Add August Matins readings for SanctiM-track saints

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).

TODO.md

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ across every hour and content type in this app.
      saints (Tridentine/Divino Afflatu-sourced, no Monastic 1617 track) are now done — see
      "Pre-1955 saints' Matins readings" below. The larger pool of saints that *do* have a
      Monastic 1617 track (`SanctiM/`) is in progress — see "SanctiM-track saints' Matins
-     readings" below — January-July done (71/82), ~78 candidates remain (August onward).
+     readings" below — January-August done (84/98), ~65 candidates remain (September onward).
    - The bulk Vulgate (Latin) + Douay-Rheims (English) scripture import into
      `src/data/scripture/` — long-term project, explicitly deferred; Matins scripture
      citations resolve to `missing` text until it lands.
@@ -1501,7 +1501,21 @@ July) — every SanctiM file at these dates that isn't a saint's own real match
 puzzle over. Recognize this pattern (`In Octava S. P. N. Benedicti Abbatis`) and move on
 quickly rather than re-investigating it saint by saint.
 
-**Not done in this pass**: the remaining ~78 SanctiM-track candidates (August onward) — same
+**August done (13/16 saints, 3 left unauthored as no-proper-content)**: `st-peter-ad-vincula`,
+`ss-machabees` (missed pre-1955-pool candidate), `st-stephen-i` (missed pre-1955-pool, "plain
+file is a different, later saint" trap), `st-dominic`, `ss-cyriacus-largus-and-smaragdus`,
+`st-clare` (missed pre-1955-pool candidate), `st-lawrence` (Duplex I class), `st-bernard`,
+`st-bartholomew`, `st-augustine`, `decollation-of-st-john-baptist`, `st-sabina` (missed
+pre-1955-pool candidate), and `assumption` — the Duplex I class feast of the B.V.M. itself,
+confirming this app's calendar does map the Assumption despite the parent CLAUDE.md's older
+note that fixed BVM/Lord feasts were "not modeled by this app at all yet"; Nocturn 1's own
+scripture (Song of Songs) left to the bible-plan store per this project's usual split, only
+Nocturn 2/3 patristic/Gospel content authored here. Left unauthored (no proper content at all
+in the source, same category as prior Common-only/Vigil exceptions): `ss-nabor-and-felix`-style
+`st-romanus` and `st-hermes` (both Common-only), `vigil-of-st-lawrence` (Nocturn 1 only, no
+Nocturn 2/3 content in either track). `npm test`/`tsc --noEmit` both pass.
+
+**Not done in this pass**: the remaining ~65 SanctiM-track candidates (September onward) — same
 authoring shape, continue month by month.
 
 ### Bible-plan TSV — bulk conversion done (2026-08)

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/assumption.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for the Assumption of the B.V.M. (Aug
+# 15, Duplex I class with Common Octave) — SanctiM/08-15.txt bases
+# `@SanctiM/08-15t`, which in turn bases `@Sancti/08-15t` (the whole
+# day, no Nocturn 2/3 override), so this feast's own proper content is
+# sourced from the Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint
+# (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
+# Nocturn 1 (Lectio1-3, the Song of Songs) not authored here, per this
+# project's convention of leaving Nocturn 1 scripture to the bible-plan
+# store rather than this file.
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-15t.txt, English/Sancti/08-15t.txt.
+#
+# Nocturn 2: Lectio4_-6_ (St. John of Damascus's sermon on the
+# Dormition) combined into one reading, one continuous excerpt.
+# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Luke 10:38-42 — the same
+# Martha-and-Mary pericope as `st-martha.yml`'s own Nocturn 3, read
+# here for its traditional allegorical link to Mary's "better part")
+# is a bare incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given,
+# so — per the pre-1955 pass's convention of not transcribing bare
+# incipits — only the homily portion is authored (not marked
+# isGospel), combined with Lectio8-9 as one continuous excerpt of St.
+# Augustine's own (different) sermon on the same passage. No
+# responsory given for either reading.
+id: assumption
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. John of Damascus, Sermon 2 on the Falling-Asleep of the B.V.M."
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Hódie sacra et animáta arca Dei vivéntis, quæ suum in útero concépit Creatórem,
+        requiéscit in templo Dómini, quod nullis est exstrúctum mánibus. Et David exsúltat
+        ejus parens, et cum eo choros ducunt Angeli, célebrant Archángeli, Virtútes
+        gloríficant, Principátus exsúltant, Potestátes collætántur, gaudent Dominatiónes,
+        Throni festum diem agunt, laudant Chérubim, glóriam ejus prǽdicant Séraphim. Hódie
+        Eden novi Adam paradísum súscipit animátum, in quo solúta est condemnátio, in quo
+        plantátum est lignum vitæ, in quo opérta fuit nostra núditas.
+
+
+        Hódie Virgo immaculáta, quæ nullis terrénis inquináta est afféctibus, sed cæléstibus
+        educáta cogitatiónibus, non in terram revérsa est; sed, cum esset animátum cælum, in
+        cæléstibus tabernáculis collocátur. Ex qua enim ómnibus vera vita manávit, quómodo
+        illa mortem gustáret? Sed cedit legi latæ ab eo quem génuit; et, ut fília véteris
+        Adam, véterem senténtiam súbiit (nam et ejus Fílius, qui est vita ipsa, eam non
+        recusávit); ut autem Dei vivéntis Mater, ad illum ipsum digne assúmitur.
+
+
+        Heva, quæ serpéntis suggestióni assénsum præbuit, partus dolóre, et mortis senténtia
+        damnátur, et in inferórum collocátur penetrálibus. Hanc autem vere beátam, quæ Dei
+        verbo aures præstitit, et Spíritus sancti operatióne repléta est, atque ad Archángeli
+        spiritáli salutatióni, sine voluptáte et virili consórtio, Dei Fílium concépit, et
+        sine dolóre áliquo péperit, ac totam se Deo consecrávit, quónam modo mors devoráret?
+        quómodo inferi suscíperent? quómodo corrúptio invaderet corpus illud, in quo vita
+        suscépta est? Huic recta, plana, et facilis ad cælum paráta est via. Si enim, Ubi ego
+        sum, illic et miníster meus erit, inquit vita et véritas Christus; quómodo non pótius
+        mater cum ipso erit?
+      en: >-
+        This day the holy and animated Ark of the living God, which had held within it its own
+        Maker, is borne to rest in that Temple of the Lord, which is not made with hands. David,
+        whence it sprang, leapeth before it, and in company with him the Angels dance, the
+        Archangels sing aloud, the Virtues ascribe glory, the Princedoms shout for joy, the
+        Powers make merry, the Lordships rejoice, the Thrones keep holiday, the Cherubim utter
+        praise, and the Seraphim proclaim its glory. This day the Eden of the new Adam receiveth
+        the living garden of delight, wherein the condemnation was annulled, wherein the Tree of
+        Life was planted, wherein our nakedness was covered.
+
+
+        This day the stainless maiden, who had been defiled by no earthly lust, but ennobled by
+        heavenly desires, returned not to dust, but, being herself a living heaven, took her
+        place among the heavenly mansions. From her true life had flowed for all men, and how
+        should she taste of death? But she yielded obedience to the law established by Him to
+        Whom she had given birth, and, as the daughter of the old Adam, underwent the old
+        sentence, which even her Son, Who is the very Life Itself, had not refused; but, as the
+        Mother of the living God, she was worthily taken by Him unto Himself.
+
+
+        Eve, who had said yea to the proposals of the serpent, was condemned to the pains of
+        travail and the punishment of death, and found her place in the bowels of the
+        Netherworld. But this truly blessed being who had inclined her ears to the word of God,
+        whose womb had been filled by the action of the Holy Ghost, who, as soon as she heard the
+        spiritual salutation of the archangel, had conceived the Son of God without any sexual
+        pleasure or carnal knowledge by a man, who had brought forth her Offspring without any
+        the least pang, who had hallowed herself altogether for the service of God, how was
+        death ever to feed upon her? how was the grave ever to eat her up? how was corruption to
+        break into that body into which Life had been welcomed? For her there was a straight,
+        smooth, and easy way to heaven. For if Christ, Who is the Life and the Truth, hath said
+        Where I am, there shall also My servant be, how much more shall not rather His mother be
+        with Him?
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 3
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Sermon 27 on the Words of the Lord (on Luke 10:38-42)"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Sanctum Evangelium cum legeretur, audivimus a femina religiosa susceptum esse Dominum
+        hospitio, eaque Martha vocabatur. Et cum esset ipsa occupata in cura ministrandi, soror
+        ejus Maria sedebat ad pedes Domini, et audiebat verbum ejus. Laborabat illa, vacabat
+        ista. Illa erogabat, hæc implebatur. Verumtamen Martha laborans multum in illa
+        occupatione et negotio ministrandi, interpellavit Dominum: et de sorore sua conquesta
+        est, quod eam laborantem non adjuvaret.
+
+
+        Dominus autem pro Maria respondit Marthæ: et ipse ejus factus est advocatus, qui judex
+        fuerat interpellatus. Martha, inquit, circa multa es occupata, quando unum est
+        necessarium. Maria meliorem partem elegit, quæ non auferetur ab ea. Audivimus enim et
+        interpellationem interpellantis, et sententiam judicis. Quæ sententia interpellanti
+        respondit, susceptam defendit. Erat enim Maria intenta dulcedini verbi Domini. Intenta
+        erat Martha quomodo pasceret Dominum: intenta Maria quomodo pasceretur a Domino. A
+        Martha convivium Domino parabatur, in cujus convivio Maria jam jucundabatur.
