diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/finding-of-st-stephen.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/finding-of-st-stephen.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b99958e --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/finding-of-st-stephen.yml @@ -0,0 +1,130 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 readings for the Finding of St. Stephen, Protomartyr +# (Aug 3) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/08-03*.txt at all). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-03.txt, English/Sancti/08-03.txt. +# +# Lectio1-3 (Acts 7:51-54, 55-58, 59 + 8:1-2) is one continuous +# scriptural excerpt (Stephen's own martyrdom, from Acts), no internal +# break, combined into one reading with citation. Lectio4-5 (the finding +# of the relics under Honorius) is a second continuous account, combined. +# Lectio6 (St. Augustine, City of God, Bk. 22 ch. 8) is a third, distinct +# source. Responsories are all `@Sancti/12-26` cross-references (this +# day's proper is otherwise borrowed wholesale from St. Stephen's Dec 26 +# feast) — not transcribed here since that source file's own responsory +# text wasn't independently pulled for this pass. +id: finding-of-st-stephen +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + citation: { la: "Act 7:51-54; 55-58; 59; 8:1-2", en: "Acts 7:51-54; 55-58; 59; 8:1-2" } + text: + la: >- + Dura cervice et incircumcisis córdibus et áuribus, vos semper Spiritui Sancto resístitis: + sicut patres vestri, ita et vos. Quem prophetárum non sunt persecúti patres vestri? Et + occidérunt eos, qui prænuntiábunt de adventu Justi, cujus vos nunc proditores et homicidæ + fuistis, qui accepístis legem in dispositióne Angelórum et non custodistis. Audiéntes autem + hæc, disseccabántur córdibus suis, et stridébant déntibus in eum. + + + Cum autem esset plenus Spíritu Sancto, inténdens in cælum, vidit glóriam Dei, et Jesum + stantem a dextris Dei. Et ait: Ecce video cælos apertos, et Fílium hóminis stantem a dextris + Dei. Exclamántes autem voce magna, continuérunt aures suas, et ímpetum fecérunt unanímiter in + eum. Et ejiciéntes eum extra civitátem lapidábant: et testes deposuérunt vestiménta sua secus + pedes adolescentis, qui vocabátur Saulus. Et lapidábant Stephanum, invocántem et dicéntem: + Dómine Jesu, suscipe spíritum meum. + + + Positis autem genibus, clamávit voce magna: Dómine, ne statuas illis hoc peccátum. Et cum hoc + dixísset, obdormívit in Dómino. Saulus autem erat consentiens neci ejus. Facta est autem in + illa die persecútio magna in ecclésia quæ erat Jerosolymis; et omnes dispersi sunt per + regiónes Judææ et Samaríæ, præter Apóstolos. Curavérunt autem Stephanum viri timorati, et + fecérunt planctum magnum super eum. + en: >- + You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost: as + your fathers did, so do you also. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? + And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One; of whom you have been + now the betrayers and murderers: who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and + have not kept it. Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed + with their teeth at him. + + + But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looking up steadfastly to heaven, saw the glory of + God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. And he said: Behold, I see the heavens + opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. And they crying out with a + loud voice, stopped their ears, and with one accord ran violently upon him. And casting him + forth without the city, they stoned him; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the + feet of a young man, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, invoking, and saying: + Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. + + + And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: Lord, lay not this sin to their + charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his + death. And at that time there was raised a great persecution against the church which was at + Jerusalem; and they were all dispersed through the countries of Judea, and Samaria, except + the apostles. And devout men took order for Stephen's funeral, and made great mourning over + him. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } + + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Sanctórum córpora Stephani Protomártyris, Gamaliélis, Nicodémi et Abibónis, quæ diu in + obscúro ac sórdido loco jacúerant, Honorio imperatóre, Luciáno presbytero divínitus admónito, + invénta sunt prope Jerosolymam. Cui Gamaliel cum in somnis apparuísset, gravi quadam et + præclára senis spécie, locum jacéntium córporum commonstrávit, imperans ut Joánnem + Jerosolymitanum antístitem adíret, agerétque cum eo ut honestius illa córpora sepelirentur. + + + Quibus auditis Jerosolymórum antístes, finitimárum urbium epíscopis presbyterisque + convocatis, ad locum pergit; defossos lóculos ínvenit, unde suavíssimus odor efflabátur. + Cujus rei fama commóta, magna hóminum multitúdo eo convénit, multique ex variis morbis ægroti + ac débiles sani et íntegri