vocátus Apóstolus. Joánnis patriárchæ Constantinopolitáni audáciam fregit, qui sibi + universális Ecclésiæ epíscopi nomen arrogábat. Maurítium imperatórem, eos qui mílites + fuíssent, mónachos fíeri prohibéntem, a senténtia detérruit. + + + Ecclésiam ornávit sanctíssimis institútis et légibus. Apud sanctum Petrum coácta sýnodo, + multa constítuit: in iis, Ut in Missa Kýrie eléison nóvies repeterétur: ut extra id + tempus, quod continétur Septuagésima et Pascha, Alle­lúja dicerétur: ut adderétur in + Cánone, Diésque nostros in tua pace dispónas. Litanías, Statiónes, et ecclesiásticum + offícium auxit. Quátuor concíliis, Nicǽno, Constantinopolitáno, Ephesíno, Chalcedonénsi, + tamquam quátuor Evangéliis honórem habéri vóluit. Epíscopis Sicíliæ, qui ex antíqua + ecclesiárum consuetúdine Romam síngulis triénniis conveniébant, quinto quoque anno semel + veníre indúlsit. Multos libros confécit: quos cum dictáret, testátus est Petrus diáconus, + se Spíritum Sanctum colúmbæ spécie in ejus cápite sæpe vidísse. Admirabília sunt quæ + dixit, fecit, scripsit, decrévit, præsértim infírma semper et ægra valetúdine. Qui + dénique multis éditis miráculis, pontificátus anno décimo tértio, mense sexto, die + décimo, quarto Idus Mártii, qui dies festus a Græcis étiam propter insígnem hujus + Pontíficis sapiéntiam ac sanctitátem præcípuo honóre celebrátur, ad cæléstem + beatitúdinem evocátus est. Cujus corpus sepúltum est in basílica sancti Petri, prope + Secretárium. + en: >- + Gregory the Great was a Roman, the son of Gordian the Senator. As a young man he studied + philosophy, and afterwards discharged the office of Praetor. After his father's death he + built six monasteries in Sicily, and a seventh in honour of St. Andrew, in his own house + at Rome, hard by the Church of Saints John and Paul at the ascent of the hill Scaurus. In + this monastery of St. Andrew, he and his masters, Hilarion and Maximian, professed + themselves monks, and Gregory was afterwards Abbot. Later on, he was created a Cardinal + Deacon, and sent to Constantinople as legate from Pope Pelagius to the Emperor Tiberius + Constantine. Before the Emperor he so successfully disputed against the Patriarch + Eutychius, who had denied that our bodies shall verily and indeed rise again, that the + Prince threw the book of the said Patriarch into the fire. Eutychius himself also, soon + after fell sick, and when he felt death coming on him, he took hold of the skin of his own + hand and said in the hearing of many that stood by: I acknowledge that we shall all rise + again in this flesh. + + + Gregory returned to Rome, and, Pelagius being dead of a plague, he was unanimously chosen + Pope. This honour he refused as long as he could. He disguised himself and took refuge in + a cave, but was betrayed by a fiery pillar. Being discovered and overruled, he was + consecrated at the grave of St. Peter. He left behind him many examples of doctrine and + holiness to them that have followed him in the Papacy. Every day he brought pilgrims to + his table, and among them he entertained not an Angel only, but the very Lord of Angels in + the guise of a pilgrim. He tenderly cared for the poor, of whom he kept a list, as well + without as within the city. He restored the Catholic faith in many places where it had + been overthrown. He fought successfully against the Donatists in Africa and the Arians in + Spain. He cleansed Alexandria of the Agnoites. He refused to give the Pall to Syagrius, + Bishop of Autun, unless he would expel the Neophyte heretics from Gaul. He caused the + Goths to abandon the Arian heresy. He sent into Britain Augustine and diverse other + learned and holy monks, who brought the inhabitants of that island to believe in Jesus + Christ. Hence Gregory is justly called by Bede, the Priest of Jarrow, the Apostle of + England. He rebuked the presumption of John, Patriarch of Constantinople, who had taken + to himself the title of Bishop of the Universal Church, and he dissuaded the Emperor + Maurice from forbidding soldiers to become monks. + + + Gregory adorned the Church with holy customs and laws. He called together a Synod in the + Church of St. Peter, and therein ordained many things; among others, the ninefold + repetition of the words Kyrie eleison in the