Add May sanctoral content: 10 saints plus the Queenship of the BVM
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Continues the full-year sanctoral import (see TODO.md/memory for Jan-Apr):
St. Pius V, St. Antoninus, St. Robert Bellarmine, St. John Baptist de la
Salle, St. Paschal Baylon, St. Venantius, St. Bernardine of Siena, St. John
Baptist de Rossi, St. Augustine of Canterbury, St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi,
and the Queenship of the BVM (May 31, Duplex II Classis, instituted by Pius
XII's 1954 "Ad cæli Reginam" — full proper content, not a Common fallback).

Adding the Queenship to May 31 surfaces a real collision with Trinity
Sunday in years where Trinity falls on May 31 (2026): since this app
models Trinitytide Sundays as plain ordinary-sunday with no special
first-class standing, a Duplex+ sanctoral feast wins outright there per
the existing precedence rule. Updated the two tests pinned to that date
accordingly, with a third moved to a Trinity Sunday date (2023-06-04)
free of any sanctoral entry to keep testing the octave-vs-anchor-day
interaction in isolation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-31.txt` -- "Beatæ Mariæ
# Virginis Reginæ;;Duplex II classis;;5.1;;ex C11" (Common of Feasts
# of the BVM). Instituted 1954 by Pius XII's encyclical "Ad cæli
# Reginam" -- her own file has full, real, proper content throughout:
# own [Oratio], own [Ant 1] (not a Common substitution, unlike
# presentation-of-the-bvm.yml), and a full nine-lesson Matins office of
# her own. Nocturn 1 (Sir 24, plain scripture) isn't modeled, per this
# app's established convention (getNocturnReadings only ever carries
# Nocturn 2/3 across the whole calendar). Nocturn 2 (Lectio4-6): a
# three-part patristic/magisterial anthology (Peter Canisius,
# Athanasius via Canisius, Pius XII's "Ad cæli Reginam" itself) rather
# than one continuous narrative -- still combined into a single
# reading, matching how this app already treats other multi-source
# Nocturn 2 content. Nocturn 3: her own Gospel citation ends "Et
# réliqua"/"And so on" with no full pericope given -- per the
# bare-incipit convention, only the homily (Lectio7-9, St. Bonaventure)
# is authored, isGospel: false, no citation field.
id: queenship-of-the-bvm
name: "The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary"
rank: duplex-2-classis
common: common-of-the-bvm
propers: "queenship-of-the-bvm"
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-10.txt` -- "Duplex;;3;;vide
# C4" (Common of a Confessor Bishop). Own real proper [Oratio]. No
# [Ant 1] of his own -- benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon fall back to
# the plain Common of a Confessor Bishop, matching st-ambrose.yml.
id: st-antoninus
name: "St. Antoninus, Bishop and Confessor"
rank: duplex
common: common-of-a-confessor-bishop
propers: "st-antoninus"
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-confessor-bishop
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-confessor-bishop
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-28.txt` -- "Duplex;;3;;vide
# C4-1" (a variant Oratio of the Common of a Confessor Bishop, C4 --
# not a distinct Common category, just an alternate collect template
# within it; this saint's own file supplies a real proper [Oratio], so
# neither C4 nor C4-1's template collect is actually used). Own
# Nocturn 2-3 content (Nocturn 3 is Pope St. Gregory the Great's own
# homily on Luke 10:1-9, not a cross-reference). No [Ant 1] of his own
# -- benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon fall back to the plain Common of
# a Confessor Bishop. Officium name also carries a monastic variant
# ("sed rubrica monastica ... O. N.") -- ignored per the untagged-block
# convention, same as every other saint this pass.
id: st-augustine-of-canterbury
name: "St. Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop and Confessor"
rank: duplex
common: common-of-a-confessor-bishop
propers: "st-augustine-of-canterbury"
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-confessor-bishop
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-confessor-bishop
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-20.txt` -- "Semiduplex;;2.2;;
# vide C5" (Common of a Confessor Not a Bishop). Own real proper
# [Oratio]. No [Ant 1] of his own -- benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon
# fall back to the plain Common of a Confessor. No Lectio7-9 in his
# own file -- defers to the Common's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed
# here.
id: st-bernardine-of-siena
name: "St. Bernardine of Siena, Confessor"
rank: semiduplex
common: common-of-a-confessor
propers: "st-bernardine-of-siena"
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-confessor
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-confessor
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-15.txt` -- "Duplex;;3;;vide
# C5" (Common of a Confessor Not a Bishop). Own real proper [Oratio]
# and own Nocturn 2-3 content. No [Ant 1] of his own --
# benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon fall back to the plain Common of a
# Confessor.
id: st-john-baptist-de-la-salle
name: "St. John Baptist de la Salle, Confessor"
rank: duplex
common: common-of-a-confessor
propers: "st-john-baptist-de-la-salle"
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-confessor
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-confessor
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-23.txt` -- "Duplex;;3;;vide
# C5" (Common of a Confessor Not a Bishop). Own real proper [Oratio].
# No [Ant 1] of his own -- benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon fall back
# to the plain Common of a Confessor. No Lectio7-9/Lectio94 in his own
# file at all (only Lectio4-6) -- defers to the Common's own Nocturn
# 3, not transcribed here.
id: st-john-baptist-de-rossi
name: "St. John Baptist de Rossi, Confessor"
rank: duplex
common: common-of-a-confessor
propers: "st-john-baptist-de-rossi"
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-confessor
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-confessor
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-29.txt` -- "Semiduplex;;2.2;;
# vide C6a" (Common of Virgins only). Own real proper [Oratio]. No
# [Ant 1] of her own -- benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon fall back to
# the plain Common of a Virgin. No Lectio7-9 in her own file -- defers
# to the Common's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed here. Distinct saint
# from st-mary-magdalene.yml (the Gospel Magdalene) -- different id,
# no collision.
id: st-mary-magdalene-de-pazzi
name: "St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, Virgin"
rank: semiduplex
common: common-of-a-virgin
propers: "st-mary-magdalene-de-pazzi"
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-virgin
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-virgin
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-17.txt` -- "Duplex;;3;;vide