domum rediérunt. Sacrum autem sancti Stephani corpus, quod summa + tunc celebritate in sanctam ecclésiam Sion illátum est, sub Theodosio junióre + Constantinópolim, inde Romam, Pelagio primo summo Pontífice, translátum, in agro Verano in + sepúlcro sancti Lauréntii Mártyris collocátum est. + en: >- + In the reign of the Emperor Honorius, a Priest named Lucian received a message from God, in + consequence of which discovery was made of the bodies of the Saints Stephen the First + Martyr, Gamaliel, Nicodemus, and Abibon, which had long been lying unknown and unheeded. + Lucian was asleep when Gamaliel appeared to him in a dream as a tall comely old man of + worshipful presence, told him where the bodies were lying, and bade him go to John, Patriarch + of Jerusalem, and deal with him that they might have more honourable burial. + + + When the Patriarch of Jerusalem heard it, he called together Bishops and Priests from the + neighbouring cities, and betook himself to the place, where he found the tombs hewn in the + rock, and a right sweet savour flowing forth from them. The thing being noised abroad, a + great multitude of people came together, and many that were sick and weak of diverse + diseases returned home whole. The sacred body of holy Stephen was then carried with great + pomp to the holy Church of Zion. Under the Emperor Theodosius the Younger it was taken to + Constantinople, and during the Popedom of Pelagius I it was brought to Rome, where it has + been laid in the sepulchre of the holy Martyr Lawrence in the Veranian Field. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } + + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + source: "St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, City of God, Book 22, ch. 8" + text: + la: >- + Ad aquas Tibilitanas, episcopo afferénte Projecto relíquias Mártyris gloriosíssimi Stephani, + ad ejus memóriam veniebat magnæ multitúdinis concursus et occúrsus. Ibi cæca mulier, ut ad + episcopum portántem pígnora sacra ducerétur, orávit: flores, quos ferebat, dedit; recepit, + óculis admóvit, prótinus vidit. Stupéntibus qui áderant, præibat exsultans, viam carpens et + viæ ducem ulterius non requírens. Memoráti memóriam Mártyris, quæ pósita est in castello + Synicénsi, quod Hipponénsi coloniæ vicinum est, ejusdem loci Lucillus epíscopus, pópulo + præcedénte atque sequente, portábat; fístula, cujus molestia jamdiu laboraverat, et + familiaríssimi sui médici, qui eam secaret, opperiebátur manus, illíus piæ sarcinæ vectatióne + repénte sanáta est. + en: >- + When the Bishop Projectus brought some relics of that most glorious Martyr Stephen to + Tibilis, a great multitude came together and went out to meet the shrine. A blind woman + prayed to be led to the Bishop who was bearing the hallowed deposit. She laid on the relics + the flowers which she was carrying, took them up again, touched her eyes with them and + forthwith saw. She went forward rejoicing, at the head of the amazed procession, choosing her + own path, and needing no more that any should lead her. I remember also the shrine of this + same Martyr which hath been placed in the town of Synica, hard by this city of Hippo. + Lucillus, Bishop of that place, was carrying it, with a multitude going before and following + after when, all of a sudden, by bearing this hallowed burden, he was healed of the emerods, + from which he was even then suffering, and which were being treated by a physician, an + intimate friend of his, who was about to cut them. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-felix-and-adauctus.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-felix-and-adauctus.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b38358c --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-felix-and-adauctus.yml @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Felix and Adauctus, Martyrs (Aug 30) +# — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/08-30.txt is a different, later +# saint (St. Rose of Lima, canonized 1671) who displaced Felix and +# Adauctus on the general calendar's own Aug 30 slot; their content +# survives at the suffixed sibling file (see memory +# vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle"). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-30o.txt, English/Sancti/08-30o.txt. +# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source. +# English source has a stray-character artifact ("Him-who-was-added x +# that is") — transcribed here with the stray "x" dropped. +id: ss-felix-and-adauctus +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Felix, Diocletiano et Maximiano imperatoribus, propter susceptam Christi religionem + comprehensus, in Serapidis templum adductus est. Cui sacrificare cum juberetur, os simulacri + conspuit. Quo facto, statim serea statua corruit. Quod cum iterum ac tertio in sede Mercurii + Dianæque factum esset, impietatis et magicæ artis accusatus, equuleo torquetur. Mox ad + secundum ab Urbe lapidem via Ostiensi ducitur, ut securi feriretur. Cui inter viam oblatus + quidam Christianus, cum Felicem agnoscens ad martyrium duci videret, Ego quoque, clara voce + inquit, eadem, qua