+
+
+        Cum ergo María suaviter audíret verbum dulcissimum, et corde intentissimo pasceretur,
+        interpellato Domino a soróre sua, quomodo putamus eam timuisse, ne diceret ei Dominus:
+        Surge, et adjuva sororem tuam? Mira enim suavitate tenebatur: quæ profecto major est
+        mentis quam ventris. Excusata est, sedit securior. Quomodo autem excusata? Attendamus,
+        inspiciamus, perscrutemur quod possumus, ut pascamur et nos.
+      en: >-
+        When the Holy Gospel was read, we heard how that a godly woman hospitably received the
+        Lord into her house, and that this woman's name was Martha. And while Martha herself was
+        cumbered about much serving, a sister of her's, called Mary, sat at the Lord's Feet, and
+        heard His word. The one worked, the other was idle. One ministered, the other was
+        filled. Nevertheless, Martha, working hard in the bustle and business of the serving,
+        came to the Lord, and made complaint of her sister, because she would not help her in
+        her work.
+
+
+        But the Lord undertook to answer Martha for Mary; He, Who had been called upon to be her
+        Judge, became her Advocate. And Jesus answered and said unto her: Martha, Martha, thou
+        art careful and troubled about many things. But one thing is needful, and Mary hath
+        chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. We have heard both the
+        complaint, and the sentence of the Judge, the which sentence replieth to the complainant,
+        and shieldeth her whom the Lord had received. Mary was wrapped up in the sweetness of
+        the word of the Lord. Martha was busied how to feed the Lord, and Mary, how to be fed by
+        the Lord. Martha was getting ready a banquet for that same Lord, at Whose banquet Mary
+        was already revelling.
+
+
+        When, then, Mary was listening in peace and gentleness to those words of unutterable
+        sweetness, and being feasted to the full extent of her heart's power, and Martha came
+        and complained of her to the Lord, how must we imagine that she feared, lest the Lord
+        should say unto her: Arise, and help thy sister? She was held by that wondrous sweetness
+        the smack whereof is felt more by the mind than by the belly. She was excused, and she
+        sat all the safer. But on what grounds was she excused? Let us now turn our attention to
+        this point, and thoroughly see into and examine it as far as we can, that we also may be
+        fed.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/decollation-of-st-john-baptist.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for the Decollation of St. John the
+# Baptist (Aug 29) — SanctiM/08-29.txt inherits the whole day
+# (`@Sancti/08-29`) with no Nocturn 2/3 override, so this feast's own
+# proper content is sourced from the Tridentine track exactly as for a
+# pre-1955 saint (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints,
+# vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-29.txt, English/Sancti/08-29.txt.
+#
+# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 (St. Ambrose's treatise On Virgins) combined
+# into one reading, one continuous excerpt.
+# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Mark 6:17-29) is a bare
+# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so — per
+# the pre-1955 pass's convention of not transcribing bare incipits —
+# only the homily portion is authored (not marked isGospel), combined
+# with Lectio8 as one continuous excerpt of St. Augustine's sermon.
+# No responsory given for either reading.
+id: decollation-of-st-john-baptist
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, On Virgins, Bk. 3"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Quóniam beáti Joánnis Baptistæ non strictim prætereunda est recordátio, interest ut
+        quis et a quibus et quam ob causam, quo modo et quo témpore sit occisus, advertere
+        debeamus. Ab adúlteris justus occíditur, et a reis in judicem capitális sceleris pœna
+        convértitur. Deínde præmium saltatricis, mors est Prophetæ. Postremo (quod étiam
+        omnes bárbari horrére consuevérunt) inter epulas atque convivia consummandæ
+        crudelitátis profertur edictum; et a convívio ad carcerem, de carcere ad convivium
+        feralis flagitii circumfertur obsequium. Quanta in uno facínore sunt crimina!
+
+
+        Quis non, cum e convívio ad carcerem cursari vidéret, putaret Prophétam jussum esse
+        dimitti? Quis, inquam, cum audísset natalem esse Herodis, solemne convivium, puellæ
+        optiónem eligéndi quod vellet datam; missum ad Joánnem ob solutiónem non arbitrarétur?
+        Quid crudelitáti cum deliciis? quid cum funéribus voluptati? Rápitur ad pœnam Prophéta
+        convivali témpore, convivali præcépto, quo non cuperet vel absolvi: perímitur gládio,
+        caput ejus affertur in disco. Hoc crudelitáti férculum debebátur, quo insatiáta épulis
+        féritas vescerétur.
+
+
+        Intuére, rex acerbíssime, tuo spectacula digna convivio. Pórrige déxteram, ne quid
+        sævítiæ tuæ desit; ut inter digitos tuos rivi défluant sacri cruoris. Et, quóniam non
+        exsaturari épulis fames, non restingui póculis pótuit inauditæ sævítiæ sitis; bibe
+        sánguinem scaturiéntibus adhuc venis exsecti cápitis profluentem. Cerne óculos in ipsa
+        morte sceleris tui testes, aversántes conspéctum deliciárum. Claudúntur lúmina non
+        tam mortis necessitate quam horrore luxuriæ. Os aureum illud exsangue, cujus
+        senténtiam ferre non poteras, conticescit, et adhuc timétur.
+      en: >-
+        We must not hurry by the record of the Blessed Baptist John. We must ask what he was,
+        and by whom, and why, and how, and when he was slain. He was a righteous man murdered by
+        adulterers. The guilty passed upon their judge the sentence of death. Moreover, the death
+        of the Prophet was the fee of a dancing-girl. And lastly, there was a feature about it
+        from which even savages shrink; the order for completing the atrocity was given amid the
+        merriment of a dinner-party. From banquet to prison, from prison to banquet, that was the
+        course run by the servants of the murderer. How many horrors does this simple crime
+        embrace within its details?
+
+
+        Who is there, that, on seeing the messenger hasten from the dinner-table to the prison,
+        would not have forthwith concluded that he carried an order for the Prophet's release. If
+        any one had heard that it was Herod's birth-day, and that he was giving a great feast,
+        and that he had offered a damsel the choice of whatever she listed, and that thereupon a
+        messenger had been sent to John's dungeon. If any one, I say, had heard this, what would
+        he have supposed? He would have concluded that the damsel had asked and obtained John's
+        freedom. What have executions in common with dinners, or death with gaiety? While the
+        banquet was going on, the Prophet was hurried to death, by an order from the reveller
+        whom he had not troubled even by a prayer for release. He was slain with the sword, and
+        his head was served up in a plate. This was the new dish demanded by a cruelty which the
+        Feast had been powerless to glut.
+
+
+        Look, savage King, look at a decoration which suiteth well with thy banquet. Put out
+        thine hand, so as to lose no part of the luxury of cruelty, and let the streams of the
+        sacred blood run between thy fingers. Thine hunger the dinner hath been unable to
+        satisfy, thy cups have not been able to quench thine inhuman thirst. Suck, suck the blood
+        which the still palpitating veins are discharging from the place where the neck has been
+        severed. Look at the eyes. Even in death they remain the eyes of a witness of thine
+        uncleanness, but they are closing themselves upon the spectacle of thy pleasures. Those
+        eyes indeed are shutting, but it seems not so much from the laws of natural death, as
+        from horror at the scene of thine enjoyment. The golden mouth, whose bloodless lips are
+        silent now, can repeat no more the denunciation which thou couldest not bear to hear, and
+        still thou art afraid of it.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 3
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, New Sermons (on Mark 6:17-29)"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Cum sanctum Evangélium legerétur, crudele spectaculum ante óculos nostros constitutum
+        est: caput sancti Joánnis in disco, feralis missus crudelitátis propter ódium
+        veritátis. Puella saltat, et sævit mater; et inter lascivias et delicias convivántium
+        témere jurátur, et ímpie, quod jurátur, implétur. Factum est Joánni, quod ipse
+        prædixerat; de Dómino enim Jesu Christo dixerat: Illum oportet crescere, me autem
+        minui. Iste minutus est in cápite, ille crevit in cruce. Odium péperit véritas. Non
+        pótuit æquo animo tolerári quod homo Dei sanctus monebat; qui útique salútem eórum
+        quærebat, quos sic monebat. Respondérunt illi mala pro bonis.
+
+
+        Quid enim ille diceret, nisi quo plenus erat? et quid illi respondérent, nisi quo pleni
+        erant? Ille tríticum seminávit, sed spinas invénit. Dicebat regi: Non licet tibi habere
+        uxórem fratris tui. Vincebat enim regem libído: tenebat apud se prohíbitam uxórem
+        fratris sui. Sed eum tamen sic libebat, ut non sæviret; honorábat eum, a quo verum
+        audiebat. Sed mulier detestábilis ódium concipiebat, quod aliquándo dato témpore
+        páreret. Quando autem parturiebat, péperit filiam, filiam saltántem.
+      en: >-
+        The reading of the Holy Gospel hath set a scene of cruelty before our eyes: even the
+        head of St. John in a charger; a message of death sent forth to discharge the bloody
+        commands of one that hateth the truth; a damsel dancing, and a mother rabid; a rash oath
+        sworn in the midst of uncleanness and the revels of a supper, and a wicked fulfillment of
+        the oath so sworn. It befell unto John according to his own saying. For he had said
+        concerning the Lord Jesus Christ: He must increase, but I must decrease; so John
+        decreased by an head, and Christ's height was made higher upon the Cross. The truth drew
+        hatred. It could not be borne in patience that the holy man of God should utter a
+        rebuke, albeit he sought by his rebuke nothing but the soul's health of them to whom he
+        addressed it. They repaid him evil for good.
