Add August Matins readings for SanctiM-track saints
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13 of August's 16 SanctiM-track saints authored, including the Duplex
I class feasts of St. Lawrence and the Assumption of the B.V.M. The
Assumption's presence confirms this app's calendar already maps fixed
BVM feasts, despite an older note in the parent workspace CLAUDE.md
suggesting otherwise -- flagged in memory as stale documentation to
verify against, not trust blindly. 3 saints left unsourced (Common-only
or Nocturn-1-only vigil content).
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Clare, Virgin (Aug 12). No genuine
# SanctiM match: the only SanctiM file for this date,
# `SanctiM/08-12oct.txt`, bases `@Sancti/08-12oct` — an octave-day
# entry, not Clare's own file — a missed pre-1955-pool candidate
# rather than a genuine SanctiM case (see memory
# vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-12.txt, English/Sancti/08-12.txt.
# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no genuine
# source break. No responsory given in the source.
id: st-clare
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Clara nóbilis virgo, Assísii nata in Umbria, sanctum Francíscum concívem suum imitáta,
cuncta sua bona in eleemósynas et páuperum subsídia distríbuit et convértit. De sǽculi
strépitu fúgiens, in campéstrem declinávit ecclésiam, ibíque ab eódem beáto Francísco
recépta tonsúra, consanguíneis ipsam redúcere conántibus fórtiter réstitit. Et
dénique ad ecclésiam sancti Damiáni fuit per eúmdem addúcta, ubi ei Dóminus plures
sócias aggregávit; et sic ipsa sacrárum sorórum collégium instítuit, quarum régimen,
nímia sancti Francísci devícta importunitáte, recépit. Suum monastérium sollícite ac
prudénter, in timóre Dómini ac plena órdinis observántia, annis quadragínta duóbus
mirabíliter gubernávit; ejus enim vita erat áliis erudítio et doctrína, unde céteræ
vivéndi régulam didicérunt.
Ut, carne depréssa, spíritu convalésceret, nudam humum et intérdum sarménta pro lecto
habébat, et pro pulvinári sub cápite durum lignum. Una túnica cum mantéllo de vili et
híspido panno utebátur, áspero cilício nonnúmquam adhíbito juxta carnem. Tanta se
frenábat abstinéntia, ut longo témpore tribus in hebdómada diébus nihil pénitus pro
sui córporis aliménto gustáverit; réliquis autem diébus tali se cibórum parvitáte
restríngens, ut áliæ, quómodo subsístere póterat, miraréntur. Binas quotánnis
(ántequam ægrotáret) quadragésimas, solo pane et aqua refécta, jejunábat. Vigíliis
ínsuper et oratiónibus assídue dédita, in his præcípue dies noctésque expendébat.
Diútinus perpléxa languóribus, cum ad exercítium corporále non posset súrgere per se
ipsam, sorórum suffrágio levabátur; et, fulciméntis ad tergum appósitis, laborábat
própriis mánibus, ne in suis étiam esset infirmitátibus otiósa. Amátrix præcípua
paupertátis, ab ea pro nulla umquam necessitáte discéssit; et possessiónes pro
sorórum sustentatióne a Gregório nono oblátas constantíssime recusávit.