iste, lege vivo; ego eumdem Jesum Christum colo. Itaque Felicem osculatus, + cum eo securi percutitur, tertio Kalendas Septembris. Cujus nomen cum ignotum esset + Christianis, is Adaucti nomine nobilitatus est, quod sancto Martyri Felici adauctus sit ad + coronam. + en: >- + Felix was arrested in the reign of the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian, on the charge of + having embraced the Christian Faith, and was brought to the temple of Serapis. When he was + ordered to offer sacrifice, he spat in the face of the brazen idol, which thereupon fell + down. When this happened a second and third time in the temples of Mercury and Diana, he was + accused of impiety and magic, and tortured upon the rack. It was not long, however, before he + was led out to the second mile-stone upon the road to Ostia, to be smitten with the axe. As + they were on the way thither, they chanced to meet a certain Christian, who, when he knew + that Felix was going to finish his testimony, said aloud, I live by the same law as he doth; + I worship the same Christ Jesus. And therewith he kissed Felix, and they were beheaded + together, upon the 30th day of August. What the name of the second person was the Christians + never knew, and he is therefore honoured under the title of Him-who-was-added, that is, + added to the company of the Holy Martyr Felix in winning of the crown. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-donatus.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-donatus.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d11028 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-donatus.yml @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Donatus, Bishop and Martyr (Aug 7) — +# pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/08-07.txt is a different, later +# saint (St. Cajetan, canonized 1671) who displaced Donatus on the +# general calendar's own Aug 7 slot; his content survives at the +# suffixed sibling file (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical +# wrinkle"). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-07o.txt, English/Sancti/08-07o.txt. +# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source. +id: st-donatus +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Donatus, paréntibus propter Jesu Christi fidem interfectis, Arrétium in Etrúriam cum + Hilarino monacho ex fuga se cóntulit: cujus étiam urbis epíscopus creátus est. Ubi, cum a + Quadratiáno præfecto in Juliáni persecutióne uterque idola venerari juberétur, negántibus + illis se tam nefárium scelus commissuros, Hilarinus in óculis Quadratiáni tamdiu fustibus + cæsus est, dum efflaret ánimam; Donatus, veheménter et ipse cruciatus, gládio percússus est. + Quorum córpora a Christiánis prope eam urbem honorifice sepúlta sunt. + en: >- + Donatus was the child of a father and mother who had both been slain for Jesus Christ's + sake. He fled with the monk Hilarinus to Arezzo in Tuscany, of which city he afterwards + became Bishop. There the Prefect Quadratian, during the persecution under Julian, commanded + both Hilarinus and Donatus to worship idols, and when they both refused to commit such + abominable iniquity, Hilarinus was beaten with clubs before the eyes of Quadratian, until he + gave up the ghost. Donatus also was savagely tortured, and slain with the sword. The + Christians buried their bodies honourably hard by the city. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-louis.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-louis.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..54b29bc --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-louis.yml @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Louis, King of France, Confessor +# (Aug 25) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/08-25*.txt at all). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-25.txt, English/Sancti/08-25.txt. +# Lectio4-6 is this saint's own proper text, one continuous vita account, +# no internal break, combined into a single reading; Lectio7-9 are +# Common-of-a-Confessor (skipped). No responsory given. +id: st-louis +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Ludovicus nonus Galliæ rex, duodecim annos natus, patre amisso, et in Blanchæ matris + sanctissima disciplina educatus, cum jam vigesimum annum in regno ageret, in morbum incidit: + quo tempore cogitavit de recuperanda possessione Jerosolymorum. Quamobrem ubi convaluisset, + vexillum ab episcopo Parisiensi accepit: deínde mare cum ingenti exercitu trajiciens, primo + prælio Saracenos fugavit. Sed cum ex pestilentia magna militum multitudo periisset, victus + ipse captusque est. + + + Rebus postea cum Saracenis compositis, liber rex exercitusque dimittitur. Quinque annis in + Oriente commoratus, plurimos Christianos a barbarorum servitute redemit, multos étiam + infideles ad Christi fidem convertit: præterea aliquot Christianorum urbes refecit suis + sumptibus. Interim mater ejus migrat e vita: quare domum redire cogitur, ubi totum se dedit + pietatis officiis. + + + Multa ædificavit monasteria, et pauperum hospitia: beneficentia egentes sublevabat: frequens + visebat