+
+
+        For what could he say but that whereof he was full? And what could they answer him but
+        that whereof they were full? He sowed wheat, and found thorns. He had said unto the
+        King: It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife. Lust had got the better of
+        the King, and he kept a woman whom it was not lawful for him to have, even his brother's
+        wife. But she pleased him, so that his cruelty was lulled. He respected the Saint who had
+        spoken the truth to him. But the horrible woman conceived hatred, and by-and-by brought
+        it forth. When she brought forth, she brought forth a girl, a dancing-girl.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-cyriacus-largus-and-smaragdus.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for Ss. Cyriacus, Largus, and
+# Smaragdus, Martyrs (Aug 8) — SanctiM/08-08.txt bases `@Sancti/08-08`
+# (the whole day, no Nocturn 2/3 override) but narrows the Officium to
+# Cyriacus alone, the same "Monastic office narrows a joint feast"
+# pattern already seen for several other saints this pass (e.g.
+# `ss-vincent-and-anastasius.yml`) — the full three-martyr text is
+# used here per vu-prefer-text-over-missing (see memory
+# vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-08.txt, English/Sancti/08-08.txt.
+#
+# Nocturn 2: Lectio4 (the martyrs' vita) and Lectio5-6 (St. John
+# Chrysostom's sermon, a genuinely distinct patristic source) kept
+# split.
+# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Mark 16:15-18) is a bare
+# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so — per
+# the pre-1955 pass's convention of not transcribing bare incipits —
+# only the homily portion is authored (not marked isGospel), combined
+# with Lectio8-9 as one continuous excerpt of Pope St. Gregory the
+# Great's homily. No responsory given for either.
+id: ss-cyriacus-largus-and-smaragdus
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Cyríacus diaconus, cum Sisinio, Largo et Smaragdo diutius inclusus in carcere, multa
+        édidit miracula, in quibus Arthémiam Diocletiáni filiam precibus a dæmone liberávit;
+        missusque ad Saporem Persárum regem, Jobíam étiam ejus filiam a nefario spíritu
+        erípuit. Rege vero ejus patre cum quadringentis ac trigínta aliis baptizatis, Romam
+        rediit; ubi, Maximiáni imperatóris jussu comprehénsus, catenis vinctus ante rhedam
+        suam tráhitur; et post dies quatuor e carcere edúctus, pice liquáta perfusus et in
+        catasta exténsus, demum cum Largo et Smaragdo aliisque viginti secúri percússus est via
+        Salaria, ad hortos Sallustiános. Quorum córpora in eádem via décimo septimo Kalendas
+        Aprilis sepúlta a Joánne presbytero, póstea sexto Idus Augusti a Marcello Pontifice et
+        Lucina nobili femina lineis velis involuta et pretiósis unguentis condíta, in ipsíus
+        Lucinæ prædium via Ostiénsi, septimo ab Urbe lápide transláta sunt.
+      en: >-
+        Cyriacus the Deacon was long kept in prison with Sisinius, Largus, and Smaragdus, and
+        wrought many wonderful works. Among other things he by his prayers freed from a devil
+        Arthemia, a daughter of Diocletian, and, being sent to Sapor, King of the Persians, also
+        delivered his daughter Jobia from a foul spirit. He baptized the king, her father, and
+        four hundred and thirty others, and afterwards returned to Rome. He was arrested by
+        command of the Emperor Maximian, and dragged in chains before his chariot. Then after
+        four days he was brought forth from prison, had boiling pitch poured upon him, was
+        stretched on a block, and at last was slain with the axe, along with Largus, Smaragdus,
+        and twenty others, at the gardens of Sallust, on the Salarian Way. On this Way were their
+        bodies buried by John the Priest, but afterwards, on the 8th of August, Pope Marcellus and
+        the noble lady Lucina took them and wrapped them in linen, and embalmed them with costly
+        ointments, and carried them to the farm belonging to the said lady Lucina, at the seventh
+        milestone from Rome on the road to Ostia.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. John Chrysostom, Sermon 1 on the Martyrs"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Nemo est, qui nesciat, Mártyrum glorias ad hoc divino consílio a Dei pópulis
+        frequentári, ut et illis débitus honor dicétur, et nobis virtútis exémpla, favénte
+        Christo, monstréntur; ut, dum hæc ita celebrári perspícimus, cognoscámus quanta eos
+        glória máneat in cælis, quorum natalítia táliter celebrántur in terris; quo possímus,
+        étiam ipsi, tálibus provocári exémplis, virtúte pari, devotióne consímili ac fide; ut,
+        Christo præstánte, dimicáre et víncere hostem possímus, ut, parta victória, cum iísdem
+        Sanctis in regnis cæléstibus triumphémus.
+
+
+        Quis est enim, qui eórum volens mérito copulári, nisi prius constántiam eórum téneat,
+        sectétur fidem, imitétur virtútem passiónis; eórum glóriam páribus vitæ lineaméntis aut
+        invéniat aut exquírat? Qui, etsi martýrio par esse non possit, tamen múneris tanti
+        dignitáte se quisque bonis áctibus dignum præbeat. Adest enim clementíssimus Deus, qui
+        desiderántibus suis aut martýrium præbeat, aut, sine martýrio, cum Sanctis præmia
+        divína retríbuat.
+      en: >-
+        Every man knoweth how, by the good Providence of God, the diverse glories of His
+        Martyrs are held in such esteem by His people, that the same His Saints in all places
+        receive worthy honour, and before us is set, by the favour of Christ, the noble example
+        of their courage: thus are we stirred up to consider, on the occasion of these Holidays,
+        how great glory doth abide them in heaven, whose birthdays are thus kept upon earth:
+        thereby, also, we are roused to strive to be like them, brave, godly, and true: so that,
+        in the strength of Christ, we, like them, may wrestle with, and conquer our enemy, and,
+        when we have gained the same victory that they gained, may with them at last be glorified
+        in the kingdom of heaven.
+
+
+        For what man is there willing to share their reward, that if he do not first lay hold on
+        their steadfastness, follow after the example of their faith, and imitate their brave
+        patience, can either seek or find their glory by likeness to their lives? But whosoever
+        doth so follow them, let him not doubt but that, though in very deed he gain not the
+        crown of martyrdom, he is yet able by good works to make himself meet therefor. For we
+        have a most merciful God, Which either giveth Martyrdom unto such as be willing, or,
+        without Martyrdom, doth make them joint heirs with the Saints in the kingdom of God.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 3
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "Pope St. Gregory the Great, Homily 29 on the Gospels (on Mark 16:15-18)"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Potest omnis creaturæ nómine omnis natio Géntium designari. Ante enim dictum fuerat: In
+        viam Géntium ne abieritis; nunc autem dícitur: Prædicate omni creaturæ: ut scilicet
+        prius a Judǽa Apostolórum repulsa prædicátio tunc nobis in adjutórium fieret, cum hanc
+        illa ad damnatiónis suæ testimónium superba repulísset. Sed cum discipulos ad
+        prædicándum Véritas mittit, quid aliud in mundo facit, nisi grana séminis spargit? Et
+        pauca grana mittit in semine, ut multárum messium fruges recipiat ex nostra fide.
+
+
+        Neque étenim in universo mundo tanta fidelium messis exsúrgeret, si de manu Dómini
+        super rationalem terram illa electa grana prædicántium non venissent. Sequitur: Qui
+        crediderit et baptizátus fúerit, salvus erit: qui vero non credíderit, condemnábitur.
+        Fortasse unusquísque apud semetípsum dicat: Ego jam credidi, salvus ero. Verum dicit, si
+        fidem opéribus tenet. Vera étenim fides est, quæ in hoc, quod verbis dicit, móribus non
+        contradicit. Hinc est enim quod de quibusdam falsis fidelibus Paulus dicit: Qui
+        confiténtur se nosse Deum, factis autem negant.
+
+
+        Signa autem eos qui credituri sunt, hæc sequéntur: In nómine meo dæmónia ejícient,
+        linguis loquéntur novis, serpéntes tollent: et si mortíferum quid bíberint, non eis
+        nocébit: super ægros manus impónent, et bene habébunt. Numquidnam, fratres mei, quia
+        ista signa non fácitis, minime creditis? Sed hæc necessaria in exordio Ecclésiæ fuérunt.
+        Ut enim ad fidem crésceret multitúdo credéntium, miraculis fuerat nutriénda: quia et
+        nos, cum arbústa plantamus, tamdiu eis aquam infúndimus, quoúsque ea in terra jam
+        coaluisse videámus: et si semel radícem fíxerint, irrigátio cessabit. Hinc est enim quod
+        Paulus dicit: Linguæ in signum sunt non fidelibus, sed infidelibus.
+      en: >-
+        By the words every creature we may understand every tribe of the Gentiles. Of aforetime
+        it had been said, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, but now, Preach the Gospel to
+        every creature, that, since the Jews had proudly rejected the preaching of the Apostles,
+        that might become our gain which was the seal of their condemnation. But when the
+        Eternal Truth sendeth forth His disciples to preach, what doth He but scatter seed over
+        the field of the world? He scattered abroad a few grains for seed, that He may afterward
+        reap an abundant harvest in our faith.
+
+
+        The great harvest of faithful souls throughout the whole world would never have sprung
+        up, if the hand of the Lord had not first scattered those chosen grains of preachers
+        over the reasonable soil of men's minds. Then is written, He that believeth and is
+        baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. Now, perchance, thou
+        sayest in thine heart: I believe, and therefore I shall be saved. True, if to thy faith
+        thou dost add works. He only hath a living faith whose life doth not give the lie to his
+        profession. It is of this that Paul speaketh, where he saith of certain vain believers,
+        They profess that they know God but in works they deny Him.