# C5" (Common of a Confessor Not a Bishop). Own real proper [Oratio].
# No [Ant 1] of his own -- benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon fall back
# to the plain Common of a Confessor. No Lectio7-9 in his own file --
# defers to the Common's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed here.
id: st-paschal-baylon
name: "St. Paschal Baylon, Confessor"
rank: duplex
common: common-of-a-confessor
propers: "st-paschal-baylon"
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-confessor
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-confessor
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-05.txt` -- "Duplex;;3;;vide
# C4b" (Commune Summorum Pontificum Confessorum -- Common of Confessor
# Popes). Own real proper [Oratio]. No untagged [Ant 1] of his own (a
# rubrica-tagged one cross-references `@Commune/C4` -- ignored per the
# untagged-block convention, but used here as the best available
# signal for benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon, matching the plain
# Common of a Confessor Bishop rather than inventing an unbuilt
# Pope-Confessor Benedictus template). Nocturn 3 in C4b itself is a
# cross-reference to `@Sancti/03-12` (St. Gregory the Great), not this
# saint's own content -- not transcribed, per the bare-cross-reference
# convention.
id: st-pius-v
name: "St. Pius V, Pope and Confessor"
rank: duplex
common: common-of-a-confessor-pope
propers: "st-pius-v"
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-confessor-bishop
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-confessor-bishop
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-13.txt` -- "Duplex;;3;;vide
# C4a" (Commune Doctoris non Pontificis). Own real proper [Oratio] and
# own Nocturn 2-3 content (Nocturn 3 is his own homily, not a
# cross-reference). No [Ant 1] of his own; benedictusCommon points at
# the already-authored `benedictus-antiphon-common-of-a-confessor-
# bishop.yml` directly, same reasoning as st-john-damascene.yml/
# st-peter-canisius.yml (C4a's own [Ant 1] is itself a cross-reference
# to C4).
id: st-robert-bellarmine
name: "St. Robert Bellarmine, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of the Church"
rank: duplex
common: common-of-a-confessor-doctor
propers: "st-robert-bellarmine"
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-confessor-bishop
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-confessor-bishop
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-18.txt` -- "Duplex;;3;;vide
# C2a" (Common of a Martyr). Own real proper [Oratio]. No [Ant 1] of
# his own -- benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon fall back to the plain
# Common of a Martyr, matching st-fidelis-of-sigmaringen.yml. No
# Lectio7-9 in his own file -- defers to the Common's own Nocturn 3,
# not transcribed here. Own proper Matins hymns (Hymnus Vespera/
# Matutinum/Laudes) exist in the source but aren't modeled -- this
# app's hour builders don't carry per-saint hymn text.
id: st-venantius
name: "St. Venantius, Martyr"
rank: duplex
common: common-of-a-martyr
propers: "st-venantius"
benedictusCommon: common-of-a-martyr
minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-martyr
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"05-02": [st-athanasius]
"05-03": [finding-of-the-holy-cross, ss-alexander-eventius-theodulus-and-juvenal]
"05-04": [st-monica]
"05-05": [st-pius-v]
"05-06": [st-john-before-the-latin-gate]
"05-07": [st-stanislaus]
"05-08": [apparition-of-st-michael]
"05-09": [st-gregory-nazianzen]
"05-10": [st-antoninus]
"05-12": [ss-nereus-achilleus-domitilla-and-pancras]
"05-13": [st-robert-bellarmine]
"05-14": [st-boniface]
"05-15": [st-john-baptist-de-la-salle]
"05-16": [st-ubald]
"05-17": [st-paschal-baylon]
"05-18": [st-venantius]
"05-19": [st-peter-celestine, st-pudentiana]
"05-20": [st-bernardine-of-siena]
"05-22": [st-romanus-abbot]
"05-23": [st-john-baptist-de-rossi]
"05-25": [st-urban-i]
"05-26": [st-eleutherius]
"05-27": [st-john-i]
"05-28": [st-augustine-of-canterbury]
"05-29": [st-mary-magdalene-de-pazzi]
"05-30": [st-felix-i]
"05-31": [queenship-of-the-bvm]
# June — 6/12 of the pre-1955 pull. No stubs this month — every
# candidate resolved to a real, independently-winnable saint (even the
# two normally blocked by the generic Saturday-of-Mary votive). 06-27
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-31.txt's own
# [Ant 1] and its English counterpart -- a real, proper antiphon of
# this feast, not a Common substitution.
id: queenship-of-the-bvm-antiphon
text:
la: "Beáta quæ credidísti, * quæ dicta sunt tibi a Dómino: cum Christo regnas in ætérnum. (Allelúja.)"
en: "Blessed thou who didst believe, * what was spoken to thee by the Lord: with Christ thou reignest for ever. (Alleluia.)"
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-31.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: queenship-of-the-bvm-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Concéde nobis, quǽsumus, Dómine: ut, qui solemnitátem beatæ Maríæ Vírginis Regínæ
nostræ celebrámus; ejus muníti præsídio, pacem in præsénti et glóriam in futúro
cónsequi mereámur.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
Grant, O Lord, we beseech Thee, to those who are celebrating this solemnity of the
Blessed Virgin Mary our Queen: that safe in her protection we may deserve to enjoy
present peace and future glory.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-10.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-antoninus-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Sancti Antoníni, Dómine, Confessóris tui atque Pontíficis méritis adjuvémur: ut,
sicut te in illo mirábilem prædicámus, ita in nos misericórdem fuísse gloriémur.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
Help us, O Lord, we beseech thee, for the sake of thine holy Bishop and Confessor
Antonine, and so show thyself merciful in us, Who didst show thyself wondrous in
him.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-28.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-augustine-of-canterbury-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Deus, qui Anglórum gentes, prædicatióne et miráculis beáti Augustíni Confessóris tui
atque Pontíficis, veræ fídei luce illustráre dignátus es: concéde; ut, ipso
interveniénte, errántium corda ad veritátis tuæ rédeant unitátem, et nos in tua
simus voluntáte concórdes.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, Who graciously enlightened the English peoples with the light of the true
faith by the preaching and miracles of blessed Augustine, thy Confessor and Bishop,
grant, through his intercession, that the hearts of those who have strayed may
return to the unity of the true faith and that we may be in harmony with thy will.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-20.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart. Doxology "$Qui vivis" spelled
# out per the convention in st-bibiana-collect.yml.
id: st-bernardine-of-siena-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Dómine Jesu, qui beáto Bernardíno Confessóri tuo exímium sancti nóminis tui amórem
tribuísti: ejus, quǽsumus, méritis et intercessióne, spíritum nobis tuæ dilectiónis
benígnus infúnde.
Qui vivis et regnas cum Deo Patre, in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula
sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O Lord Jesus, Which didst give unto thy blessed Confessor Bernardine the grace to
love thy Holy Name exceeding well, be entreated, we beseech thee, for his sake and
by his prayers, and mercifully pour into our hearts also the Spirit of thy love.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God,
world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-15.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-john-baptist-de-la-salle-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Deus, qui, ad christiánam páuperum eruditiónem et ad juvéntam in via veritátis
firmándam, sanctum Joánnem Baptístam Confessórem excitásti, et novam per eum in
Ecclésia famíliam collegísti: concéde propítius; ut ejus intercessióne et exémplo,
stúdio glóriæ tuæ in animárum salúte fervéntes, ejus in cælis corónæ partícipes
fíeri valeámus.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, who didst raise up the Confessor, St. John Baptist, to promote the Christian
education of the poor and to strengthen the young in the way of truth, and, through
him, didst gather together a new family within thy Church, mercifully grant through
his intercession and example, that we may burn with zeal for thy glory, through the
salvation of souls, and may share his crown in heaven.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-23.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-john-baptist-de-rossi-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Deus, qui sanctum Joánnem Baptistam Confessórem tuum in evangelizandis pauperibus
caritate et patientia decorásti: concede quǽsumus; ut cujus pia merita veneramur,
virtutum quoque imitemur exempla.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, Who didst beautify Thine holy Confessor John Baptist with the graces of love
and longsuffering in preaching Thy Gospel unto the poor, grant, we beseech Thee,
unto us who honour his godly and worthy life the grace to follow after the example
of his good works.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-29.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-mary-magdalene-de-pazzi-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Deus, virginitátis amátor, qui beátam Maríam Magdalénam Vírginem, tuo amóre
succénsam, cæléstibus donis decorásti: da; ut, quam festíva celebritáte
venerámur, puritáte et caritáte imitémur.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, lover of chastity, Who endowed with heavenly gifts blessed Mary Magdalen, a
virgin on fire with love for You, grant that we who keep this feast-day in her
honor may imitate her by purity and love.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-17.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart. Doxology "$Qui vivis" spelled
# out per the convention in st-bibiana-collect.yml.
id: st-paschal-baylon-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Deus, qui beátum Paschálem Confessórem tuum mirífica erga Córporis et Sánguinis tui
sacra mystéria dilectióne decorásti: concéde propítius; ut, quam ille ex hoc divíno
convívio spíritus percépit pinguédinem, eándem et nos percípere mereámur.