Mass, the saying of the word Alleluja in the + Church service except between Septuagesima inclusive and Easter exclusive, and the + addition to the Canon of the Mass of the words Do Thou order all our days in thy peace. + He increased the Litanies, the number of the Churches where is held the observance called + a Station, and the length of the Church Service. He would that the four Councils of Nice, + Constantinople, Ephesus, and Chalcedon should be honoured like four Gospels. He released + the Sicilian Bishops from visiting Rome every three years, willing them to come instead + once every five years. He was the author of many books, and Peter the Deacon declareth + that he often saw the Holy Ghost on his head in the form of a dove when he was dictating + them. It is a marvel how much he spoke, did, wrote, and legislated, suffering all the + while from a weak and sickly body. He worked many miracles. At last God called him away + to be blessed for ever in heaven, in the thirteenth year, sixth month, and tenth day of + his Pontificate, being the 12th day of March. This day is observed by the Greeks, as well + as by us, as a festival, on account of the eminent wisdom and holiness of this Pope. His + body was buried in the Church of St. Peter, hard by the Private Chapel. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-joseph.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-joseph.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e033eaa --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-joseph.yml @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Joseph, Spouse of the B.V.M., +# Confessor (Mar 19) — SanctiM/03-19.txt's own Lectio2-9 all resolve +# back to `@Sancti/03-19:LectioN` (resliced for the Monastic 9/12-lesson +# structure with its own added responsories), 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/03-19.txt, English/Sancti/03-19.txt. +# Lectio4-6 (St. Bernard's sermon comparing Joseph the Patriarch to +# Joseph the husband of Mary) combined into one reading, one continuous +# excerpt. Lectio7-9 reference `@Sancti/12-24:Lectio1-3` (Christmas +# Eve's own Nocturn 1 scripture reading) — not proper to Joseph, so not +# authored here. No responsory given for Lectio4-6. +id: st-joseph +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + source: "St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot, Homily 2 on Luke 1:26 (Missus est)" + text: + la: >- + Quis et qualis homo fúerit beátus Joseph, cónice ex appellatióne, qua, licet + dispensatória, méruit honorári ádeo, ut pater Dei et dictus et créditus sit; cónice et ex + próprio vocábulo, quod augméntum non dúbitas interpretári. Simul et meménto magni illíus + quondam Patriárchæ vénditi in Ægýpto; et scito ipsíus istum non solum vocábulum fuísse + sortítum, sed et castimóniam adéptum, innocéntiam assecútum et grátiam. + + + Síquidem ille Joseph, fratérna ex invídia vénditus et ductus in Ægýptum, Christi + venditiónem præfigurávit: iste Joseph, Herodiánam invídiam fúgiens, Christum in Ægýptum + portávit. Ille dómino suo fidem servans, dóminæ nóluit commiscéri: iste Dóminam suam, + Dómini sui matrem, vírginem agnóscens et ipse cóntinens, fidéliter custodívit. Illi data + est intellegéntia in mystériis somniórum: isti datum est cónscium fíeri atque partícipem + cæléstium sacramentórum. + + + Ille fruménta servávit non sibi, sed omni pópulo: iste Panem vivum e cælo servándum + accépit tam sibi quam toti mundo. Non est dúbium, quin bonus et fidélis homo fúerit iste + Joseph, cui Mater desponsáta est Salvatóris. Fidélis, inquam, servus, et prudens, quem + constítuit Dóminus suæ Matris solátium, suæ carnis nutrítium, solum dénique in terris + magni consílii coadjutórem fidelíssimum. + en: >- + What and what manner of man the blessed Joseph was, we may gather from that title + wherewith, albeit only as a deputy, God deemed him fit to be honoured; he was both called, + and supposed to be the Father of God. We may gather it from his very name, which, being + interpreted, signifieth Increase. Remember likewise that great Patriarch who was sold into + Egypt, and know that the Husband of Mary not only received his name, but inherited his + purity, and was likened to him in innocence and in grace. + + + If then, that Joseph that was sold by his