+
+
+        And these signs shall follow them that believe: In My name they shall cast out devils,
+        they shall speak with new tongues, they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any
+        deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall
+        recover. My brethren, these signs do not follow us. Do we, then, not believe? Nay. The
+        truth is, these things were needful when the Church was young. That she might grow by the
+        increase of the faithful, she needed to be nourished with miracles. So we, when we plant
+        a young tree, continually water and tend it, till we see that it hath taken firm root in
+        the earth; but when once it hath taken firm root, it can grow of itself. Hence Paul saith
+        of tongues: Tongues are for a sign not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-machabees.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for the Holy Machabees, Martyrs (Aug 1,
+# sharing the date with St. Peter's Chains — see st-peter-ad-vincula.yml).
+# No genuine SanctiM match: the only SanctiM file for this date,
+# `SanctiM/08-01.txt`, bases `@Sancti/08-01` (Peter's Chains, not the
+# Machabees) — 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/08-01r.txt, English/Sancti/08-01r.txt.
+# Single lesson (Lectio93), one continuous excerpt of St. Gregory
+# Nazianzen's sermon, no responsory given in the source.
+id: ss-machabees
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Gregory Nazianzen, Sermon 20 on the Machabees"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Quidnam Machabǽi? Horum enim nómine dies festus præsénti frequéntia celebrátur. Qui,
+        etsi apud multos non sunt in honóre, quod illud certámen post Christum non
+        suscepérunt; tamen digni sunt qui ab ómnibus honoréntur, quia pro pátriis légibus et
+        institútis fortes constantésque se præbuérunt. Nam qui martýrium subiére ante Christi
+        passiónem, quid factúri erant, si post Christum persecutiónem passi fuíssent, ejúsque
+        mortem, nostræ salútis causa suscéptam, ad imitándum propósitam habuíssent? Quorum
+        enim, nullo propósito exémplo, talis tántaque virtus fuit; an non ii, exémplum illud
+        intuéntes, fórtius in certámen descendíssent? Quin étiam mýstica quædam et occúlta
+        rátio, mihi quidem atque ómnibus Dei amatóribus valde probábilis est, néminem eórum qui
+        ante Christi advéntum martýrio consummáti sunt, id sine fide in Christum cónsequi
+        potuísse.
+      en: >-
+        What were the Machabees? For it is under their name that the Festival at which you are
+        this day assembled is kept. It is true that many persons do not hold them in honour,
+        because they fought before the coming of Christ; nevertheless they deserve to be
+        venerated by all men, for they bore themselves bravely and faithfully in defence of the
+        laws and ordinances of their people. They that underwent martyrdom before Christ came,
+        what would not have been their deeds, if they had suffered persecution after He came, and
+        had had before them for a pattern the Death which He embraced for the sake of man's
+        salvation? With no example to lead them, their bravery was what it was; had they had the
+        example before their eyes, would they not have gone down with double nerve to the battle?
+        There is a mystic and subtle idea, which seemeth very likely to me and to all lovers of
+        God, that none of those who were crowned with martyrdom before Christ came, could have
+        been so, unless they had had faith in Christ.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-augustine.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Augustine, Bishop, Confessor,
+# Doctor (Aug 28) — SanctiM/08-28.txt inherits the whole day
+# (`@Sancti/08-28`) with no Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own
+# vita is sourced from the Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955
+# saint (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-28.txt, English/Sancti/08-28.txt.
+# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no genuine
+# source break. No responsory given in the source.
+id: st-augustine
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Augustinus, Tagaste in Africa honestis parentibus natus, ac puer docilitate ingenii
+        æquales longe superans, brevi omnibus doctrina antecelluit. Adolescens, dum esset
+        Carthagine, in Manichæorum hæresim incidit. Postea Romam profectus, inde Mediolanum
+        missus ut rhetoricam doceret, cum ibi frequens Ambrósii episcopi esset auditor, ejus
+        opera incensus studio catholicæ fidei, annos natus triginta tres ab ipso baptizatur.
+        Reversus in Africam, cum religione vitæ sanctimoniam conjungens, a Valerio notæ
+        sanctitatis episcopo Hipponensi presbyter factus est. Quo tempore familiam instituit
+        religiosorum, quibuscum victu communi eodemque cultu utens, eos ad apostolicæ vitæ
+        doctrinæque disciplinam diligentissime erudiebat. Sed cum vigeret Manichæorum hæresis,
+        vehementius in illam invehi cœpit, Fortunatumque hæresiarcham confutavit.
+
+
+        Hac Augustíni pietate commotus Valerius, eum adjutorem adhibuit episcopalis officii.
+        Nihil illo fuit humilius, nihil continentius. Lectus ac vestitus moderatus, vulgaris
+        mensa, quam semper sacra vel lectione vel disputatione condiebat. Tanta benignitate
+        fuit in pauperes, ut, cum non esset alia facultas, sacra vasa frangeret ad eorum
+        inopiam sustentandam. Feminarum, et in eis sororis, et fratris filiæ, contubernium
+        familiaritatemque vitavit: quippe qui diceret, etsi propinquæ mulieres suspectæ non
+        essent, tamen quæ ad eas ventitarent, posse suspicionem efficere. Nullum finem fecit
+        prædicandi Dei verbum, nisi gravi morbo oppressus. Hæreticos perpetuo insectatus et
+        coram et scriptis, ac nullo loco passus consistere, Africam a Manichæorum,
+        Donatistarum, Pelagianorum, aliorumque præterea hæreticorum errore magna ex parte
+        liberavit.
+
+
+        Tam multa pie, subtiliter et copiose scripsit, ut christianam doctrinam maxime
+        illustrarit. Quem in primis secuti sunt, qui postea theologicam disciplinam via et
+        ratione tradiderunt. Wandalis Africam bello vastantibus, et Hipponem tertium jam
+        mensem obsidentibus, in febrim incidit. Itaque cum discessum e vita sibi instare
+        intelligeret, Psalmos David qui ad pœnitentiam pertinent, in conspectu positos profusis
+        lacrimis legebat. Solebat autem dicere neminem, etsi nullius sceleris sibi conscius
+        esset, committere debere, ut sine pænitentia migraret e vita. Ergo sensibus integris,
+        in oratione defixus, astantibus fratribus, quos ad caritatem, pietatem, virtutesque
+        omnes erat adhortatus, migravit in cælum. Vixit annos septuaginta sex, in episcopatu
+        ad triginta sex. Cujus corpus primum in Sardiniam delatum, deínde a Luitprando,
+        Longobardorum rege, magno pretio redemptum, Ticinum translatum est, ibique honorifice
+        conditum.
+      en: >-
+        Augustine was born of honourable parents at Tagaste in Africa. As a boy his great
+        intellectual sharpness caused him to distance all his companions in learning. When he was
+        living at Carthage as a young man, he fell into the heresy of the Manichaeans. He
+        afterwards went to Rome, and was thence sent to Milan to teach Rhetoric. At Milan he
+        often went to hear the sermons of Bishop Ambrose, by whose labours he was drawn to the
+        Catholic Church, and by whom he was baptized, at the age of thirty-three. After his
+        return to Africa, Valerius, the illustrious and saintly Bishop of Hippo, finding him to
+        unite holiness of life, with Catholic profession, made him a Priest. At this time he
+        founded a sort of family of godly men, who lived and worshipped in common with him, and
+        whom he earnestly formed upon the model of the Apostolic life and teaching. The
+        Manichaean heresy flaming forth with violence, he began strongly to attack it, and
+        confounded the arch-heretic Fortunatus.
+
+
+        Valerius, moved by the godly zeal of Augustine, joined him with himself as an assistant
+        in his duties of Bishop. He was lowly and pure in the highest degree. His furniture and
+        dress were plain, and his food of the commonest sort, which he always seasoned when at
+        table by either reading some religious book, or arguing upon some religious subject. His
+        tenderness to the poor was such that, failing all other resources, he broke up the
+        hallowed vessels to relieve their wants. It was his rule not to dwell or be very close
+        friends with any woman, a rule which he did not relax even in the case of his sister and
+        niece, for he was accustomed to say, that although no scandal could arise in the case of
+        such near kinswomen, yet it might arise concerning the women friends who sought their
+        company. He never ceased to preach the Word of God, until he was disabled by heavy
+        sickness. He was always an hard follower after heretics, and by his words and his
+        writings never suffered them to rest anywhere. In great measure, he purged Africa of the
+        Manicheans, Donatists, Pelagians, and other heretics.
+
+
+        He wrote so much, and that with such godliness and understanding, that he is to be held
+        among the very chiefest of them by whom the teachings of Christianity have been shown
+        forth. He is one of the first of those whom later theologians have followed, in method,
+        and in argument. He fell sick of a fever what time the Vandals were laying Africa waste,
+        and when they were busy in the third month of besieging Hippo. When he understood that
+        his departure from this present life was at hand, he caused the Psalms of David which
+        most speak the language of repentance to be placed before him, and read them with tears,
+        for he was wont to say that even if a man's conscience were to accuse him of no sin, he
+        should not dare to leave this world except as a penitent. His senses remained vigorous to
+        the last, and it was while rapt in prayer, in the presence of the brethren whom he had
+        exhorted to love, godliness, and all goodness, that he departed for heaven. He lived 76
+        years, whereof he had been a Bishop nearly thirty six. His body was first carried to
+        Sardinia, but Luitprand, King of the Lombards, afterwards bought it for a great price,
+        and took it to Ticino, where it is honourably buried.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-bartholomew.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Bartholomew, Apostle (Aug 24) —
+# SanctiM/08-24.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/08-24`) with no
+# Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own proper content is sourced
+# from the Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see
+# memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-24.txt, English/Sancti/08-24.txt.
+# Lectio4-5 combined with `Lectio6_` (itself a same-file indirection
+# referenced by `Lectio6`) — all one continuous vita, no genuine
+# source break. No responsory given in the source.