Qui vivis et regnas cum Deo Patre, in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula
sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, Who endowed blessed Paschal, thy Confessor, with a wondrous love for the
sacred mysteries of thy Body and Blood, mercifully grant that we may be found
worthy to share in the same spiritual abundance he received in this divine banquet.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God,
world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-05.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-pius-v-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Deus, qui, ad conteréndos Ecclésiæ tuæ hostes et ad divínum cultum reparándum,
beátum Pium Pontíficem Máximum elígere dignátus es: fac nos ipsíus deféndi
præsídiis et ita tuis inhærére obséquiis; ut, ómnium hóstium superátis insídiis,
perpétua pace lætémur.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, Who when Thou wast pleased to break the teeth of them that hate thy Church,
and to restore again the solemn worship of thyself, didst choose the blessed Pope
Pius to work for thee in that matter, grant that he may still be a tower of strength
for us. Grant that we also may be more than conquerors over all that make war upon
our souls, and in the end may enter into perfect peace in thy presence.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
status:
la: verified
en: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-13.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-robert-bellarmine-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Deus, qui ad errórum insídias repelléndas et apostólicæ Sedis jura propugnánda,
beátum Robértum Pontíficem tuum atque Doctórem mira eruditióne et virtúte
decorásti: ejus méritis et intercessióne concéde; ut nos in veritátis amóre
crescámus et errántium corda ad Ecclésiæ tuæ rédeant unitátem.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, who didst endow blessed Robert, thy bishop and doctor, with wondrous learning
and strength to foil the wiles of error and to defend the rights of the Holy See;
grant through his merits and intercession that we may grow in the love of truth, and
that the hearts of those gone astray may return to the unity of the Church.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-18.txt's own
# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
id: st-venantius-collect
text:
la: |
Orémus.
Deus, qui hunc diem beáti Venántii Mártyris tui triúmpho consecrásti: exáudi preces
pópuli tui et præsta: ut, qui ejus mérita venerámur, fídei constántiam imitémur.
Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
en: |
Let us pray.
O God, in Whose sight this day is holy, because thy blessed Martyr Venantius did
become more than conqueror thereon, graciously hear the prayers of thy people, and
grant that all who reverence his right worthy loyalty to thee, may be like him in
godly endurance.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin
# Mary (May 31). Sourced directly from
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-31.txt, English/Sancti/05-31.txt.
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6, a three-part anthology (St. Peter Canisius on
# Mary as Queen; a continuation quoting St. Athanasius; an excerpt from
# Pius XII's own encyclical "Ad cæli Reginam," 1954, which instituted
# this feast) -- combined into one reading. Nocturn 3: her own Gospel
# citation ends "Et réliqua"/"And so on" with no full pericope given --
# per the bare-incipit convention, only the homily (Lectio7-9, St.
# Bonaventure) is authored, isGospel: false, no citation field.
id: queenship-of-the-bvm
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
source: >-
St. Peter Canisius, De Maria Deipara Virgine incomparabili, lib. 15, c. 13;
Pope Pius XII, Ad cæli Reginam (11 October 1954)
text:
la: >-
Cur beatíssimam Vírginem Maríam Regínæ nómine, Damascénum, Athanásium aliósque
secúti, non compellémus, cujus et pater David rex ínclitus, et fílius Rex regum
Dominúsque dominántium sine fine ímperans, laudem in Scriptúris præstantíssimam
tenent? Regína est ínsuper, si cum illis conferátur, quibus, véluti régibus,
cæléste regnum cum Christo, Rege summo, cóntigit, útpote illíus coherédibus, et
in eódem véluti throno, ut Scriptúra lóquitur, cum illo collocátis. Regína est
étiam nulli electórum secúnda, sed simul Angelis et homínibus tanto præláta
dígnius, quo nihil illa sublímius ac sánctius esse potest, quæ sola cum Deo
Patre Fílium habet commúnem, et quæ supra se Deum et Christum tantum, infra se
vero réliqua videt ómnia.
Magnus Athanásius perspícue dixit: Maríam non modo Deíparam, sed étiam Regínam
et Dóminam próprie veréque censéri, quandóquidem Christus ex ipsa matre Vírgine
natus, Deus et Dominus idémque Rex máneat. De hac ígitur Regína dictum illud
Psalmógraphi interpretátur: Adstitit Regína a dextris tuis in vestítu deauráto.
Non ergo solum cæli, sed et cælórum Regína recte dicitur María, útpote mater
Regis Angelórum, Regísque cælórum et amíca et sponsa. A te vero, augustíssima
Regína, eadémque fidíssima Mater María, quam sine fructu pie nullus implórat,
et cui mortáles omnes beneficiórum memória sempitérna devíncti sunt, étiam
atque étiam reverénter oro et óbsecro, ut hoc qualecúmque observántiæ erga te
meæ testimónium ratum et gratum habére velis, utque obláti múneris exiguitátem
studiósa offeréntis voluntáte metíri ac tuo præpoténti Fílio comprobáre
dignéris.
E Christiánæ vetustátis monuméntis, e litúrgicis précibus, ex índito christiáno
pópulo religiónis sensu, ex opéribus arte conféctis, úndique collégimus voces
quæ ásserunt Deíparam Vírginem regáli dignitáte præstáre; ratiónes étiam, quas
sancta theología ex divínæ fídei thesáuro deducéndo ástruit, eándem veritátem
prorsus confirmáre argúimus. Tot ex allátis testimóniis quasi latíssime
résonans concéntus effícitur, qui extóllit régii honóris præcélsum fastígium
Dei hominúmque Matris, cui cuncta creáta subsunt, quæ est: « exaltáta super
choros Angelórum ad cæléstia regna ». Cum vero, matúro ponderatóque consílio,
persuásum Nobis habeámus magna oritúra esse Ecclésiæ emoluménta, si quasi in
suo candelábro rutilántior lucérna pósita, illa sólide probáta véritas
maniféstior ómnibus refúlgeat, Apostólica Nostra Potestáte decérnimus et
institúimus festum Maríæ Regínæ, quod toto terrárum orbe quotánnis die
trigésimo primo mensis maji est celebrándum.
en: >-
If we follow St. John Damascene, St. Athanasius and others, are we not forced
to call Mary Queen, since her father David receiveth the highest praise in
Scripture as a renowned king, and her son as King of kings and Lord of lords,
reigning forever? She is Queen, moreover, when compared with the Saints who
reign like kings in the heavenly kingdom, co-heirs with Christ, the great King,
placed on the same throne with him, as the Scripture saith. And as Queen she is
second to none of the elect, but in dignity is raised so high above both
Angels and men that nothing can be higher or holier than she, who alone hath
the same Son as God the Father, and who seeth above her only God and Christ,
and below her creatures other than herself.
The great Athanasius said clearly: Mary is not only the Mother of God, but also
can be properly and truly called Queen and Lady, since in fact the Christ who
was born of the Virgin Mother is God and Lord and also King. It is to this
Queen, therefore, that the Psalmist's words are applied: The Queen taketh her
place at thy right hand in garments of gold. Thus Mary is rightly called Queen,
not only of heaven, but also of the heavens, as the Mother of the King of
Angels, and as the Bride and beloved of the King of the heavens. O Mary, most
august Queen and most faithful Mother, to whom no one prayeth in vain who
prayeth devoutly, and to whom all mortal men are bound by the enduring memory
of so many benefits, again and again reverently I beseech thee to accept and be
pleased with every evidence of my devotion to thee, to value the poor gift I
offer according to the zeal with which it is offered, and to recommend it to
thine all-powerful Son.
From the documents of ancient Christianity, from the prayers of the liturgy,
from the innate religious sense of the Christian people, from works of art,
from all sides we gather witnesses which assert that the Virgin Mother of God
excelleth in queenly dignity. And we have set forth the reasons which sacred
theology deduces from the treasury of divine faith to confirm the same truth.
All these witnesses form a sort of chorus, proclaiming far and wide the supreme
queenly honour granted to the Mother of God and man, who is above all created
things and exalted over the choirs of Angels to reign in heaven. Thus it is
that after mature and thoughtful consideration we have been persuaded that
great benefits would flow to the Church if, like a light that illumines more
brightly when placed in its stand, this solidly proved truth were to shine out
more clearly to all, and so, by Our Apostolic Authority, we decree and
institute the feast of Mary, Queen, which is to be celebrated every year on the
thirty-first day of May throughout the world.
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- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "St. Bonaventure, Sermon on the Royal Dignity of the Blessed Virgin Mary"
text:
la: >-
Beáta María Virgo, summi Regis mater est per generósam conceptiónem, secúndum
quod dícitur in verbo sibi dicto ab Angelo: Ecce inquit, concípies et páries
fílium; et póstea: Dabit ei Dóminus sedem David patris ejus, et regnábit in
domo Jacob in ætérnum, et regni ejus non erit finis. Ac si apérte dicat:
Concípies et páries fílium Regem, in regáli sólio æternáliter residéntem, ac
per hoc tamquam Mater Regis regnábis, et ut Regína in regáli sólio residébis.
Si enim decet filium honórem matri dare, decet ut ei commúnicet thronum
regálem; unde Virgo María, quia concépit eum, qui habet in fémore scriptum:
Rex regum et Dóminus dominántium, statim ex quo concépit Fílium Dei, Regína
fuit, non solum terræ, sed étiam cæli, quod designátum est in Apocalýpsi ubi
dícitur: Signum magnum appáruit in cælo: múlier amícta sole, et luna sub
pédibus ejus, et in cápite ejus coróna stellárum duódecim.
María Regína est præclaríssima quantum ad glóriam, quod bene desígnat Prophéta
in psalmo qui speciáliter est de Christo et Vírgine María, ubi primo dícitur de
Christo: Sedes tua, Deus, in sǽculum sǽculi, et paulo post de Vírgine:
Adstitit regína a dextris tuis, hoc est in potióribus bonis, quod quidem
dictum est quantum ad glóriam mentis. Séquitur: In vestítu deauráto, in quo
exprímitur vestítus gloriósæ immortalitátis, quem décuit habére Vírginem in
sua Assumptióne. Absit enim ut vestiméntum illud quo opértus est Christus, quod
étiam fuit perfécte sanctificátum in terra per Verbum incarnátum, fiat cibus
vérmium. Sicut décuit Christum dare grátiam Matri suæ pleníssimam in sua
Conceptióne, sic décuit tribúere pleníssimam glóriam in ipsíus Matris
Assumptióne. Et ídeo tenéndum est quod Virgo, gloriósa in ánima et córpore,
sédeat juxta Fílium.
María Regína est et dispensátrix grátiæ, quod designátum fuit in libro Esther,
ubi dícitur: Parvus fons qui crevit in flúvium, et in lucem et solem convérsus
est. Virgo Maria sub figura Esther comparátur diffusióni fontis et lúminis,
propter diffusiónem grátiæ quantum ad dúplicem usum, actiónis licet et
contemplatiónis. Grátia enim Dei, quæ est medicatíva géneris humáni, per ipsam
ad nos descéndit quasi per aquædúctum, quia ad ipsam Vírginem pértinet
dispensátio grátiæ non per modum princípii, sed per modum mériti. Mérito ígitur
Virgo María est excellentíssima Regína in comparatiónem ad plebem, cum
ímpetrat véniam, súperat pugnam, et distríbuit grátiam, et consequénter
perdúcit ad glóriam.
en: >-
The Blessed Virgin Mary is the Mother of the great King by reason of a noble
kind of conception, according to the message given her by the Angel. Behold, he
said, thou shalt conceive and shalt bring forth a son; and again, the Lord God
will give him the throne of David his father, and he shall be king over the
house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end. This is as if
to say in so many words, Thou wilt conceive and bear a son who is King,
eternally reigning on the royal throne, and as Queen thou wilt be seated on the
royal throne. For if it becometh a son to give honour to his mother, it is also
fitting that he share his royal throne with her; and so the Virgin Mary,
because she conceived him on whose thigh was written, King of kings and Lord of
lords, was Queen not only of earth but also of heaven as soon as she conceived
the Son of God. This is indicated in the Apocalypse where it saith: A great
sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon was under
her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.
Mary the Queen outshineth all others in glory, as the Prophet clearly showeth
in the Psalm which particularly concerns Christ and the Virgin Mary. It first
saith of Christ: Thy throne, O God, standeth forever and ever, and shortly
thereafter of the Virgin: The Queen taketh her place at thy right hand, that
is, in the position of highest blessedness, for it referreth to glory of soul.
It continueth: In garments of gold, by which is meant the clothing of glorious
immortality which was proper to the Virgin in her Assumption. For it could not
be that the garment which clothed Christ, the garment completely sanctified on
earth by the incarnate Word, should be the food of worms. As it was fitting for
Christ to grant the fullness of grace to his Mother at her Conception, so was
it fitting that he grant her the fullness of glory at her Assumption. And so we
are to hold that the Virgin, glorious in soul and body, is enthroned next to
her Son.
