diff --git a/src/data/propers/common/benedictus-antiphon-common-of-a-confessor.yml b/src/data/propers/common/benedictus-antiphon-common-of-a-confessor.yml
index e727f06..c68d2de 100644
--- a/src/data/propers/common/benedictus-antiphon-common-of-a-confessor.yml
+++ b/src/data/propers/common/benedictus-antiphon-common-of-a-confessor.yml
@@ -1,15 +1,18 @@
-# Read directly from the reference engine's own source data files:
-# web/www/horas/Latin/Commune/C5.txt ("Commune Confessoris non
-# pontificis") and its English counterpart — matches this project's own
-# `common-of-a-confessor` category label (see collect-c5.yml's own
-# header). First saint to need this Common's own Benedictus antiphon
-# (st-alexius.yml, the only prior `common-of-a-confessor` saint, used a
-# Cistercian-specific alternate for his minor hours instead and had no
-# Benedictus antiphon recorded at all).
+# Corrected 2026-08-31: originally read from C5.txt's [Ant 1] ("Similabo
+# eum"), but that's this Common's *First Vespers* antiphon, not the Lauds
+# Benedictus one -- discovered while sourcing
+# magnificat-antiphon-common-of-a-confessor.yml, whose own Second-Vespers
+# text made it obvious this file's C5.txt layout is Vespers1(Ant1) ->
+# Matins -> Lauds(Ant2) -> minor hours -> Vespers2(Ant3), not a flat
+# "[Ant 1] = Benedictus" read. Live-verified directly: St. Alexius's own
+# Lauds (07-17-2026) renders "Euge, serve bone" (C5's own [Ant 2]), not
+# "Similabo eum" -- matches the already-correct
+# benedictus-antiphon-common-of-an-abbot.yml exactly, which resolves to
+# this same C5 file via its own C5-1/C5b sub-variants (no Ant override).
 id: benedictus-antiphon-common-of-a-confessor
 text:
-  la: "Similábo eum * viro sapiénti, qui ædificávit domum suam supra petram."
-  en: "I will liken him unto a wise man, * which built his house upon a rock."
+  la: "Euge, serve bone * et fidélis, quia in pauca fuísti fidélis, supra multa te constítuam, intra in gáudium Dómini tui."
+  en: "Well done, thou good and faithful servant; * thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."
 status:
   la: verified
   en: verified
diff --git a/src/data/propers/common/benedictus-antiphon-common-of-the-bvm.yml b/src/data/propers/common/benedictus-antiphon-common-of-the-bvm.yml
index c3cb155..035be80 100644
--- a/src/data/propers/common/benedictus-antiphon-common-of-the-bvm.yml
+++ b/src/data/propers/common/benedictus-antiphon-common-of-the-bvm.yml
@@ -1,13 +1,19 @@
-# Verified against the reference engine's own source data files:
-# web/www/horas/Latin/Commune/C11.txt's own [Ant 1] ("In Festis Beatae
-# Mariae Virginis" -- Common of Feasts of the BVM) and its English
-# counterpart. Reusable by any BVM feast keyed to `common: common-of-
-# the-bvm` (SaintRecord.benedictusCommon) that has no proper Benedictus
-# antiphon of its own -- e.g. our-lady-of-the-snows.yml.
+# Corrected 2026-08-31: originally read from C11.txt's [Ant 1] ("Sancta
+# Maria succurre miseris"), but that's this Common's *First Vespers*
+# antiphon, not the Lauds Benedictus one -- discovered while sourcing
+# magnificat-antiphon-common-of-the-bvm.yml, which made clear this file's
+# layout is Vespers1(Ant1) -> Matins -> Lauds(Ant2) -> minor hours ->
+# Vespers2(Ant3), the same pattern confirmed live for several sibling
+# Commons (see e.g. magnificat-antiphon-common-of-several-martyrs.yml's
+# own header). The real Lauds text is C11's own [Ant 2]. Not
+# independently live-queried for this specific Common. Reusable by any
+# BVM feast keyed to `common: common-of-the-bvm`
+# (SaintRecord.benedictusCommon) that has no proper Benedictus antiphon
+# of its own -- e.g. our-lady-of-the-snows.yml.
 id: benedictus-antiphon-common-of-the-bvm
 text:
-  la: "Sancta María, * succúrre míseris, juva pusillánimes, réfove flébiles, ora pro pópulo, intérveni pro clero, intercéde pro devóto femíneo sexu: séntiant omnes tuum juvámen, quicúmque célebrant tuam sanctam festivitátem."
-  en: "O Holy Mary, * be thou an help to the helpless, a strength to the fearful, a comfort to the sorrowful; pray for the people, plead for the clergy, make intercession for all women vowed to God: may all that are keeping this thine holy Feast-day feel the might of thine assistance."
+  la: "Beáta es, * María, quæ credidísti: perficiéntur in te, quæ dicta sunt tibi a Dómino, allelúja."
+  en: "O Mary * blessed art thou that didst believe! for there shall be a performance of those things which were told thee from the Lord. Alleluia."
 status:
   la: verified
   en: verified