+id: st-bartholomew
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Bartholomǽus Apóstolus, Galilǽus, cum in Indiam citeriórem, quæ ei in orbis terrárum
+        sortitióne ad prædicándum Jesu Christi Evangélium obvénerat, progréssus esset,
+        advéntum Dómini Jesu juxta sancti Matthǽi Evangélium illis géntibus prædicávit. Sed,
+        cum in ea província plúrimos ad Jesum Christum convertísset, multos labóres
+        calamitatésque perpéssus, venit in majórem Arméniam.
+
+
+        Ibi Polýmium regem et cónjugem ejus ac prætérea duódecim civitátes ad christiánam
+        fidem perdúxit. Quæ res in eum magnam invídiam concitávit illíus gentis sacerdótum.
+        Nam usque ádeo Astýagem, Polýmii regis fratrem, in Apóstolum incendérunt, ut is vivo
+        Bartholomǽo pellem crudéliter détrahi jússerit ac caput abscíndi; quo in martýrio
+        ánimam Deo réddidit.
+
+
+        Ejus corpus Albáni, quæ est urbs majóris Arméniæ, ubi is passus fúerat, sepúltus est.
+        Quod póstea ad Líparam ínsulam delátum, inde Benevéntum translátum est. Postrémo
+        Romam ab Ottóne tértio imperatóre portátum, in Tíberis ínsula, in ecclésia ejus nómine
+        Deo dicáta, collocátum fuit.
+      en: >-
+        The Apostle Bartholomew was a Galilean. In the division of the world among the Apostles
+        it fell to his lot to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ in hither India. He went thither
+        and preached to those nations the coming of the Lord Jesus, according to the Gospel of
+        St. Matthew. When he had turned many in that province to Jesus Christ, and had endured
+        many toils and woes, he came into the Greater Armenia.
+
+
+        There he brought to the Christian faith Polymius the King, and his wife, and likewise
+        the inhabitants of twelve cities. This stirred up a great hatred against him among the
+        priests of that nation. They so inflamed against the Apostle Astyages the brother of
+        King Polymius, that he savagely ordered Bartholomew to be flayed alive and beheaded;
+        under the which martyrdom he gave up his soul to God.
+
+
+        His body was buried at the town of Albanopolis in the Greater Armenia, where he had
+        suffered. It was afterwards taken to the Island of Lipari, and thence carried to
+        Benevento. Lastly, the Emperor Otto III brought it to Rome, where it was laid in the
+        Church dedicated to God in his name on the Island in the Tiber.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-bernard.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Bernard, Abbot, Doctor (Aug 20) —
+# SanctiM/08-20.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/08-20`) with no
+# Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own vita is sourced from the
+# Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see memory
+# vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-20.txt, English/Sancti/08-20.txt.
+# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no genuine
+# source break. No responsory given in the source.
+id: st-bernard
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Bernárdus, Fóntanis in Burgúndia honésto loco natus, adolescéns propter egrégiam
+        formam veheménter sollicitátus a muliéribus, numquam de senténtia coléndæ castitátis
+        dimovéri pótuit. Quas diáboli tentatiónes ut effúgeret, duos et vigínti annos natus,
+        monastérium Cisterciensé, unde hic ordo incépit, et quod tum sanctitáte florébat,
+        íngredi constítuit. Quo Bernárdi consílio cógnito, fratres summópere conáti sunt eum a
+        propósito deterrére: in quo ipse eloquéntior ac felícior fuit. Nam sic eos aliósque
+        multos in suam perdúxit senténtiam, ut cum eo trigínta júvenes eámdem religiónem
+        suscéperint. Mónachus jejúnio ita déditus erat, ut quóties suméndus esset cibus,
+        tóties torméntum subíre viderétur. In vigíliis étiam et oratiónibus mirífice se
+        exercébat: et christiánam paupertátem colens, quasi cæléstem vitam agébat in terris, ab
+        omni caducárum rerum cura et cupiditáte aliénam.
+
+
+        Elucébat in eo humílitas, misericórdia, benígnitas: contemplatióni autem sic addíctus
+        erat, ut vix sénsibus, nisi ad offícia pietátis, uterétur: in quibus tamen prudéntiæ
+        laude excellébat. Quo in stúdio occupátus, Genuénsem, ac Mediolanénsem, aliósque
+        episcopátus oblátos recusávit, proféssus se tanti offícii múnere indígnum esse. Abbas
+        factus Claravallénsis, multis in locis ædificávit monastéria, in quibus præclára
+        Bernárdi institútio ac disciplína diu viguit. Romæ, sanctórum Vincéntii et Anastásii
+        monastério ab Innocéntio secúndo Papa restitúto præfécit abbátem illum, qui póstea
+        Eugénius tértius Summus Póntifex fuit, ad quem étiam librum misit de Consideratióne.
+
+
+        Multa prætérea scripsit, in quibus appáret, eum doctrína pótius divínitus trádita,
+        quam labóre comparáta, instrúctum fuísse. In summa virtútum laude exorátus a máximis
+        princípibus de eórum componéndis controvérsiis, et de ecclesiásticis rebus
+        constituéndis, sǽpius in Itáliam venit. Innocéntium item secúndum Pontíficem Máximum
+        in confutándo schísmate Petri Leónis, cum apud imperatórem et Henrícum Angliæ regem,
+        tum in concílio Pisis coácto, egrégie adjúvit. Dénique tres et sexagínta annos natus,
+        obdormívit in Dómino, ac miráculis illústris, ab Alexándro tértio Papa inter sanctos
+        relátus est. Pius vero octávus Póntifex Máximus ex sacrórum Rítuum Congregatiónis
+        consílio sanctum Bernárdum universális Ecclésiæ Doctórem declarávit et confirmávit, nec
+        non Missam et Offícium de Doctóribus ab ómnibus recitári jussit, atque indulgéntias
+        plenárias quotánnis in perpétuum órdinis Cisterciénsium ecclésias visitántibus die
+        hujus sancti festo concéssit.
+      en: >-
+        Bernard was born at a decent place in Burgundy called Fontaines. On account of
+        extraordinary good looks, he was as a boy very much sought after by women, but he could
+        never be turned aside from his resolution to keep chaste. To fly from these temptations
+        of the devil, he determined at two-and-twenty years of age to enter the Monastery of
+        Citeaux, whence the Cistercian Order took its rise. When this resolution of Bernard's
+        became known, his brothers did all their diligence to change his purpose, but he only
+        became the more eloquent and happy about it. Them and others he so brought over to his
+        mind, that thirty young men entered the same Order along with him. As a monk he was so
+        given to fasting, that as often as he had to eat, so often he seemed to be in pain. He
+        exercised himself wonderfully in watching and prayer, and was a great lover of Christian
+        poverty. Thus he led on earth an heavenly life, purged of all care and desire for
+        transitory things.
+
+
+        He was a burning and shining light of lowliness, mercifulness, and kindness. His
+        concentration of thought was such, that he hardly used his senses except to do good
+        works, in which latter he acted with admirable wisdom. Thus occupied, he refused the
+        Bishoprics of Genoa, Milan, and others, which were offered to him, declaring that he was
+        unworthy of so high a sphere of duty. Being made Abbot of Clairvaux, he built monasteries
+        in many places, wherein the excellent rules and discipline of Bernard long flourished.
+        When Pope Innocent II. restored the monastery of St. Vincent and St. Anastasius at Rome,
+        Bernard set over it the Abbot who was afterwards the Supreme Pontiff Eugene III., and who
+        is also the same to whom he addressed his book upon Consideration.
+
+
+        He was the author of many writings, in which it is manifest that his teaching was
+        rather given him of God, than gained by hard work. In consequence of his high reputation
+        for excellence, he was called by the most exalted Princes to act as arbiter of their
+        disputes, and for this end, and to settle affairs of the Church, he often went to Italy.
+        He was an eminent helper to Pope Innocent II., in putting down the schism of Peter Leoni,
+        and worked to this end, both at the Courts of the Emperor and of Henry King of England,
+        and in the Council of Pisa. He fell asleep in the Lord, in the sixty-third year of his
+        age. He was famous for miracles, and Pope Alexander III. numbered him among the Saints.
+        Pope Pius VIII., acting on the advice of the Congregation of Sacred Rites, declared and
+        confirmed St. Bernard a Doctor of the Universal Church. He also commanded that all should
+        use the Mass and Office for him as for a Doctor, and granted perpetual yearly plenary
+        indulgences to all who should visit Churches of the Cistercian Order upon the Feast-day
+        of this Saint.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-clare.yml

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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 }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-dominic.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Dominic, Confessor (Aug 4) —
+# SanctiM/08-04.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/08-04`) with no
+# Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own vita is sourced from the
+# Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see memory
+# vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-04.txt, English/Sancti/08-04.txt.
+# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no genuine
+# source break. No responsory given in the source.
+id: st-dominic
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Dominicus, Calarógæ in Hispánia ex nobili Gusmanórum família natus, Paléntiæ
+        liberálibus disciplinis et theologíæ operam dedit; quo in studio cum plurimum
+        profecísset, prius Oxoménsis ecclésiæ canonicus regularis, deínde ordinis fratrum
+        Prædicatórum auctor fuit. Hujus mater grávida sibi visa est, in quiete, continére in
+        alvo cátulum ore præferentem facem, qua, éditus in lucem, orbem terrárum incénderet.
+        Quo somnio significabátur fore ut, splendore sanctitátis ac doctrinæ, gentes ad
+        christianam pietátem inflammaréntur. Veritátem éxitus comprobávit; id enim et præstitit
+        per se, et per sui ordinis socios deinceps est consecutus.
+
+
+        Hujus autem ingenium ac virtus maxime enituit in everténdis hæreticis, qui
+        perniciosis erróribus Tolosátes pervertere conabántur; quo in negótio septem consumpsit
+        annos. Postea Romam venit ad Lateranense concílium cum episcopo Tolosano, ut ordo, quem
+        institúerat, ab Innocentio tertio confirmarétur. Quæ res dum in deliberatióne
+        versatur, Dominicus hortatu Pontificis ad suos revértitur, ut sibi regulam delígeret.
+        Romam rédiens, ab Honorio tertio, qui próximus Innocentio successerat, confirmatiónem
+        ordinis Prædicatórum ímpetrat. Romæ autem duo instituit monasteria, álterum virórum,
+        mulíerum álterum. Tres étiam mórtuos ad vitam revocávit, múltaque alia edidit miracula,
+        quibus ordo Prædicatórum mirifice propagari cœpit.
+
+
+        Verum, cum ejus ópera ubíque terrárum monasteria jam ædificaréntur, innumerabilésque
+        hómines religiosam ac piam vitam institúerent, Bononiæ anno Christi ducentésimo
+        vigesimo primo supra millesimum in febrem incidit. Ex qua cum se moriturum
+        intellígeret, convocátis frátribus et alumnis suæ disciplinæ, eos ad innocéntiam et
+        integritátem cohortátus est. Postremo caritátem, humilitátem, paupertátem, tamquam
+        certum patrimónium eis testaménto relíquit; fratribúsque orántibus, in illis verbis,
+        Subveníte, Sancti Dei, occúrrite, Angeli, obdormívit in Dómino, octavo Idus Augusti.
+        Quem póstea Gregórius nonus Pontifex rétulit in Sanctórum númerum.
+      en: >-
+        Dominic was a Spaniard, a son of the noble family of Guzman. He was born at Calaruega,
+        in Old Castile, and was sent to be taught worldly and sacred learning at Palencia. He
+        attained great success in his studies, and became, first, a Regular Canon of the
+        Cathedral Church of Osma, and afterwards Founder of the Order of Friars Preachers. While
+        his mother was great with child, she dreamt that what was in her womb was a little whelp
+        dog with a lighted torch in his mouth, and that when she was delivered of him, he set all
+        the world on fire. By this dream was figured that burning and shining light of holiness
+        of life and power of doctrine, whereby he should enkindle godliness throughout whole
+        nations. The end proved the truth of the image, for this is in good sooth what his work
+        was, a work which he hath continued to do through the Brethren of his Order.
+
+
+        But his wisdom and bravery were most chiefly shown in confounding the heretics, who
+        were fain, with their pestilential falsehoods, to corrupt the people of the county of
+        Toulouse. In this business he spent seven years. Afterwards he came to Rome to the
+        Fourth Lateran Council, along with the Bishop of Toulouse, that the Order which he had
+        founded might be confirmed by Innocent III. While the matter was under consideration,
+        Dominick, by the advice of the Pope, went home, that he might put his Rule into shape.
+        He returned again to Rome, and obtained from Honorius III., the immediate successor of
+        Innocent, the confirmation of the Order of Preachers. At Rome Dominic founded two
+        Convents, one for men, and one for women. He raised three dead men to life, and worked
+        many other miracles, whereby the Order of Preachers became exceedingly spread abroad.
+
+
+        By his work convents were already during his life-time established in all countries,
+        and almost countless persons embraced the life of prayer and godliness. In the year of
+        Christ 1221 he fell sick of a fever at Bologna. When he understood that he was about to
+        die, he called together his brethren and disciples, and exhorted them to innocence and
+        uprightness. Lastly, he left to them as his legacy, love, lowliness, and poverty, and as
+        the brethren were all praying, and the words were being said, Come ye to help him, ye
+        Saints of God; run ye to meet him, ye Angels, he fell asleep in the Lord. Pope Gregory
+        IX. afterwards placed his name among those of the Saints.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-lawrence.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Lawrence, Martyr (Aug 10,
+# Duplex I class) — SanctiM/08-10.txt inherits the whole day
+# (`@Sancti/08-10`) with no Nocturn 2/3 override, so this feast's own
+# proper content is sourced from the Tridentine track exactly as for
+# a pre-1955 saint (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints,
+# vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-10.txt, English/Sancti/08-10.txt.
+#
+# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 (Pope St. Leo the Great's sermon) combined into
+# one reading, one continuous excerpt.
+# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (John 12:24-26) is a bare
+# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given, so — per
+# the pre-1955 pass's convention of not transcribing bare incipits —
+# only the homily portion is authored (not marked isGospel), combined
+# with Lectio8-9 as one continuous excerpt of St. Augustine's Tract
+# 51 on John — the same homily already used for `st-ignatius-of-antioch.yml`
+# (a different day citing the same pericope; the reference engine
+# reuses this homily across multiple feasts near this text). No
+# responsory given for either reading.
+id: st-lawrence
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "Pope St. Leo the Great, Sermon for St. Lawrence's Birthday"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Cum furor gentílium potestátum in electíssima quæque Christi membra sævíret, ac
+        præcípue eos qui órdinis erant sacerdotális impéteret, in levítam Lauréntium, qui non
+        solum ministério sacramentórum sed étiam dispensatióne ecclesiásticæ substántiæ
+        præeminébat, ímpius persecútor efférbuit, dúplicem sibi prædam de uníus viri
+        comprehensióne promíttens; quem, si fecísset sacræ pecúniæ traditórem, fáceret étiam
+        veræ religiónis exsórtem. Armátur ítaque gémina face homo pecúniæ cúpidus et veritátis
+        inimícus: avarítia, ut rápiat aurum; impietáte, ut áuferat Christum. Póstulat sibi ab
+        immaculáto sacrárii prǽsule opes ecclesiásticas, quibus avidíssimus inhiábat, inférri.
+        Cui levíta castíssimus, ubi eas repósitas habéret osténdens, numerosíssimos sanctórum
+        páuperum óbtulit greges, in quorum victu atque vestítu inamissíbiles condíderat
+        facultátes, quæ tanto intégrius erant salvæ, quanto sánctius probabántur expénsæ.
+
+
+        Fremit ergo prædo frustrátus, et in ódium religiónis, quæ talem divitiárum usum
+        instituísset, ardéscens, direptiónem thesáuri potióris aggréditur, apud quem nullam
+        denariórum substántiam reperísset; ut illud depósitum, quo sacrátius erat dives,
+        auférret. Renuntiáre Christo Lauréntium jubet, et solidíssimam illam levítici ánimi
+        fortitúdinem diris parat urgére supplíciis; quorum ubi prima nil óbtinent, vehementióra
+        succédunt. Láceros artus et multa vérberum sectióne conscíssos subjécto prǽcipit igne
+        torréri; ut per cratem férream, quæ jam de fervóre contínuo vim in se habéret uréndi,
+        conversórum altérna mutatióne membrórum, fíeret cruciátus veheméntior et pœna
+        prodúctior.
+
+
+        Nihil óbtines, nihil próficis, sæva crudélitas. Subtráhitur torméntis tuis matéria
+        mortális, et, Lauréntio in cælos abeúnte, tu déficis flammis tuis. Superári cáritas
+        Christi flamma non pótuit; et ségnior fuit ignis, qui foris ussit, quam qui intus
+        accéndit. Sævísti persecútor in Mártyrem: sævísti, et auxísti palmam, dum ággeras
+        pœnam. Nam quid non ad victóris glóriam ingénium tuum réperit, quando in honórem
+        transiérunt triúmphi étiam instruménta supplícii? Gaudeámus ígitur, dilectíssimi,
+        gáudio spiritáli, et de felicíssimo íncliti viri fine gloriémur in Dómino, qui est
+        mirábilis in Sanctis suis, in quibus nobis et præsídium constítuit et exémplum; atque
+        ita per univérsum mundum claríficat glóriam suam, ut a solis ortu usque ad occásum,
+        leviticórum lúminum coruscánte fulgóre, quam clarificáta est Jerosólyma Stéphano, tam
+        illústris fíeret Roma Lauréntio.
+      en: >-
+        Then the fury of the heathen power was raging against Christ's choicest members, in
+        aiming in especial at such as were of the Priestly Order, the wicked persecutor turned
+        fiercely on the Levite Lawrence, who was remarkable, not only as a minister of the
+        Sacraments, but also as distributor of the property of the Church, promising himself a
+        double prey by the taking of this one man, namely, to make him betray the consecrated
+        treasure, and apostatise from the true faith. The wretch was thus doubly fired by his
+        greed for money and his hatred of the truth, his greed urging him to seize the gold, and
+        his wickedness to rob a believer of Christ. He demanded of the upright keeper of the
+        sacred treasury, to bring him the wealth of the Church, for which his rapacity longed.
+        But the pureminded Levite showed him where these riches were stored, by bringing before
+        him a great multitude of holy poor, by the feeding and clothing of whom he had laid up
+        all that he had, in such wise, that it could be lost no more, and was now all the safer,
+        as the way of spending it had been the holier.
+
+
+        The baffled thief chafed, and his hatred for the godliness which had appointed such an
+        use of riches, flaming forth, he attempted the robbery of a dearer treasure from him in
+        whose hands he had found no coin, even to take from him that possession wherein he had
+        holier wealth. He commanded Lawrence to deny Christ, and made ready to assail the
+        immovable firmness of the Levite's soul with appalling tortures, of which the failure of
+        the first was followed by the application of others more fearful still. When his limbs
+        had been mangled and cut by many stripes, his tormentor ordered them to be roasted over a
+        fire. He was laid on an iron grating, the bars of which by the continual fire below,
+        became themselves burning hot, so that by turning and rearranging his limbs upon them,
+        his agony was kept keener, and his suffering made to last longer.