Mary the Queen is also the distributrix of grace. This is indicated in the book
of Esther, where it is said: The little spring which grew into a river and was
turned into a light and into the sun. The Virgin Mary, under the type of
Esther, is compared to the outpouring of a spring and of light, because of the
diffusion of grace for two uses, that is, for action and for contemplation. For
the grace of God, which is a healing for the human race, descendeth to us
through her as if through an aqueduct, since the dispensing of grace is
attributed to the Virgin not as to its beginning, but because of her position
through merit. By position the Virgin Mary is a most excellent Queen towards
her people: she obtaineth forgiveness, overcometh strife, distributeth grace,
and thereby she leadeth them to glory.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Antoninus, Bishop and Confessor
# (May 10). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-10.txt,
# English/Sancti/05-10.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in his own file (his `[Rule]` is `vide
# C4`) -- defers to the Common of a Confessor Bishop's own Nocturn 3,
# not transcribed here.
id: st-antoninus
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Antoninus, Florentiæ honestis parentibus natus, ab ipsa jam pueritia egregium
futuræ sanctitatis specimen exhibuit. Annum agens sextum decimum, religionem
Prædicatorum amplexus, cœpit exinde maximis clarere virtutibus. Otio perpetuum
bellum indixit. Post nocturnum brevem somnum primus matutinis precibus aderat;
quibus persolutis, reliquum tempus noctis orationibus, aut certe lectioni, et
scriptioni librorum tribuebat; et si quando importunior fessis membris somnus
obreperet, ad parietem paululum declinato capite, ac tantisper discusso somno mox
sacras vigilias avidius repetebat.
Disciplinæ regularis sui ipsius severissimus exactor, carnes, nisi in gravi
ægritudine, numquam edit. Humi, aut in nudo tabulato cubabat. Cilicio semper
usus, et interdum zona ferrea ad vivam cutem incinctus, virginitatem integerrime
semper coluit. In explicandis consiliis tantæ dexteritatis fuit, ut communi
elogio Antoninus consiliorum diceretur. Adeo autem in eo humilitas enituit, ut
étiam cœnobiis, ac provinciis præfectus abjectissima monasterii officia
demississime obiret. Ab Eugenio quarto Florentinus archiepiscopus renuntiatus,
ægerrime tandem nec nisi apostolicis minis perterrefactus ut episcopatum
acciperet, acquievit.
In eo munere vix dici potest, quantum prudentia, pietate, caritate, mansuetudine,
et sacerdotali zelo excelluerit. Illud mirandum, tantum ingenio valuisse, ut
omnes ferme scientias per se nullo adhibito præceptore, absolutissime didicerit.
Tandem post multos labores, multis étiam editis insignis doctrinæ libris, sacra
Eucharistia et Unctione percepta, complexus Crucifixi imaginem, mortem lætus
aspexit sexto Nonas Maji, anno millesimo quadringentesimo quinquagesimo nono.
Miraculis vivens et post mortem conspicuus, Sanctorum numero adscriptus est ab
Hadriano sexto, anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo vigesimo tertio.
en: >-
Antonine was born of respectable parents at Florence, and the holiness of his
after life was foreshadowed in him even as a little child. When he was sixteen
years of age he entered the Order of Friars Preachers, and from that time forth
he was a burning and a shining light to all the godly. He proclaimed a truceless
war against idleness; after a short night's rest, he was the first to come to the
service of Mattins; when they were over he spent the rest of the night in prayer,
or at least in reading, or writing out books, or if sleep altogether overcame his
weary body, he would rest against the wall with his head bowed down, and then
shake off slumber again, and set himself anew with fresh eagerness to his sacred
watch.
He required of himself the most unflinching observance of the Rule of his Order,
and never ate meat unless he were grievously ill. He slept upon the ground or
upon bare boards. He always wore haircloth, and sometimes an iron girdle which
bit into his naked skin. His virginity he kept ever undimmed by the least breath
or shadow. He was so skilful in giving advice that he gained the common nickname
of "Counsel Antonine." At the same time so beautifully brilliant was his
lowliness, that even when he was at the head of houses and provinces of his
Order, he most cheerfully undertook all the meanest services of the houses where
he was. Eugenius IV. appointed him Archbishop of Florence, and he took it so ill,
that it was only when awed by the threats of the Apostolic See that he obeyed,
and accepted the dignity.
As Archbishop it can hardly be told how noble he was, in wisdom, in godliness, in
love, in meekness, in Priestly zeal. It was wonderful to see how thoroughly he
taught himself nearly all the sciences, without the help of a master. At last,
after much work, and publishing many valuable books on Doctrine, he received the
Holy Eucharist and was anointed, and then, clasping the image of his crucified
Saviour to his heart, joyfully welcomed death, on the 2nd day of May, in the year
1459. He was remarkable for the working of miracles, both during his life and
after his death, and Adrian VI. enrolled his name among those of the Saints, in
the year 1523.
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop
# and Confessor (May 28). Sourced directly from
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-28.txt, English/Sancti/05-28.txt.
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita.
# Nocturn 3: his own Gospel citation ends "Et réliqua"/"And so on" with
# no full pericope given -- per the bare-incipit convention, only the
# homily (Lectio7-9, Pope St. Gregory the Great) is authored, isGospel:
# false, no citation field.
id: st-augustine-of-canterbury
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Augustinus Romæ in Lateranensi cœnobio monachus, a Gregorio Magno cum secus
monachis fere quadraginta in Angliam missus est anno quingentesimo nonagesimo
septimo, ut gentes illas ad Christum converteret. Erat eo tempore rex
Ethelbertus in Cantio potentissimus, qui audita adventus Augustíni causa, eum
cum sociis Cantuariam, sui regni metropolim, invitavit; ibique manendi et
Christum prædicandi facultatem eidem liberaliter concessit. Quare sanctus vir
prope Cantuariam oratorium exstruxit, ubi ipse aliquamdiu consedit, atque
apostolicam vivendi rationem cum suis æmulatus est.
Cælestis doctrina prædicatione plurimis firmata miraculis, ac vitai exemplo sic
insulanos illos demulsit, ut eorum plerosque ad christianam fidem perduxerit, ac
demum regem ipsum, quem cum innumero suorum comitatu sacro fonte lustravit,
summa cum lætitia Berthæ regiæ uxoris, quæ christiana erat. Olim in Natali
Domini, cum decem millibus et amplius baptismum in alveo fluminis Eboraci
contulisset, quotquot ex iis morbo aliquo affecti erant, cum animæ salute,
corporis quoque sanitatem recepisse memoriæ proditum est. Jussu Gregorii
ordinatus episcopus, sedem Cantuariæ instituit in ecclesia Salvatoris a se
erecta, in qua monachos operis sui subsidiarios collocavit; et sancti Petri
monasterium, quod postea et a suo nomine dictum est, in suburbanis construxit.
Idem Gregorius usum pallii cum facultate ecclesiasticæ hierarchiæ in Anglia
instituendas ei concessit, quo novam étiam operariorum manum misit, nempe
Mellitum, Justum, Paulinum, et Rufinianum.
Dispositis ejus ecclesiæ rebus, synodum habuit Augustinus cum episcopis atque
doctoribus veterum Britonum, qui in Paschæ celebratione aliusque ritibus ab
Ecclesia Romana jamdudum dissidebant. Sed cum eos neque Apostolicæ Sedis
auctoritate, neque miraculis movere posset ut dissidio cessarent, prophetico
spiritu eis excidium prænuntiavit. Denique maximis pro Christo exantlutis
laboribus, miraculis clarus, cum Mellitum Londinensi ecclesiæ præfecisset,
Justum Roffensi, suæ Laurentium, in cælum migravit septimo Kalendas Junias,
Ethelberto regnante, ac sepultus est in monasterio sancti Petri, quod exinde
Cantuariensium Antistitum et aliquot regum conditorium fuit. Ejus cultum
ferventi studio prosecutæ sunt Anglorum gentes, ac Leo decimus tertius Pontifex
Maximus ejus Oificium et Missam ad universam extendit Ecclesiam.
en: >-
Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Apostle of the English,
was sent into England by blessed Gregory, and came thither in the year 597. At
that time there was in Kent a most mighty king named Ethelbert, whose power
reached even to the Humber. When this King had heard wherefore the holy man was
come, he received him kindly, and bade him and his companions, who were all
monks, to come to his own capital city of Canterbury; being struck with
astonishment at the perfect blamelessness of their lives, and the power of the
heavenly doctrine which they preached, and which God confirmed with signs
following.
