diff --git a/src/hours/lauds.ts b/src/hours/lauds.ts
index 1bfd301..5297c02 100644
--- a/src/hours/lauds.ts
+++ b/src/hours/lauds.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import {
   isFerialOrVigil,
   getOfficeOverrideId,
   resolveResponsory,
+  resolveOfficeBundle,
 } from './resolve-common';
 import laudsDefinitionData from '../data/hours/lauds.yml';
 import laudsAntiphonsData from '../data/hours/lauds-antiphons.yml';
@@ -178,29 +179,26 @@ function resolvePsalmody(day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
   return parts;
 }
 
-/** A duplex-majus+/Marian-Saturday override's own capitulum/responsory/
- * hymn/versicle (data/propers/common/lauds-{part}-${id}.yml), when
- * authored — most overrides only bother with the psalmody (see
- * getPsalmodyOverrideFor) and leave this bundle at its plain weekday
- * default, which is exactly what falls back here when the id-keyed
- * capitulum doesn't exist (same dual-missing-status "not authored"
- * signal used throughout this codebase, not a special case). Falls to a
- * *seasonal* default next (Advent/Lent/Passiontide/Paschaltide — see
- * resolve-common.ts's seasonalOfficeSuffix), and only then the plain
- * weekday default — a feast's own override always wins over the season
- * it happens to fall in, same as everywhere else in this codebase. */
+/** Any sanctoral winner's (or named-temporal feast's) own capitulum/
+ * responsory/hymn/versicle (data/propers/common/lauds-{part}-${id}.yml),
+ * else their Common's (`${part}-${common}`), when authored — see
+ * resolve-common.ts's resolveOfficeBundle for the eligibility/fallback
+ * rule (deliberately rank-agnostic as of 2026-08-25: a simplex feast's
+ * Common chapter/hymn is real content, not gated behind duplex-majus+
+ * like the psalmody override above is). Falls to a *seasonal* default
+ * next (Advent/Lent/Passiontide/Paschaltide — see resolve-common.ts's
+ * seasonalOfficeSuffix), and only then the plain weekday default — a
+ * feast's own override always wins over the season it happens to fall
+ * in, same as everywhere else in this codebase. */
 function resolveOffice(day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
-  const overrideId = getPsalmodyOverrideFor(day)?.id;
-  if (overrideId) {
-    const chapter = resolveCommon(`lauds-capitulum-${overrideId}`);
-    if (chapter.status.la !== 'missing' || chapter.status.en !== 'missing') {
-      return [
-        { kind: 'chapter', text: chapter },
-        { kind: 'responsory', text: resolveResponsory(resolveCommon(`lauds-responsory-${overrideId}`), day) },
-        { kind: 'hymn', text: resolveCommon(`lauds-hymn-${overrideId}`) },
-        { kind: 'versicle', text: resolveCommon(`lauds-versicle-${overrideId}`) },
-      ];
-    }
+  const bundle = resolveOfficeBundle('lauds', day);
+  if (bundle) {
+    return [
+      { kind: 'chapter', text: bundle.chapter },
+      { kind: 'responsory', text: bundle.responsory },
+      { kind: 'hymn', text: bundle.hymn },
+      { kind: 'versicle', text: bundle.versicle },
+    ];
   }
   const seasonSuffix = seasonalOfficeSuffix(day.season);
   const key = seasonSuffix ?? day.weekday;
diff --git a/src/hours/resolve-common.ts b/src/hours/resolve-common.ts
index 89541b3..6e84cc3 100644
--- a/src/hours/resolve-common.ts
+++ b/src/hours/resolve-common.ts
@@ -401,6 +401,66 @@ export function resolveMinorHourChapter(hourId: string, day: LiturgicalDay, fall
   return resolveCommon(fallbackId);
 }
 