Multis et váriis miráculis virtus suæ sanctitátis effúlsit. Cuídam de soróribus sui
monastérii loquélam restítuit expedítam; álteri aurem surdam apéruit; laborántem
febre, tuméntem hydrópisi, plagátam fístula, aliásque áliis oppréssas languóribus
liberávit. Fratrem de órdine Minórum ab insániæ passióne sanávit. Cum óleum in
monastério totáliter defecísset, Clara accépit úrceum atque lavit, et invéntus est
óleo, benefício divínæ largitátis, implétus. Uníus panis medietátem ádeo multiplicávit,
ut soróribus quinquagínta suffécerit. Saracénis Assísium obsidéntibus et Claræ
monastérium invádere conántibus, ægra se ad portam afférri vóluit, unáque vas in quo
sanctíssimum Eucharístiæ sacraméntum erat inclúsum, ibíque orávit: Ne tradas, Dómine,
béstiis ánimas confiténtes tibi, et custódi fámulas tuas, quas pretióso sánguine
redemísti. In cujus oratióne ea vox audíta est: Ego vos semper custódiam. Saracéni autem
partim se fugæ mandárunt, partim, qui murum ascénderant, capti óculis, præcípites
cecidérunt. Ipsa dénique Virgo, cum in extrémis ágeret, a cándido beatárum Vírginum
cœtu (inter quas una eminéntior ac fulgídior apparébat) visitáta, ac sacra Eucharístia
sumpta, et peccatórum indulgéntia ab Innocéntio quarto ditáta, tértio Idus Augústi
ánimam Deo réddidit. Post óbitum vero quam plúrimis miráculis resplendéntem, Alexánder
quartus inter sanctas Vírgines rétulit.
en: >-
The noble maiden Clara was born at Assisi in Umbria. In imitation of her holy
fellow-citizen Francis, she distributed all her goods among the poor and needy. She fled
from the din of the world, and betook herself to the Church of St. Mary of the Angels in
the fields, where blessed Francis cut her hair. She stoutly resisted the efforts of her
family to make her come back, and after a while Francis took her to the Church of St.
Damian, where the Lord gathered around her several companions. Thus she founded an holy
Sisterhood, which, at the earnest entreaty of holy Francis, she governed. For two-and-forty
years she directed her monastery with wonderful care and wisdom in the fear of the Lord
and the full keeping of the Rule. Her own life was an instruction and teaching for the
rest, whence others learnt to order their own.
What she might wax stronger in spirit by keeping the body down, she made her bed on the
bare ground, sometimes with little twigs, and with hard wood for a pillow. Her dress was
a gown and cloak of mean and rough cloth, and she sometimes wore hair-cloth next the skin.
She bridled herself with such abstinence, that for a long time she took no bodily
nourishment whatever upon three days in the week. Upon the remaining days she ate so
little that the others wondered how she lived. As long as her health allowed it, she kept
two Lents every year, during which she fasted upon bread and water. Moreover, she was
instant in watching and prayer, wherein she chiefly spent both her days and nights. She
suffered from constant illnesses, and when she could not herself rise to bodily work, she
sat up with the help of the sisters, and with her back propped, worked with her hands,
that she might not be idle even in the midst of her weaknesses. She was an eminent lover
of poverty, from which no need ever made her swerve, and she persistently refused the
possessions which were offered to the sisters by Gregory IX. for their support.
The power of her holy life shone forth in many and diverse miracles. She restored the use
of speech to one of the sisters in her convent; for another she opened a deaf ear; she
healed one sick with fever, one swollen with dropsy, one troubled with an hollow oozing
ulcer, and others afflicted with diverse ailments. She cured a brother of the Order of
Friars Minors of raging madness. Once when all the oil in the house was spent, she took
the vessel and washed it, and it was found filled with oil by the goodness of God. She
multiplied half a loaf till it was enough to satisfy fifty sisters. When the Saracens
attacked Assisi, and were fain to break into Clare's monastery, she being sick, caused
herself to be carried to the door, and likewise the vessel in which was held the Most
Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist, and there she prayed, saying: O Lord, deliver not unto
beasts the souls of them that praise thee, but preserve thine handmaids whom Thou hast
redeemed with thy Precious Blood. Whereupon a voice was heard which said: I will always
preserve you. Some of the Saracens took to flight, and others who had mounted the wall
became blind, and fell down headlong. When Clare herself was at the point of death she
beheld a white multitude of blessed Virgins, with one among them nobler and brighter than
the rest. Having received the Holy Eucharist, and a Plenary Indulgence from Innocent IV.,
she resigned her soul to God upon the 12th day of August. After her death she became
illustrious for very many miracles, and Alexander IV. enrolled her name among those of
the Holy Virgins.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }