diff --git a/src/data/hours/matins-psalmody-overrides/categories/common-of-a-confessor.yml b/src/data/hours/matins-psalmody-overrides/categories/common-of-a-confessor.yml
index 872ffc7..bb81993 100644
--- a/src/data/hours/matins-psalmody-overrides/categories/common-of-a-confessor.yml
+++ b/src/data/hours/matins-psalmody-overrides/categories/common-of-a-confessor.yml
@@ -16,7 +16,19 @@
 # redirect) because the versicles are a real, if small, difference —
 # `common-of-a-confessor-bishop.yml` is its own full file, duplicating
 # these same psalm/antiphon groups with its own versicles.
+#
+# `aliases` also registers `common-of-an-abbot` and
+# `common-of-a-confessor-not-bishop` under this same scheme (2026-08),
+# live-verified as a genuine full redirect (psalms, antiphons, AND
+# versicles all byte-identical, unlike the Bishop case above): St. Maurus
+# (2026-01-15, Duplex II. classis) and St. Gall (2026-10-16, Duplex) for
+# Abbot; St. Francis of Assisi (2026-10-04, Duplex) and St. Jerome
+# (2026-09-30, Duplex) for Confessor-non-Bishop — all four reproduce this
+# file's content exactly, confirming vu's own separately-named ids
+# collapse to one Matins scheme in the reference engine (Reference votive
+# numbers C5/C5b both point here per `horas.dialog`'s `[votives]` index).
 id: common-of-a-confessor
+aliases: [common-of-an-abbot, common-of-a-confessor-not-bishop]
 nocturn1:
   groups:
     - psalms: [1]
diff --git a/src/data/hours/matins-psalmody-overrides/categories/common-of-an-apostle.yml b/src/data/hours/matins-psalmody-overrides/categories/common-of-an-apostle.yml
index 2c99aa3..7d9e4f2 100644
--- a/src/data/hours/matins-psalmody-overrides/categories/common-of-an-apostle.yml
+++ b/src/data/hours/matins-psalmody-overrides/categories/common-of-an-apostle.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,15 @@
 # pattern already established for Common-of-a-Martyr (see that category
 # file's own doc comment).
 #
+# `aliases` also registers `common-of-apostles` (plural, vu's separate id
+# for feasts of two-or-more Apostles together) under this same scheme
+# (2026-08) — live-verified against the Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul
+# (2026-07-06, Duplex): psalms, antiphons, and versicles all
+# byte-identical to this file, a genuine full redirect (reference votive
+# number C1 covers both per `horas.dialog`'s `[votives]` index, which
+# doesn't distinguish singular from plural Apostle commons).
 id: common-of-an-apostle
+aliases: [common-of-apostles]
 nocturn1:
   groups:
     - psalms: [18]
diff --git a/tests/hours/matins.test.ts b/tests/hours/matins.test.ts
index 1352fb5..a69e458 100644
--- a/tests/hours/matins.test.ts
+++ b/tests/hours/matins.test.ts
@@ -330,16 +330,19 @@ describe('resolveOrdo("matins", ...) Duplex+ weekday-feast (3-nocturn, non-Sunda
   });
 
   it('falls all the way back to the plain ferial weekday table, redistributed into 3 nocturns, when neither a proper nor a Common entry is authored', () => {
-    // St. Anthony, Abbot (Duplex, Common of an Abbot -- no
-    // matins-psalmody-overrides category authored yet for either tier)
-    // -- 2029-01-17, a Wednesday, confirmed clean (no Sunday collision).
-    const fallback = resolveOrdo('matins', '2029-01-17');
+    // St. Monica, Widow (Duplex, Common of a Widow -- no
+    // matins-psalmody-overrides category authored yet for either tier;
+    // Common-of-an-Abbot no longer qualifies for this proof as of
+    // 2026-08-27, now aliased to Common-of-a-Confessor) -- 2029-05-04, a
+    // Friday, confirmed clean (no Sunday collision, per her own
+    // saint-file comment).
+    const fallback = resolveOrdo('matins', '2029-05-04');
     const psalms = fallback.parts.filter((p) => p.kind === 'psalm').map((p) => (p as { psalmNumber: number }).psalmNumber);
-    // Ps 3 + 94, then Wednesday's own 9-psalm ferial table
-    // (psalter-distribution.yml), not any Common-of-an-Abbot scheme.
+    // Ps 3 + 94, then Friday's own 9-psalm ferial table
+    // (psalter-distribution.yml), not any Common-of-a-Widow scheme.
     expect(psalms[0]).toBe(3);
     expect(psalms[1]).toBe(94);
-    expect(psalms.slice(2)).toEqual(getPsalmsFor('matins', 'wednesday').map((r) => r.number));
+    expect(psalms.slice(2)).toEqual(getPsalmsFor('matins', 'friday').map((r) => r.number));
     expect(fallback.parts.some((p) => p.kind === 'te-deum')).toBe(true);
     expect(fallback.parts.some((p) => p.kind === 'canticle')).toBe(false);
   });