They drew nigh to the city in solemn procession, singing the Litany, and
bearing before them for their standard a silver cross and a picture of the Lord
our Saviour painted on a panel. Hard by the city, upon the east side, there was
a Church builded of old time in honour of St. Martin, and wherein the Queen, who
was a Christian, was used to pray. There they first began to meet together, to
sing, to pray, to celebrate Masses, to preach, and to baptize, until the King was
turned to the faith, and the most part of his people were led by his example,
(but not his authority,) to take the name of Christian, for he had learnt from
his teachers and his own soul's physicians, that men are to be drawn, and not
driven to heaven. And now Augustine, being ordained Archbishop of the English
and of Britain, lest he should leave untravailed any part of the Lord's
vineyard, asked from the Apostolic See a new band of labourers, Mellitus,
Justus, Paulinus, and Rufinian.
Having arranged the affairs of his church, Augustine held a synod with the
bishops and doctors of the ancient Britons, who had long been at variance with
the Roman Church in the celebration of Easter and other rites. But since he
could not move them, either by the authority of the apostolic see or by
miracles, to put an end to these variations, in a prophetic spirit he foretold
their ruin. At length, after having endured many difficulties for Christ, and
having become noted for miracles, when he had placed Mellitus in charge of the
church of London, Justus of that of Rochester, and Laurence in charge of his own
church, he passed to heaven on the 26th day of May, in the reign of Ethelbert,
and was buried in the monastery of St. Peter, which thereafter became the
burying-place of the bishops of Canterbury and of some kings. The English
people honoured his memory with fervent zeal; and the Supreme Pontiff Leo XIII
extended his Office and Mass to the universal Church.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "Pope St. Gregory the Great, Homilia 17 in Evangelia"
text:
la: >-
Dominus et Salvator noster, fratres carissimi, aliquando nos sermonibus,
aliquando vero operibus admonet. Ipsa etenim facta ejus præcepta sunt: quia dum
aliquid tacitus facit, quid agere debeamus innotescit. Ecce enim binos in
prædicationem discipulos mittit: quia duo sunt præcepta caritatis, Dei videlicet
amor, et proximi: et minus quam inter duos caritas haberi non potest. Nemo enim
proprie ad semetipsum habere caritatem dicitur: sed dilectio in alterum tendit,
ut caritas esse possit.
Ecce enim binos ad prædicandum discipulos Dominus mittit: quatenus hoc nobis
tacitus innuat, quia qui caritatem erga alterum non habet, prædicationis
officium suscipere nullatenus debet. Bene autem dicitur, quia misit eos ante
faciem suam in omnem civitatem et locum, quo erat ipse venturus. Prædicatores
enim suos Dominus sequitur: quia prædicatio prævenit, et tunc ad mentis nostræ
habitaculum Dominus venit, quando verba exhortationis præcurrunt: atque per hoc
veritas in mente suscipitur.
Hinc namque eisdem prædicatoribus Isaias dicit: Parate viam Domini, rectas
facite semitas Dei nostri. Hinc filiis Psalmista ait: Iter facite ei, qui
ascendit super occasum. Super occasum namque Dominus ascendit: quia unde in
passione occubuit, inde majorem suam gloriam resurgendo manifestavit. Super
occasum videlicet ascendit; quia mortem quam pertulit, resurgendo calcavit. Ei
ergo qui ascendit super occasum, iter facimus, cum nos ejus gloriam vestris
mentibus prædicamus, ut eas et ipse post veniens, per amoris sui præsentiam
illustret.
en: >-
Dearly beloved brethren, our Lord and Saviour doth sometimes admonish us by
words, and sometimes by works. Yea, His very works do themselves teach us; for
that which He doth silently His example still moveth us to copy. Behold how He
sendeth forth His disciples to preach by two and two; since there are two
commandments to love, that is, a commandment to love God, and a commandment to
love our neighbour; and where there are not two, the one, being alone, hath not
whereon to do the Lord's commandment. And no man can properly be said to love
himself: for love tendeth outward toward our neighbour, if it be the love
whereto the Gospel doth oblige us.
Behold, the Lord sendeth forth His disciples to preach by two and two; and thus
doing, He doth silently teach us that whosoever loveth not his neighbour, such
an one it behoveth not to take upon him the office of a preacher. Well also is
it said that He sent them before His face into every city and place whither He
Himself would come. The Lord followeth His preachers; first cometh preaching,
and then the Lord Himself cometh to the house of our mind, whither the word of
exhortation hath come before; and so cometh the truth into our mind.
Therefore to preachers saith Isaiah: "Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make
straight an highway for our God." And again the Psalmist saith: "Spread a path
before Him That rideth upon the West." The Lord rideth upon the West; above
that from which in death He veiled His glory, hath He royally exalted that
glory that excelleth, even the glory of His rising again. He rideth upon the
West, Who, being risen again from the dead, is throned high above the death to
which He bowed. Before Him, therefore, That rideth upon the West, we spread a
path, when we set forth His glory before the eyes of your mind, to the end that
He Himself may come after, and Himself enlighten the same your minds by His
presence and His love.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Bernardine of Siena, Confessor
# (May 20). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-20.txt,
# English/Sancti/05-20.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in his own file (his `[Rule]` is `vide
# C5`) -- defers to the Common of a Confessor's own Nocturn 3, not
# transcribed here.
id: st-bernardine-of-siena
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Bernardinus Albizesca, nobili Senénsi família ortus, ab ineunte ætate non
obscura sanctitátis dedit indícia; nam a piis paréntibus honeste educatus,
neglectis puerílibus ludis, inter prima grammaticæ stúdia pietátis opéribus
ánimum inténdit, jejuniis, oratióni, et beatíssimæ Vírginis cultui præcipue
addictus. Misericórdia vero in páuperes fuit insígnis. Quæ quidem ómnia
procedénte témpore quo mélius posset excólere, eórum número adscribi vóluit, qui
Senis in hospitali domo beátæ Maríæ de Scala Deo inserviunt, unde complures
sanctitáte celebres viri prodiérunt. Ibi corporis afflictatióne et ægrotántium
cura, dum atrox pestiléntia grassarétur, incredibili caritate sese exercuit.
Inter ceteras autem virtútes castitátem, egregia forma repugnante, sanctíssime
custodívit adeo ut eo præsénte nemo umquam, ne impudentíssimus quidem, verbum
minus honestum proferre auderet.