+
+
+        Cruel savage! thou gainest nothing, and advancest nothing. That which can die passeth by
+        degrees beyond the reach of thy tortures, and when Lawrence departeth to heaven, thou and
+        thy fires are conquered. The love of Christ could not be overcome by the flames, and the
+        glow that scorched the outward man was colder than that that burnt in the inner. Thou
+        didst rage, O thou persecutor, thou didst rage against the Martyr, but by making keener
+        his agony, thou hast but made nobler his palm. What did thine imagination fail to
+        discover that could minister to the glory of him who conquered thee, since even the means
+        of his execution have turned to the honour of his triumph? Wherefore, dearly beloved
+        brethren, let us rejoice with spiritual joy, and make our boast in the Lord, Who is
+        wonderful in His Saints, and hath given unto us, in them an help and an example. Let us,
+        I say, make our boast of the extraordinary happiness of the illustrious Lawrence's end,
+        in that same Lord Who hath so glorified the name of His servant throughout the whole
+        world, that from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof, wheresoever the
+        constellation of the Levitical lights shineth, even as Jerusalem is made glorious by
+        Stephen, so Rome is made famous by Lawrence.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 3
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Tract 51 on John (on John 12:24-26)"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Ipse Dóminus Jesus erat granum mortificándum et multiplicándum; mortificándum
+        infidelitáte Judæórum, multiplicándum fide populórum. Jam vero exhórtans ad passiónis
+        suæ sectánda vestígia, Qui amat, inquit, ánimam suam, perdet eam. Quod duóbus modis
+        intéllegi potest. Qui amat, perdet; id est, si amas, perdes. Si cupis vitam tenére in
+        Christo, noli mortem timére pro Christo. Item álio modo: Qui amat ánimam suam, perdet
+        eam; noli amáre, ne perdas; noli amáre in hac vita, ne perdas in ætérna vita.
+
+
+        Hoc autem, quod postérius dixi, magis habére vidétur evangélicus sensus; séquitur
+        enim: Et qui odit ánimam suam in hoc mundo, in vitam ætérnam custódit eam. Ergo, quod
+        supra dictum est, Qui amat, subintellégitur in hoc mundo, in vitam ætérnam ipse
+        custódit eam. Magna et mira senténtia, quemádmodum sit hóminis in ánimam suam amor ut
+        péreat, ódium ne péreat. Si male amáveris, tunc odísti; si bene óderis, tunc amásti.
+        Felíces, qui odérunt custodiéndo, ne perdant amándo.
+
+
+        Sed vide ne tibi subrépat, ut teípsum velis interímere, sic intellegéndo, quod debes
+        odísse in hoc mundo ánimam tuam. Hinc enim quidam malígni atque pervérsi hómines, et in
+        seípsis crudelióres et sceleratióres homicídæ, flammis se donant, aquis se præfócant,
+        præcipítio se collídunt, et péreunt. Hoc Christus non dócuit; immo étiam diábolo
+        præcipítium suggerénti respóndit: Redi retro, sátana: scriptum est, Non tentábis
+        Dóminum, Deum tuum. Petro autem dixit, signíficans qua morte clarificatúrus erat Deum:
+        Cum esses júnior, cingébas te, et ambulábas quo volébas; cum autem senúeris, alter te
+        cinget et feret quo tu non vis. Ubi satis expréssit, non a seípso, sed ab álio debére
+        occídi, qui vestígia séquitur Christi.
+      en: >-
+        The Lord Jesus was Himself a corn of wheat that was to die and bring forth much fruit;
+        to die by the unbelief of the Jews, and to bring forth much fruit in the faith of the
+        Gentiles. He, exhorting men to follow His steps, saith: He that loveth his life shall
+        lose it. Now, these words may be understood in two ways. First: he that loveth his life
+        shall lose it, that is, If thou love life, thou wilt lose it; if thou wilt live for ever
+        in Christ, refuse not to die for Christ. Or secondly: he that loveth his life shall lose
+        it; love not then that which thou shalt lose; love not this present life, so that thou be
+        thereby in jeopardy of losing life eternal.
+
+
+        What this second interpretation is the meaning of the Gospel appeareth most probable
+        from the words which follow: And he that hateth his life in this world, shall keep it
+        unto life eternal. From which we may suppose the sense of the first words to be: He that
+        loveth his life in this world shall lose it unto life eternal. This is a great and
+        marvellous saying, showing how a man may so love life as to lose life, and so hate life
+        as to keep life. If thou love it too well, then dost thou hate it; if thou hate it with
+        an holy hatred, then dost thou love it. Blessed are they that, lest they should so love
+        it as to lose it, so hate it as to keep it.
+
+
+        Beware, lest thou take these words: He that hateth his life in this world shall keep it
+        unto life eternal as some do, for an approval of suicide. Some evil and perverse men,
+        bloody and guilty murderers of themselves, do indeed throw themselves into the fire,
+        drown themselves in water, and cast themselves down precipices, and so perish. This is
+        not the teaching of Christ, Who, when the devil would have Him cast Himself down from an
+        high place, answered: Get thee behind Me, Satan. It is written, Thou shalt not tempt the
+        Lord thy God. Who also said to Peter, signifying by what death he should glorify God:
+        When thou wast young thou girdedst thyself and walkedst whither thou wouldest; but when
+        thou shalt be old, another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
+        From which it is evident that he that would follow Christ's footsteps, must be slain, not
+        by himself, but by another.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-peter-ad-vincula.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Peter's Chains (Jul... Aug 1) —
+# SanctiM/08-01.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/08-01`) with no
+# Nocturn 2/3 override, so this feast's own proper content is sourced
+# from the Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see
+# memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-01.txt, English/Sancti/08-01.txt.
+#
+# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 (the legend of the two chains) combined into
+# one reading, one continuous account.
+# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Matt 16:13-19) is a bare
+# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given (this day's
+# own version of the same pericope already given in full for
+# `chair-of-st-peter-at-rome.yml`) — per the pre-1955 pass's
+# convention of not transcribing bare incipits, only the homily
+# portion is authored (not marked isGospel), combined with Lectio8 as
+# one continuous excerpt of St. Augustine's sermon. No responsory
+# given for either reading.
+id: st-peter-ad-vincula
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Theodósio junióre imperánte, cum Eudócia ejus uxor Jerosólymam solvéndi voti causa
+        venísset, ibi multis est affécta munéribus. Præ céteris insígne donum accépit férreæ
+        caténæ, auro gemmísque ornátæ, quam illam esse affirmábant, qua Petrus Apóstolus ab
+        Heróde vinctus fúerat. Eudócia, caténam pie veneráta, eam póstea Romam ad fíliam
+        Eudóxiam misit; quæ illam Pontífici máximo détulit. Isque vicíssim illi monstrávit
+        álteram caténam, qua, Neróne imperatóre, idem Apóstolus constríctus fúerat.
+
+
+        Cum ígitur Póntifex Románam caténam cum ea, quæ Jerosólymis alláta fúerat, contulísset,
+        factum est ut illæ inter se sic connecteréntur, ut non duæ, sed una caténa ab eódem
+        artífice confécta esse viderétur. Quo miráculo tantus honor sacris illis vínculis
+        habéri cœpit, ut proptérea hoc nómine sancti Petri ad víncula ecclésia, título
+        Eudóxiæ, dedicáta sit in Exquíliis, ejúsque memóriæ dies festus institútus Kaléndis
+        Augústi.
+
+
+        Quo ex témpore honos, qui eo die profánis Gentílium celebritátibus tríbui sólitus
+        erat, Petri vínculis habéri cœpit, quæ tacta ægros sanábant et dǽmones ejiciébant. Quo
+        in génere, anno salútis humánæ nongentésimo sexagésimo nono áccidit, ut quidam comes,
+        Ottónis imperatóris familiáris, occupátus ab immúndo spíritu, seípsum déntibus
+        dilaniáret. Quare is jussu imperatóris ad Joánnem Pontíficem dúcitur, qui ut sacra
+        caténa cómitis collum áttigit, erúmpens nefárius spíritus hóminem líberum reliquit; ac
+        deínceps in Urbe sanctórum vinculórum relígio propagáta est.
+      en: >-
+        In the reign of the Emperor Theodosius the younger, his wife went to Jerusalem in
+        fulfilment of a vow, and there was gifted with many presents. Among other things, they
+        gave her in especial an iron chain, adorned with gold and precious stones, which they
+        affirmed to be the same wherewith the Apostle Peter had been bound by King Herod.
+        Eudocia, with godly reverence, afterwards sent this chain to Rome, to her daughter
+        Eudoxia, who brought it to the Pope, and the Pope in return showed to her another chain
+        wherewith the same Apostle had been shackled under the Emperor Nero.
+
+
+        When then the Pope put together the Roman chain and that which had been brought from
+        Jerusalem, it came to pass that they got so entangled the one with the other that they
+        seemed no longer two but one chain. From this wonder these holy fetters began to receive
+        such honour, that Eudoxia's Church of St. Peter on the Esquiline Mount was dedicated
+        under the name of St. Peter in Chains, and a Feast-Day instituted upon the first day of
+        August in memory of it.
+
+
+        From that time forth the honour which before had used to be paid to the profane
+        festivity of the Gentiles began to be turned to the Chains of Peter, whose very touch
+        healed the sick, and drove out devils. Among other such cases there befell in the year of
+        man's Redemption 969, that of a certain Count, a servant of the Emperor Otho, who was
+        possessed by an unclean spirit, and tore himself with his own teeth. This man the Emperor
+        ordered to be taken to Pope John, and as soon as he had touched the Count's neck with the
+        hallowed chains, the foul spirit came out of him, and left him free. And thenceforward the
+        reverence for these holy chains greatly increased in the City.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 3
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Sermon 29 on the Saints (on Matt 16:13-19)"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Solus Petrus inter Apóstolos méruit audíre: Amen dico tibi, quia tu es Petrus, et super
+        hanc petram ædificábo Ecclésiam meam; dignus certe, qui ædificándis in domo Dei
+        pópulis lapis esset ad fundaméntum, colúmna ad sustentáculum, clavis ad regnum. De hoc
+        ait sermo divínus: Et ponébant, inquit, infírmos suos, ut umbra saltem transeúntis
+        Petri obumbráret eos. Si tunc opem ferre póterat umbra córporis, quanto magis nunc
+        plenitúdo virtútis? si tunc supplicántibus próderat aura quædam pertranseúntis, quanto
+        magis grátia nunc permanéntis? Mérito per omnes Christi ecclésias auro pretiósius
+        habétur ferrum illud pœnálium vinculórum.
+
+
+        Si tam medicábilis fuit obumbrátio visitántis, quanto magis caténa vinciéntis? Si
+        inánis quædam spécies vácuæ imáginis habére pótuit in se vim salútis, quanto plus de
+        córpore meruérunt attráhere salubritátis, férreo póndere sacris impréssa membris,
+        víncula passiónis? Si ad præsídia supplicántium tam potens fuit ante martýrium, quanto
+        magis éfficax post triúmphum? Felíces illi nexus, qui, de mánicis et compédibus in
+        corónam mutándi, Apóstolum contingéntes, Mártyrem reddidérunt! Felícia víncula, quæ
+        reum suum usque ad Christi crucem, non tam condemnatúra quam consecratúra, misérunt!
+      en: >-
+        Peter was the only one of the Apostles who was worthy to hear the words: Amen, I say
+        unto thee that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My Church. Worthy indeed
+        must he be, who, when the nations are to be built up into a Temple of God, is chosen as
+        the ground-stone whereon the building is to stand, the pillar whereby it is to be held
+        up, and the key wherethrough entrance is to be made into the kingdom. Concerning him the
+        Word of God saith: That they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on
+        beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some
+        of them. If the shadow of his body then could give help, how much more shall the fulness
+        of his strength give help now. If the very air, as he passed by, was then profitable to
+        such as besought him, how much more shall his favour profit where now he abideth. It is
+        with reason that, throughout all the Churches of Christ, the iron chains wherewith he was
+        afflicted are reckoned more precious than gold.
+
+
+        If his shadow as a visitor was so healthful, what is his chain now that he bindeth and
+        looseth. If his empty image in the air had healing power, how much power must have been
+        contracted from his body by those chains, whose iron weight sank into his holy limbs
+        during his suffering. If, before he testified, he was so mighty to aid them that called
+        upon him, how much mightier is he now since his victory. Blessed were the links, doomed
+        to be changed from fetters and shackles, into a crown, which by touching the Apostle,
+        made him a Martyr. Blessed were the chains, whose prisoner left them for the Cross of
+        Christ, and which brought him thither, not as the instruments of condemnation, but of
+        sanctification.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-sabina.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Sabina, Martyr (Aug 29, sharing the
+# date with the Decollation of St. John the Baptist — see
+# decollation-of-st-john-baptist.yml). No genuine SanctiM match: the
+# only SanctiM files for this date base `@Sancti/08-29` (the
+# Decollation, not Sabina) — 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/08-29cc.txt, English/Sancti/08-29cc.txt.
+# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no
+# responsory given in the source.
+id: st-sabina
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Sabina, mulier Romana, Valentini viri claríssimi uxor, a Seráphia vírgine christianæ
+        fidei præceptis instituta, post sanctæ Vírginis martyrium, collectas ejus relíquias
+        piis exsequiis sepelívit. Quæ propter eam causam paulo post, Hadriáno imperatóre,
+        comprehensa, Elpidio júdici sistitur. Cui is: Tu ne illa Sabina et génere et matrimonio
+        nobilíssima? At illa, Sum, inquit: sed Dómino meo Jesu Christo grátias ago, qui me,
+        intercessióne Seráphiæ famulæ suæ, e dæmonum potestate liberávit. Quam varie tentatam
+        ut propositum mutaret, cum a fidei constántia movére non posset, præfectus,
+        pronuntiáta senténtia quod deos contemneret, cápitis damnávit. Ejus corpus a
+        Christiánis in eodem sepúlcro cónditum est, in quo ipsa magistram fidei suæ Seráphiam
+        posúerat.
+      en: >-
+        Sabina was a Roman lady, the wife of a distinguished nobleman named Valentine. The
+        Christian faith was taught to her by a maiden named Seraphia. After the martyrdom of
+        this holy virgin, Sabina gathered together her reliques, and buried them with godly
+        service. For this cause she was in a little while arrested, under the Emperor Hadrian,
+        and brought before the Judge Elpidius. Art thou, said he, the same Sabina who is so
+        distinguished for her blood and for her marriage? She answered: I am, but I give thanks
+        to my Lord Jesus Christ for having delivered me through the prayers of His hand-maiden
+        Seraphia from the troubling of devils. Diverse attempts were made to make her change her
+        mind, but when they proved in vain the Praefect passed sentence of death upon her for
+        despising the gods. The Christians laid her body in the same grave in which she had
+        herself laid that of Seraphia, her teacher in the faith.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-stephen-i.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Stephen I, Pope, Martyr (Aug 2). No
+# genuine SanctiM match: the correct Tridentine file is the suffixed
+# `Sancti/08-02o.txt` (the plain `Sancti/08-02.txt` is St. Alphonsus
+# Liguori instead, a later saint occupying the general calendar's own
+# Aug 2 slot), and the only SanctiM files for this date bases
+# `@Sancti/08-02` — same "don't trust the plain file" wrinkle as the
+# pre-1955 pass (memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints); a missed
+# pre-1955-pool candidate rather than a genuine SanctiM case (see
+# memory vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-02o.txt, English/Sancti/08-02o.txt.
+# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no
+# responsory given in the source.
+id: st-stephen-i
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Stephanus Romanus pontificátum gessit Valeriáno et Gallieno imperatóribus. Instituit
+        ut sacerdótes et diáconi nusquam sacris vestibus, nisi in ecclésia, uteréntur.
+        Baptizatos ab hæreticis, íterum baptizari vetuit, rescribens sancto Cypriáno verbis
+        illis: Nihil innovétur, nisi quod traditum est. Multos étiam ad Christum convértit, in
+        iis Olympium tribunum cum uxore Exsuperia et fílio Theodúlo, item Nemesium tribunum
+        cum tota família, óculis Lucillæ ejus fíliæ restitútis: qui omnes Jesu Christi
+        Mártyres fuérunt. Sed, vehementius jam ingravescénte persecutióne imperatórum,
+        Stephanus, convocato clero, ad martyrium suos hortabátur, in cryptisque Mártyrum
+        assidue Missas et concília celebrábat. Qui, cum aliquándo raptus esset ab infidelibus
+        ad templum Martis ut ei sacrificaret, líbere negávit se dæmónibus eum honórem velle
+        tribúere, qui uni Deo deberétur. Quibus in verbis Martis statua terræmotu cóncidit
+        templumque contrémuit. Quare ómnibus aufugiéntibus qui Stephanum tenébant, Pontifex ad
+        suos revértitur in cœmetérium Lucinæ; quos, divinis præceptis ínstruens, sacraménto
+        corporis Christi communicávit; ibique, dum Missárum solemnia pérficit; adveniéntibus
+        íterum imperatórum satellítibus, ei in sua sede caput abscínditur. Corpus, cum eadem
+        sede conspersa Mártyris sánguine, a clericis sepúltum est in cœmeterio Callísti, quarto
+        Nonas Augusti. Vixit in pontificatu annos tres, menses tres, dies viginti duos. Habuit
+        ordinatiónes duas mense Decembri, quibus creávit presbyteros sex, diaconos quinque,
+        episcopos tres.
+      en: >-
+        This Stephen was a Roman, and exercised the Popedom in the reign of the Emperors
+        Valerian and Gallienus. It was his ordinance which forbade Priests and Deacons ever to
+        use their hallowed garments except in the Church. He forbade a re-baptism of such as had
+        been baptized by heretics, writing to St. Cyprian in these words: Let us have no
+        innovations, but only what hath been handed down unto us. He turned many to Christ, and,
+        among them, the Tribune Olympius, with his wife Exuperia, and his son Theodulus, and the
+        Tribune Nemesius, to whose blind daughter he had given sight, along with all his
+        household. All these were martyrs for Jesus Christ. When the persecution of the
+        Emperors was waxing dreader and more dread, Stephen gathered together the clergy, and
+        exhorted them to be brave in lifting up their testimony, and himself celebrated Masses
+        and Councils in the Catacombs. He was caught by some unbelievers, and haled to the temple
+        of Mars, to do sacrifice to that idol, but he boldly said he would never pay to devils an
+        honour which it behoved to give to God only. As he spake these words an earthquake made
+        the image of Mars to fall down, and all the temple to tremble. All they that held
+        Stephen fled, and the Pope went back to his own people in the cemetery of Lucina. He
+        there delivered to them a discourse full of the Word of God, and gave them the Communion
+        of the Sacrament of the Body of Christ. While he was finishing the Mass, the soldiers of
+        the Emperor again brake in upon them, and his head was cut off as he sat in his chair.
+        The reliques of the Martyr, along with the chair stained with his blood, were buried by
+        the clergy in the cemetery of Callistus, upon the 2nd day of August. He lived as Pope
+        three years, three months, and twenty two days. He held two ordinations in the month of
+        December, and in them ordained six Priests, five Deacons, and three Bishops.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }