Author Matins Common-of-a-Widow psalmody (secular-sourced), alias Several-Women-Martyrs

Closes the last 2 of 20 Matins psalmody-override Common categories. The
Monastic-1617 track alone was a genuine dead end here -- no real saint
in the Monastic corpus ever invokes this Common, so there was no live
Monastic rendering to verify a hand-resolution against. Resolved per
explicit user authorization to source secular-track content directly,
consistent with this project's existing blended-source design: combined
a direct read of CommuneM/C7.txt's own psalm-substitution rule with one
live secular query (version=Tridentine - 1906) against St. Bridget of
Sweden to supply the actual antiphon text.

Nocturn 1/2 end up near-identical to common-of-a-virgin-martyr.yml (one
antiphon substituted, since Virgin-Martyr's own text literally calls her
a Virgin) -- too close to alias, not close enough to merge, same
reasoning as common-of-a-confessor vs. common-of-a-confessor-bishop.
Nocturn 3 is genuinely Widow-specific (Parable of the Pearl of Great
Price); its English has no source counterpart and is self-translated,
marked draft-quality.

common-of-several-women-martyrs aliased here: its own Monastic template
whole-file-inherits the same base with no genuine Matins-nocturn
override anywhere in the traced redirect chain.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PhysogLP9eCeKS7JEwRi6y
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# Generic Common-of-a-Widow (`C7a`, "Commune non Virginum non Martyrum")
# Matins psalmody. Genuinely sourced from the SECULAR track, by explicit
# user authorization (2026-08-28): "there is nothing at all wrong with
# using text from secular sources" -- this project already blends
# Monastic 1617 structure with secular/Tridentine 1906 and Divino Afflatu
# content elsewhere by design (see this repo's own CLAUDE.md, "Not a
# reconstruction"). Two prior passes found this Common genuinely blocked
# in the Monastic-1617 track alone: `CommuneM/C7a.txt` redirects Matins
# content to `@CommuneM/C7` ("Commune Unius non Virginis Martyris"), a
# 12-lesson structure stitched from secular fragments with psalm-number
# substitutions, and no real saint anywhere in the Monastic (`SanctiM/`)
# corpus ever invokes it -- so there was no live Monastic rendering to
# check a hand-resolution against.
#
# Resolved this pass by combining a direct source-read of the Monastic
# substitution rule with a live SECULAR query to fill in the actual text:
#
# 1. `CommuneM/C7.txt`'s own `[Ant Matutinum]` directive is
# `@Commune/C7:: s/95/84/ s/96/86/ s/97/95/` followed by
# `@CommuneM/C6:AntMatutinumM:1-3` -- i.e. take secular `Commune/C7`'s
# own 9-antiphon Matins list, renumber its LAST THREE psalms
# (95->84, 96->86, 97->95), then append the first 3 of
# `common-of-a-virgin-martyr.yml`'s own `AntMatutinumM` source block.
# This is the *exact same construction rule* already used (and
# already verified correct) to build `common-of-a-virgin-martyr.yml`
# itself from `CommuneM/C6.txt`'s own directive of the same shape --
# confirmed by cross-checking that this rule's own predicted tail
# (psalms 96/97/98, "Unguéntum effúsum.../Pulchra es et decóra.../
# Accínxit fortitúdine lumbos suos...") is BYTE-IDENTICAL to that
# already-authored file's own Nocturn 2 tail -- not a coincidence,
# both Commons literally append the same 3-entry block.
# 2. Secular `Commune/C7`'s own 9-antiphon base was live-verified
# end-to-end against St. Bridget of Sweden (`command=prayMatutinum`,
# `version=Tridentine - 1906`, 2026-10-08, a real Duplex day, clean/
# un-outranked -- her own `Sancti/10-08.txt` reads plain "vide C7a").
# Her rendered page confirms 9 psalms (8,18,23,44,45,47,95,96,97) with
# real La/En antiphon text for each -- applying rule 1's substitution
# (95->84,96->86,97->95) to her own last 3 gives the psalm numbers
# below.
#
# Net result: Nocturn 1 and the Nocturn 1/2-closing versicles are
# BYTE-IDENTICAL to `common-of-a-virgin-martyr.yml` except ONE antiphon
# (Psalm 18) -- Virgin-Martyr's own "Ante torum * hujus Vírginis..."
# literally names her a Virgin, inappropriate for a Widow, so this
# Common substitutes a different (still Song-of-Songs-sourced) text for
# that one slot, live-confirmed. Nocturn 2 is fully byte-identical to
# Virgin-Martyr's own (same construction tail, rule 1 above). NOT
# aliased to `common-of-a-virgin-martyr.yml` despite the near-total
# overlap, because that one antiphon is a real, live-verified difference
# -- same "too close to alias, not close enough to merge" situation as
# `common-of-a-confessor` vs. `common-of-a-confessor-bishop`.
#
# Nocturn 3 antiphon is genuinely Widow-specific and NOT part of the
# Nocturn-1/2 substitution above: `CommuneM/C7.txt`'s own
# `[Ant Matutinum 3N]` tag gives "Invénta bona margaríta * dedit ómnia
# sua, et comparávit eam." directly (read from source, not queried) --
# the Parable of the Pearl of Great Price (Matt 13:45-46), distinct from
# Virgin-Martyr's own Nocturn 3 antiphon (the Parable of the Ten
# Virgins, Matt 25). No English translation exists anywhere in the
# reference engine's own English `CommuneM/C7.txt` for this antiphon
# (the file skips straight to Responsory12) -- translated here directly
# from the Vulgate/Douay-Rheims wording of the parable it quotes, marked
# as this file's own draft-quality English per this project's "prefer
# text over missing" convention. The Nocturn 3 versicle IS
# byte-identical to Virgin-Martyr's own (`Elégit eam Deus...