Gravi morbo tentatus, eoque ad quatuor menses patientíssime toleráto, demum
incolumis, de religiosæ vitæ instituto capesséndo deliberare cœpit. Quo ut sibi
viam muniret, ædiculam in extrema urbe conduxit; in quam cum sese abdidísset,
asperrimam omni ex parte vitam trahebat, Deum assidue orans, ut, quid sibi
sequéndum esset, osténderet. Quare divinitus factus est, ut beáti Francisci
ordinem præ ceteris optaret, in quo humilitate, patiéntia aliisque religiosi
hóminis virtútibus excelluit. Id cum cœnobii rector animadverteret, jamque antea
Bernardini doctrinam et sacrárum litterárum perítiam perspectam haberet,
prædicándi onus eidem impósuit: quo humillime suscepto, cum se minus idoneum
agnosceret ob vocis exilitátem ac raucitátem, Dei ope implorata, non sine
miraculo ejusmodi impediménto liberátus est.
Cumque ea témpora vitiis criminibúsque redundarent, et cruentis factiónibus in
Italia, divina humanaque ómnia permixta essent, Bernardinus urbes atque oppida
concursans, in nómine Jesu, quem semper in ore et in péctore gerebat, collapsam
pietátem moresque verbo et exemplo magna ex parte restituit. Quo factum est, ut
præcláræ civitátes eum sibi episcopum a summo Pontifice postularent; quod ille
munus invicta humilitate constantíssime rejécit. Denique vir Dei imménsis
labóribus exhaustus, multis magnisque editis miraculis, libris étiam pie
docteque conscriptis, cum vixísset annos sex ac sexagínta, in urbe Aquila in
Vestinis beato fine quiévit. Quem novis in dies coruscántem signis, anno post
obitum sexto, Nicolaus quintus Pontifex maximus in Sanctórum númerum retulit.
en: >-
This Bernardine was born of the noble family of the Albizeschi, in the Republic
of Siena. His saintliness began to manifest itself from his earliest years. He
was well brought up by a godly father and mother, and even when he was being
taught the first rudiments of worldly learning, he used to give up his
play-time to occupy himself with devout works, being much drawn to fasting,
prayer, and the devotion to the most Blessed Virgin. He abounded likewise in
tenderness for the poor. As time went on, that he might the more entirely do
these things, it was his will to enroll himself among those who work in the
Hospital of Blessed Mary, called "of the Ladder," at Sienna. There, during the
raging of an horrible distemper, he laboured with marvellous charity and great
bodily suffering, in serving the sick. In bodily presence he was a very goodly
person, but, with all his other virtues, he kept ever so holy a guard over his
purity, that it soon came to pass that no one, however shameless, dared to say
an unseemly word in his presence.
He suffered a severe sickness, and when, after bearing it with the utmost
patience, he recovered his health, he began to think of embracing some
institute of the religious life. To make his way sure, he built a little hut in
the outskirts of the city, where he hid himself and led a life of hardships of
all kinds, continuing instant in prayer to God that He would be pleased to make
clear to him what path he should follow. And so it came to pass by God's will
that he chose the Order of Blessed Francis. In that Order he shone a bright
instance of lowliness, long-suffering, and every other grace of a religious
man. When the superior of his convent saw this, and had already considered what
his teaching and knowledge of sacred learning were, he laid on Bernardine the
duty of preaching. This the Saint humbly accepted, and finding that his
usefulness was much impaired by his having a shrill, harsh voice, he betook him
to implore the help of God, Who was pleased, not without a miracle, to free him
from this drawback.
Those were times fruitful in vices and crimes and the bloody civil wars which
raged in Italy confounded all things Divine and human. Bernardine went through
the cities and towns, and, in the Name of Jesus, that Name which he ever bore
upon his lips and in his heart, he prevailed in great measure by his word and
example, in setting up falling godliness and morality. Illustrious cities
demanded him from the Pope as their Bishop, but this was an honour which his
unconquerable humility caused him always steadily to refuse. At last the man of
God, after untold labours, the working of many and great miracles, and the
writing of godly and learned books, in the 67th year of his age, at Aquila in
the Abruzzi, rested in a blessed death. As the fame of new signs and wonders
increased day by day, Pope Nicholas V., in the sixth year after his death, added
his name to the roll of the Saints.
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. John Baptist de la Salle,
# Confessor (May 15). Sourced directly from
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-15.txt, English/Sancti/05-15.txt.
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita.
# Nocturn 3: his own Gospel citation ends "Et réliqua"/"And so on, and
# that which followeth" with no full pericope given -- per the
# bare-incipit convention, only the homily (Lectio7-9, St. John
# Chrysostom) is authored, isGospel: false, no citation field.
id: st-john-baptist-de-la-salle
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Joánnes Baptista de la Salle, Rhemis claro genere ortus, puer adhuc móribus et
factis in sortem Dómini se vocándum et sanctimoniæ laude honestándum portendit.
Adoléscens in Rheménsi academía litteras ac philosophicas disciplínas didicit:
quo témpore, etsi ob animi virtútes et álacre ingenium ac suave ómnibus carus
esset, ab æqualium tamen societáte abhorrebat, ut solitudini addictus facílius
Deo vacaret. In clericalem milítiam jampridem cooptatus, sexto décimo ætátis anno
inter Rhemenses canonicos adscriptus est, Lutétiam Parisiórum, theologíæ in
Sorbónica universitáte datúrus operam, contendit, atque in Sulpitianum seminárium
adscítus est. At brevi paréntibus orbatus, domum régredi coactus, fratres
educándos suscépit; quod, scientiárum interim sacrárum stúdia non intermittens,
optimo cum fructu præstitit, uti éxitus comprobávit.
Sacerdotio demum auctus, qua præstanti fide animique ardore primum ad aram fecit,
eisdem toto vitæ témpore Sacris est operatus. Interea, salútis animárum studio
incénsus, totum in earumdem utilitátem sese impendit. Sorórum a Jesu infante,
puellis educandis institutárum, regimen suscépit; easque non modo prudentíssime
est moderátus, sed ab excidio vindicávit. Hinc porro ánimum advértit ad púeros de
plebe religióne bonisque móribus informándos. Atque in hoc quidem illum
suscitaverat Deus, ut scilicet, nova in Ecclésia sua religiosórum hóminum família
cóndita, puerórum, præsertim páuperum, scholis perenni efficacíque ratióne
consuleret. Demandátum vero a Dei providéntia munus, per contradictiónes
plurimas magnasque ærúmnas, feliciter implévit, fundáta fratrum sodalitate, quam
a Scholis christiánis nuncupávit.
Adjunctos ígitur sibi hómines in gravi opere et arduo, apud se primum suscépit;
tum aptiori in sede constitutos disciplína sua optime imbuit iis légibus
sapientibúsque institutis, quæ póstea a Benedicto décimo tertio sunt confírmata.