+export interface OfficeBundle {
+  chapter: ResolvedText;
+  responsory: ResolvedText;
+  hymn: ResolvedText;
+  versicle: ResolvedText;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The chapter/responsory/hymn/versicle bundle following Lauds'/Vespers'
+ * psalmody (hours/lauds.ts's and hours/vespers.ts's own resolveOffice) —
+ * a saint's own proper bundle (`${hourId}-{part}-${id}`) when authored,
+ * else that saint's Common bundle (`${hourId}-{part}-${commonId}`,
+ * SaintRecord's main `common` field, not `minorHoursCommon` — this is the
+ * saint's overall classification, the same one driving their day collect).
+ * Eligibility is deliberately rank-agnostic, `getMinorHourOverrideId`'s
+ * test (any sanctoral winner, or a named ALWAYS_OVERRIDE_TEMPORAL_IDS
+ * feast) rather than resolveOffice's old duplex-majus+-only gate: a
+ * simplex feast's own or Common's chapter/hymn is real, distinct
+ * liturgical content, not something only strong feasts are entitled to —
+ * confirmed 2026-08-25 (St. Louis, King of France, simplex, was silently
+ * falling all the way to the plain ferial default instead of his Common
+ * of a Confessor Not Bishop). Same honest "eligible, not gated on whether
+ * content exists" convention as everywhere else: returns `undefined` when
+ * neither the proper nor the Common has this bundle authored yet, so the
+ * caller falls through to its own seasonal/weekday default.
+ *
+ * `resolveChapterFor` lets Vespers reuse its own chapter lookup (which
+ * itself falls back to the byte-identical Lauds capitulum file when no
+ * `vespers-capitulum-<id>.yml` exists — see vespersCapitulumForOverride)
+ * instead of the plain `${hourId}-capitulum-${id}` default used here.
+ */
+export function resolveOfficeBundle(
+  hourId: string,
+  day: LiturgicalDay,
+  resolveChapterFor: (id: string) => ResolvedText = (id) => resolveCommon(`${hourId}-capitulum-${id}`),
+): OfficeBundle | undefined {
+  const overrideId = getMinorHourOverrideId(day);
+  if (!overrideId) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+  const tryId = (id: string): OfficeBundle | undefined => {
+    const chapter = resolveChapterFor(id);
+    if (chapter.status.la === 'missing' && chapter.status.en === 'missing') {
+      return undefined;
+    }
+    return {
+      chapter,
+      responsory: resolveResponsory(resolveCommon(`${hourId}-responsory-${id}`), day),
+      hymn: resolveCommon(`${hourId}-hymn-${id}`),
+      versicle: resolveCommon(`${hourId}-versicle-${id}`),
+    };
+  };
+  const proper = tryId(overrideId);
+  if (proper) {
+    return proper;
+  }
+  const commonId = getSaintRecord(overrideId)?.common;
+  return commonId ? tryId(commonId) : undefined;
+}
+
 /** Fills a Common collect template's literal `{N}` placeholders with a
  * saint's own name(s) per language (SaintRecord.collectName) — the same
  * substitution the reference source's own Commune files perform
diff --git a/src/hours/vespers.ts b/src/hours/vespers.ts
index f07c926..cee9a22 100644
--- a/src/hours/vespers.ts
+++ b/src/hours/vespers.ts
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ import {
   verifiedText,
   seasonalOfficeSuffix,
   isFerialOrVigil,
-  getOfficeOverrideId,
   resolveResponsory,
+  resolveOfficeBundle,
 } from './resolve-common';
 import vespersDefinitionData from '../data/hours/vespers.yml';
 import vespersAntiphonsData from '../data/hours/vespers-antiphons.yml';
@@ -109,31 +109,30 @@ function vespersCapitulumForOverride(id: string): ResolvedText {
 }
 
 /** The chapter/responsory/hymn/versicle bundle following the psalmody —
- * see hours/types.ts's 'vespers-office' doc comment. A duplex-majus+
- * saint's own proper bundle (chapter via vespersCapitulumForOverride
- * above, responsory/hymn/versicle via `vespers-{part}-${id}`), or one of
- * the named temporal feasts eligible via resolve-common.ts's
- * getOfficeOverrideId, wins first when authored — same eligible-but-not-
- * gated-on-content pattern as Lauds' resolveOffice, just without a
- * psalmody-override table of its own to piggyback eligibility on
- * (Vespers has no per-feast psalmody override mechanism — see TODO.md).
- * Falls to a *seasonal* default next (Advent/Lent/Passiontide/
- * Paschaltide — see resolve-common.ts's seasonalOfficeSuffix), and only
- * then the plain weekday default — a feast's own override always wins
- * over the season it happens to fall in, same as everywhere else in this
- * codebase. */
+ * see hours/types.ts's 'vespers-office' doc comment. Any sanctoral
+ * winner's (or named-temporal feast's) own proper bundle (chapter via
+ * vespersCapitulumForOverride above, responsory/hymn/versicle via
+ * `vespers-{part}-${id}`), else their Common's bundle, wins first when
+ * authored — resolve-common.ts's resolveOfficeBundle, deliberately
+ * rank-agnostic (2026-08-25: matches Lauds' identical change, ditto for
+ * the same reason — a simplex feast's Common office is real content),
+ * not gated at duplex-majus+ the way this hour's lack of its own
+ * psalmody-override table might otherwise suggest (Vespers has no
+ * per-feast psalmody override mechanism — see TODO.md; that's unrelated
+ * to this bundle's own eligibility). Falls to a *seasonal* default next
+ * (Advent/Lent/Passiontide/Paschaltide — see resolve-common.ts's
+ * seasonalOfficeSuffix), and only then the plain weekday default — a
+ * feast's own override always wins over the season it happens to fall
+ * in, same as everywhere else in this codebase. */
 function resolveOffice(day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
-  const overrideId = getOfficeOverrideId(day);
-  if (overrideId) {
-    const chapter = vespersCapitulumForOverride(overrideId);
-    if (chapter.status.la !== 'missing' || chapter.status.en !== 'missing') {
-      return [
-        { kind: 'chapter', text: chapter },
-        { kind: 'responsory', text: resolveResponsory(resolveCommon(`vespers-responsory-${overrideId}`), day) },
-        { kind: 'hymn', text: resolveCommon(`vespers-hymn-${overrideId}`) },
-        { kind: 'versicle', text: resolveCommon(`vespers-versicle-${overrideId}`) },
-      ];
-    }
+  const bundle = resolveOfficeBundle('vespers', day, vespersCapitulumForOverride);
+  if (bundle) {
+    return [
+      { kind: 'chapter', text: bundle.chapter },
+      { kind: 'responsory', text: bundle.responsory },
+      { kind: 'hymn', text: bundle.hymn },
+      { kind: 'versicle', text: bundle.versicle },
+    ];
   }
   const seasonSuffix = seasonalOfficeSuffix(day.season);
   const key = seasonSuffix ?? day.weekday;