brethren through envy, and was brought down to + Egypt, was a type of Christ sold by a disciple, and handed over to the Gentiles, the other + Joseph flying from the envy of Herod carried Christ into Egypt. That first Joseph kept + loyal to his master, and would not carnally know his master's wife; that second Joseph knew + that the Lady, the Mother of his Lord, was a virgin, and he himself remained faithfully + virgin toward her. To that first Joseph it was given to know dark things in interpreting of + dreams; to the second Joseph it was given in sleep to know the mysteries of the kingdom of + heaven. + + + The first Joseph laid by bread, not for himself, but for all people; the second Joseph + received into his keeping that Living Bread Which came down from heaven, not for him only, + but for the whole world. We cannot doubt but that that Joseph was good and faithful to whom + was espoused the Mother of the Saviour. Yea, I say, he was a faithful and wise servant, whom + the Lord appointed to be the comfort of His own Mother, the keeper of His own Body, and the + only and trusty helper in the Eternal Counsels. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-thomas-aquinas.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-thomas-aquinas.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..450ac10 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-thomas-aquinas.yml @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Thomas Aquinas, Confessor, Doctor +# (Mar 7) — SanctiM/03-07.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/03-07`) +# with no Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own vita is sourced +# from the Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see +# memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/03-07.txt, English/Sancti/03-07.txt — +# Lectio4/5 are themselves `@:Lectio4_`/`@:Lectio5_` self-references +# (a same-file rubric-variant indirection, not a genuine split); the +# underlying `Lectio4_`/`Lectio5_`/`Lectio6` text is combined into one +# reading, one continuous vita. No responsory given in the source. +id: st-thomas-aquinas +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Præclárum christiáni orbis decus et Ecclésiæ lumen, beatíssimus vir Thomas, Landulpho + comite Aquinate et Theodora Neapolitana, nobílibus paréntibus natus, futuræ in Deiparam + devotiónis afféctum adhuc infantulus osténdit. Nam chártulam ab eo invéntam, in qua + salutátio Angelica scripta erat, frustra adniténte nutrice, compressa manu valide + retinuit, et a matre per vim abreptam, ploratu et gestu repétiit, ac mox redditam + deglutívit. Quintum annum agens, monachis sancti Benedicti Cassinátibus custodiendus + traditur. Inde Neapolim studiórum causa missus, jam adoléscens Fratrum Prædicatórum + Ordinem suscépit. Sed matre ac frátribus id indigne feréntibus, Lutétiam Parisiórum + mittitur. Quem fratres in itinere per vim raptum, in arcem castri sancti Joánnis + perducunt: ubi varie exagitatus, ut sanctum proponsitum mutaret, mulierem etiam, quæ ad + labefactándam ejus constantiam introducta fuerat, titióne fugávit. Mox beátus juvenis, + flexis genibus ante signum crucis orans, ibique somno correptus, per quietem sentire + visus est sibi ab Angelis constringi lumbos; quo ex témpore omni póstea libidinis sensu + cáruit. Soróribus, quæ ut eum a pio consílio removerent, in castrum venerant, persuasit, + ut, contemptis curis sæcularibus, ad exercitatiónem cæléstis vitæ se conferrent. + + + Emissus e castro per fenestram, Neapolim redúcitur; unde Romam, póstea Parisium a fratre + Joánne Theutónico, ordinis Prædicatórum generali magistro, ductus, Alberto Magno + doctore, philosophíæ ac theologíæ operam dedit. Viginti quinque annos natus, magister est + appellatus, publiceque philósophos ac Theólogos summa cum laude est interpretatus. + Numquam se lectióni aut scriptióni dedit, nisi post oratiónem. In difficultátibus locórum + sacræ Scripturæ, ad oratiónem jejunium adhibebat. Quin étiam sodali suo fratri Regínaldo + dicere solebat, quidquid sciret non tam studio aut labóre suo peperisse, quam divínitus + tráditum accepisse. Neapoli cum ad imáginem Crucifixi vehementius oraret, hanc vocem + audívit: Bene scripsísti de me, Thoma; quam ergo mercedem accípies? Cui ille: Non aliam, + Dómine, nisi teípsum. + + + A summo Pontifice Urbano quarto Romam vocatus, ejus jussu ecclesiásticum lucubrávit + Offícium in Corporis Christi solemnitate celebrándum: oblatos vero honores et + Neapolitanum archiepiscopátum, étiam deferénte Cleménte quarto, recusávit. A + prædicatióne divini verbi non desistebat; quod cum fáceret per octavam Paschæ in + basilica sancti Petri, mulierem, quæ ejus fimbriam tetígerat, a fluxu sánguinis + liberávit. Missus a beato Gregório décimo ad concílium Lugdunense, in monasterio Fossæ + Novæ in morbum íncidit, ubi ægrotus Cantica canticórum explanávit. Ibidem obiit + quinquagenarius, anno salútis millesimo ducentésimo septuagesimo quarto, Nonis Martii. + en: >- + That splendid adornment of the Christian world and light of the Church, blessed Thomas of + Aquino, was the son of Landulph, Earl of Aquino, and Theodora of Naples, his wife, being + nobly descended on both sides. He even as an infant gave token of the love which he + afterwards bore to the Mother of God. He found a little bit of paper upon which was written + the Angelic Salutation, and held it firm in his hand in spite of the efforts of his + wet-nurse; his mother took it away by force, but he cried and stretched out for it, and + when she gave it back to him, he swallowed it. When he was only four years old, he was + given into the keeping of the Benedictine monks of Monte Cassino. He was thence sent to + Naples to study, and there, while very young, entered the Order of Friars Preachers. This + displeased his mother and brothers, and he left Naples for Paris. When he was on his + journey his brothers met him, and carried him off by force to the castle of Monte San + Giovanni, where they imprisoned him in the keep. Here they used every means to break him of + his intention, and at last brought a woman into his room to try to overcome his purity. The + lad drove her out with a fire-brand. When he was alone he knelt down before the figure of + the Cross, and there he fell asleep. As he slept, it seemed to him that angels came and + girded his loins, and from this time he never felt the least sexual inclination. His + sisters came to the castle to beseech him to give up his purpose of leaving the world, but + he so worked on them by his godly exhortations, that both of them ever after set no value + on earthly things, and busied themselves rather with heavenly. + + + Being let down from a window, Thomas escaped out of the castle of Monte San Giovanni, and + returned to Naples. Thence he went first to Rome, and then to Paris, in company of Brother + John the German, then Master-General of the Friars Preachers. At Paris he studied + Philosophy and Theology under Albert the Great, Doctor. At the age of twenty-five years he + took the degree of Master, and gave public disquisitions on the Philosophers and + Theologians with great distinction. He never set himself to read or write till he had first + prayed, and when he was about to take in hand a hard passage of the Holy Scriptures, he + fasted also. Hence he was wont to say to Brother Reginald his comrade, that whatever he + knew, he had learnt, not so much from his own labour and study, as from the inspiration of + God. At Naples he was once kneeling in very earnest prayer before an image of Christ + Crucified, when he heard a voice which said Thomas, thou hast written well of Me; what + reward wilt thou that I give thee? He answered: Lord, thyself. + + + The Supreme Pontiff Urban IV. sent for him to Rome, and at his command he composed the + Church Office for the feast of Corpus Christi. The Pope could not persuade him to accept + any dignity. Pope Clement IV. also offered him the Archbishopric of Naples, but he refused + it. He did not neglect the preaching of the Word of God. Once while he was giving a course + of sermons in the Basilica of St Peter, during the octave of Easter, a woman who had an + issue of blood was healed by touching the hem of his garment. He was sent by blessed + Gregory X. to the Council of Lyons, but fell sick on his way to the Abbey of Fossa Nuovo, + and there during his illness he made an exposition of the Song of Songs. There he died on + the 7th day of March, in the year of salvation 1274, aged fifty years. + status: { la: verified, en: verified }