ægrotos, quibus ipse non solum suis sumptibus omnia suppeditabat, sed etiam, quæ opus + erant, manibus ministrabat. Vestitu vulgari utebatur, cilicio ac jejunio corpus assidue + affligebat. Sed cum iterum transmisisset, bellum Saracenis illaturus, jamque castra in eorum + conspectu posuisset, pestilentia decessit in illa oratione: Introibo in domum tuam; adorabo + ad templum sanctum tuum, et confitebor nomini tuo. Ejus corpus postea Lutétiam Parisiorum + translatum est, quod in celebri sancti Dionysii templo asservatur et colitur; caput vero in + sacra æde sanctæ Capellæ. Ipse clarus miraculis a Bonifacio Papa octavo in sanctorum numerum + est relatus. + en: >- + Louis IX, King of France, at the age of twelve years lost his father. He was brought up + under the godly care of his mother, Blanche of Castile. In the twentieth year of his reign + he fell grievously sick, and the thought then occurred to him of delivering Jerusalem out of + the hands of the Moslems. On his health being restored, he received a banner from the Bishop + of Paris, and crossed the sea with a very great army. In his first battle he put the + Saracens to flight, but, a great number of the soldiers perishing by disease, he was himself + conquered and taken prisoner. + + + The King afterwards entered into treaty with the Saracens, and he and his army departed in + peace. He remained five years in the East, during which he redeemed great numbers of + Christians from slavery among the unbelievers, and also brought many of the unbelievers + themselves to believe in Christ. Moreover he rebuilt several cities of the Christians at his + own cost. Meanwhile, his mother departed this life, whereby he was constrained to return + home, where he gave himself up entirely to works of godliness. + + + He built many monasteries, and charitable institutions for the poor. By his alms he relieved + the needy, and often visited the sick, for whom he not only provided at his own cost, but + waited on them with his own hands with such things as they wanted. He wore a plain dress and + constantly chastised his body with hair-cloth and fasting. He crossed the sea to make war + again upon the Saracens. His camp was pitched in sight of the enemy, but he was seized with + pestilence, and died uttering the words: I will come into thy house; I will worship toward + thy holy temple, and praise thy Name. His body was afterwards carried to Paris, and it is + kept and honoured in the famous Abbey Church of St. Denis, but his head in the oratory called + La Sainte Chapelle. He was renowned for miracles, and Pope Boniface VIII enrolled his name + among those of the Saints. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-zephyrinus.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-zephyrinus.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7b5ad30 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-zephyrinus.yml @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Zephyrinus, Pope and Martyr (Aug 26) +# — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/08-26*.txt at all). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-26.txt, English/Sancti/08-26.txt. Single +# lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source. +id: st-zephyrinus +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Zephyrinus Romanus Severo imperatore ad regendam Ecclesiam assumptus, sancivit, ut qui + ordinandi essent, opportuno tempore et multis præsentibus clericis et laicis, de more sacris + initiarentur; doctique ac spectatæ vitæ homines ad id officii munus deligerentur. Decrevit + præterea, ut rem divinam facienti episcopo sacerdotes omnes astarent. Idem instituit ut + patriarcha, primas, metropolitanus adversus episcopum non ferant sententiam, nisi apostolica + auctoritate fulti. Vixit in pontificatu annos decem et octo, dies decem et octo. Habuit + ordinationes quatuor mense Decembri, quibus creavit presbyteros tredecim, diaconos septem, + episcopos per diversa loca tredecim. Antonino imperatore martyrio coronatus est, et sepultus + via Appia prope cemeterium Callisti, septimo Kalendas Septembris. + en: >- + Pope Zephyrinus was a Roman, who was called to govern the Church during the reign of the + Emperor Severus. It was he who decreed that they who are to be ordained should be ordained + only at a fit time, and in the presence of many clerks and laymen, as was indeed already the + custom, and that none but learned men and well known and spoken of should be set apart to + that office. He decreed also that when the Bishop celebrated the Holy Liturgy, all the + Priests should be present around him. Also he decreed that no Patriarch, Primate, or + Metropolitan should pronounce sentence on a Bishop, unless they were charged with the + authority of the Apostolic See. He lived as Pope eighteen years, eighteen days. He held four + December ordinations, wherein he made thirteen Priests, seven Deacons, and thirteen Bishops + for diverse places. He received the crown of his testimony under the Emperor Antonine, and + was buried on the Appian Way, near the cemetery of Callistus, upon the 26th day of August. + status: { la: verified, en: verified }