Add August Matins readings for pre-1955 sanctoral saints

The Finding of St. Stephen, St. Donatus, St. Louis, St. Zephyrinus, and Ss. Felix and Adauctus. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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+# 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 }