`),
# live-confirmed via St. Bridget's own page.
#
# Nocturn 3 canticle: the real Lectio10-12 content behind this Common
# (`CommuneM/C7.txt`'s own directives, ultimately secular `Commune/C7`'s
# Lectio8/9) is St. Gregory the Great's homiletic commentary on the same
# parable (Homilia 11 in Evangelia), not a distinct OT/Apocryphal
# canticle triplet the way Virgin-Martyr's own Sirach/Isaiah set is --
# genuinely a different kind of content than this schema's `canticles`
# field is shaped for. Cited here as the Gospel pericope itself
# (Matt 13:44-46, the Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl),
# which is what `Commune/C7.txt`'s own `[Lectio7]` reads before Gregory's
# homily begins, and what the Nocturn 3 antiphon itself directly quotes
# -- the closest honest citation available, flagged here as a
# best-effort mapping rather than a literal canticle-triplet match.
#
# `aliases` also registers `common-of-several-women-martyrs` (`C7b`)
# here: `CommuneM/C7b.txt` whole-file inherits `@CommuneM/C7` too (this
# file's own Monastic base), and its own overrides
# (`[Versum 1]`/`[Ant 1]`/etc., from secular `Commune/C7b.txt`) are
# either Lauds-only (the "[Ant 1]" tag, same bare-naming disambiguation
# already established for `common-of-a-confessor-doctor.yml`'s own `C4a`
# case) or an explicit `[Nocturn 1 Versum]` override that redirects to
# `Commune/C6:Versum 1` -- read directly, that resolves to "Spécie tua et
# pulchritúdine tua. / Inténde, próspere procéde, et regna.", the exact
# same Nocturn 1 versicle already in this file, so the override changes
# nothing. No genuine Matins-nocturn-antiphon override exists anywhere in
# `C7b.txt`. Not live-verifiable against a real Monastic-calendar saint
# (same reasoning as the Widow case above), but the redirect chain is
# unambiguous and directly traceable, same confidence level already used
# to alias `common-of-a-confessor-pope` in the prior pass.
id: common-of-a-widow
aliases: [common-of-several-women-martyrs]
nocturn1:
groups:
- psalms: [8]
antiphon:
la: "O quam pulchra * est casta generátio cum claritáte!"
en: "O how lovely and glorious * is the generation of the chaste."
- psalms: [18]
antiphon:
la: "Læva ejus * sub cápite meo, et déxtera illíus amplexábitur me."
en: "His left hand is under my head, * and his right hand doth embrace me."
- psalms: [23]
antiphon:
la: "Revértere, * revértere, Sunamítis; revértere, ut intueámur te."
en: "Return, return, O Shulammith * Return, return, that we may look upon thee."
- psalms: [44]
antiphon:
la: "Spécie tua * et pulchritúdine tua inténde, próspere procéde, et regna."
en: "In thy comeliness and thy beauty, * go forward, fare prosperously, and reign."
- psalms: [45]
antiphon:
la: "Adjuvábit eam * Deus vultu suo: Deus in médio ejus, non commovébitur."
en: "God shall help * her with His countenance: God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved."
- psalms: [47]
antiphon:
la: "Aquæ multæ * non potuérunt exstínguere caritátem."
en: "Many waters cannot * quench love."
versicle:
v:
la: "Spécie tua et pulchritúdine tua."
en: "In thy comeliness and thy beauty."
r:
la: "Inténde, próspere procéde, et regna."
en: "Go forward, fare prosperously, and reign."
nocturn2:
groups:
- psalms: [84]
antiphon:
la: "Nigra sum, * sed formósa, fíliæ Jerúsalem; ídeo diléxit me Rex, et introdúxit me in cubículum suum."
en: "I am black but comely, * O ye daughters of Jerusalem; therefore hath the King loved me, and brought me into his chamber."
- psalms: [86]
antiphon:
la: "Trahe me post te, * in odórem currémus unguentórum tuórum: óleum effúsum nomen tuum."
en: "Draw me after thee * we will run after the savour of thy good ointments; thy name is as oil poured forth."
- psalms: [95]
antiphon:
la: "Veni, Sponsa Christi, * áccipe corónam, quam tibi Dóminus præparávit in ætérnum."
en: "Come, Bride of Christ, * and take the everlasting crown which the Lord hath prepared for thee."
- psalms: [96]
antiphon:
la: "Unguéntum effúsum * nomen tuum; ideo adolescéntulæ dilexérunt te nimis."
en: "Thy name is as oil poured out: * therefore young maidens have loved thee."
- psalms: [97]
antiphon:
la: "Pulchra es * et decóra fília Jerúsalem, terríbilis ut castrórum ácies ordináta."
en: "O my love, * sweet and comely as Jerusalem: terrible as an army set in array."
- psalms: [98]
antiphon:
la: "Accínxit * fortitúdine lumbos suos, et roborávit bráchium suum; ideóque lucérna ejus non exstinguétur in sempitérnum."
en: "She hath girded * her loins with strength, and hath strengthened her arm."
versicle:
v:
la: "Adjuvábit eam Deus vultu suo."
en: "God shall help her with His countenance."
r:
la: "Deus in médio ejus, non commovébitur."
en: "God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved."
nocturn3:
antiphon:
la: "Invénta bona margaríta * dedit ómnia sua, et comparávit eam."
en: "Having found a good pearl, * she gave all that she had, and bought it."
canticles:
- refs:
- { book: matt, chapter: 13, verses: "44-46" }
versicle:
v:
la: "Elégit eam Deus, et præelégit eam."
en: "God hath chosen her, and fore-chosen her."
r:
la: "In tabernáculo suo habitáre facit eam."
en: "He hath made her to dwell in His tabernacle."