Ex demissióne animi ac paupertátis amóre primum canonicatu se abdicávit,
omniáque sua bona in páuperes erogávit; quin étiam serius, quod frustra sæpius
tentaverat, fundáti a se institúti regimen sponte depósuit. Nihil tamen interim
de fratrum sollicitúdine remíttens deque scholis ab eo, plúribus jam locis,
apertis, impensius Deo vacare cœpit. Assidue jejuniis, flagellis aliisque
asperitátibus in se ipsum sæviens, noctes orando ducebat. Donec, virtútibus
ómnibus conspicuus, præsertim obediéntia, studio divinæ voluntátis implendæ,
amóre ac devotióne in apostolicam Sedem; meritis onustus, sacramentis rite
susceptis, obdormívit in Dómino annos natus duo de septuagínta. Eum Leo décimus
tertius, Pontifex maximus, Beatórum catálogo inseruit; novisque fulgentem
signis, anno jubilæi millesimo nongentésimo, Sanctórum honóribus decorávit. Pius
vero duodecimus ómnium magistrórum púeris adulescentibúsque instituéndis
præcipuum apud Deum cælestem Patronum constítuit.
en: >-
John Baptist de La Salle, born of an honourable family at Reims, when still a boy
shewed by his manners and actions that he was called by destiny to the Lord, and
was to be adorned with the excellence of holiness. As a youth he studied
literature and the philosophical sciences at the academy at Rheims. During this
time, although his mental powers and his lively and pleasant disposition
endeared him to all, he nevertheless shrank from the company of his fellows, so
that, being inclined to solitude, he might the more easily find time for God.
Already having been for some time enlisted in the ranks of the clergy, he was
enrolled among the canons of Reims at the age of sixteen years. He went to Paris
to study theology at the university of the Sorbonne, and was admitted to the
Sulpician seminary. But he was soon forced to return home because of the death
of his parents, and undertook the education of his brothers, which he carried
on, without meanwhile interrupting his sacred studies, and with the greatest
success, as was proved by subsequent events.
He was finally ordained priest, and said his first Mass with the intense faith
and ardour of the soul which, throughout his whole life, he brought to those
holy Mysteries. Meanwhile, burning with zeal for the salvation of souls, he
devoted himself wholly to their service. He undertook the direction of the
Sisters of the Infant Jesus, founded for the education of girls; and not only
managed them most prudently, but saved their institute from dissolution. From
this time onwards, he turned his attention to the education of poor boys in
religion and good morals. And God had raised him up for this very end, namely,
that he should found in his Church a new family of religious men, and should
look after boys' schools, especially of poor boys, with unceasing and efficient
care. And, indeed, this duty, entrusted to him by Divine providence, was
successfully accomplished, in spite of very much opposition and great
hardships, by the foundation of an institute of brothers which he named the
Christian Schools.
His male associates in this great and arduous work he at first received into his
own house; and then, establishing them in a more suitable dwelling, thoroughly
inspired them with his method and with those wise laws and regulations which
were afterwards confirmed by Benedict XIII. Because of humility and love of
poverty, he first resigned his canonry and distributed all his property among
the poor; and later also, after many unsuccessful attempts to do so, he of his
own will resigned the government of the institute which he had founded. But
meanwhile his solicitude for the brothers and for the schools which he opened in
different places did not lessen, though he began to give himself more diligently
to God. Shewing his hatred for self in constant fastings, in the use of the
discipline and in other austerities, he spent his nights in prayer. At length,
conspicuous for every kind of virtue, especially obedience, and zeal for
fulfilling the divine will, and love and devotion to the Apostolic See, full of
merit, and having devoutly received the sacraments, he fell asleep in the Lord
in the sixty-eighth year of his age. The Supreme Pontiff Leo XIII placed him in
the list of the Blessed; and, illustrious by new miracles, he was adorned with
honours of the Saints in the year of jubilee, 1900. Pius XII appointed him the
special heavenly patron of all teachers of boys and young men.
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- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "St. John Chrysostom, In Cap. 18 Matth. Hom. 60"
text:
la: >-
Vidéte ne aliquem istórum contempséritis parvulórum, quia eórum Angeli Patris mei
fáciem semper aspíciunt, et quia ego propter eos veni, et hæc Patris mei volúntas
est. Ad tuéndos conservándosque pusillos diligentiores nos reddit. Pérspicis
quam ingéntia in tutelam tenúium mœnia erexerit, et quantum studium curamque
habeat, ne perdántur; tum quia supremas despiciéntibus eos pœnas státuit, tum
quia summam pollicétur mercedem his qui curam eórum suscipiunt, idque tam suo
quam Patris exemplo corróborat.
Dóminum ígitur étiam nos imitemur, et nihil pro frátribus omittamus, étiam
eórum quæ humília viliáque nimium vidéntur. Sed, si administratióne nostra étiam
opus fúerit, quamvis ténuis atque abjéctus quidem, cui administrándum sit,
fúerit, quamvis ardua nobis res atque labóris plena esse videátur; ómnia hæc pro
fratris salúte tolerabilióra facilióraque, oro, videántur. Tanto enim studio
tantáque cura Deus dignam esse ánimam osténdit, ut neque Fílio suo pepercerit.
Si non est nobis satis ad salútem, quod virtuose ipse vivamus, sed oportet
aliórum salútem re ipsa desiderare; cum neque nos recte vivámus neque alios
hortemur, quid respondébimus? quæ nobis spes salútis réliqua erit? Quid majus
quam ánimis moderari, quam adolescentulórum fingere mores? Omni certe pictore,
omni certe statuario, ceterisque hujusmodi ómnibus excellentiórem hunc duco, qui
juvenum animos fingere non ignoret.
en: >-
Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones, saith the Lord, for
their Angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. It was
as though he had said: It was for them that I came, because this is the will of
my Father. Thus doth he make it our duty to be full of thought and care for the
protection and safety of these little ones. Ye see what vast ramparts he hath
built for the protection of the little ones, and how much care and trouble he
hath taken that they shall not be lost; yea, he pronounceth extreme penalties on
them that despise them; and for them that undertake to care wholeheartedly for
them he promiseth most high rewards. And all these things of his teaching, he
doth further enforce by his own example and by the example of the eternal
Father himself.
Let us therefore take to heart what the Lord saith, and imitate his example. Let
us neglect nothing which it is in our power to do for these our little brothers
and sisters. Let us be ready to undertake any work on their behalf, even the
most homely and mean (that is, homely and mean in the eyes of men). And if there
should be some further need of our assistance, even to the point of
self-denying and laborious effort on our part, let us render it graciously; and
let us do these things the more so when our help is required for one that is
tiny and unloved and unwanted. And let us practice ourselves in these things
until they become tolerable to us, and even easy, because we do them for the
sake of one who is our little brother or sister in Christ. For God hath made
evident that every soul is worthy of so much diligent care that he spared not
his own Son for the sake of such.
If it be not enough for our salvation that we ourselves live virtuously, but we
should desire in very truth the salvation of others; what shall we answer, if we
do not live right nor teach others? What hope of salvation will remain unto us?
What is nobler than to rule minds or to mould the character of the young? I
consider that he who knoweth how to form the youthful mind is truly greater than
all painters, sculptors, and all others of that sort.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. John Baptist de Rossi, Confessor
# (May 23). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-23.txt,
# English/Sancti/05-23.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous vita (his own file has no Lectio94/teDeum marker at all --
# not a gap, just how the source lays out this particular office). No
# Lectio7-9 in his own file (his `[Rule]` is `vide C5`) -- defers to
# the Common of a Confessor's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed here.
id: st-john-baptist-de-rossi
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Joannes Baptista de Rossi Veiturii in Liguria honesto genere ortus, adhuc puer
morum suavitate ac pietatis studio in omnium admiratione fuit. Tredecim annos
natus visus est Dei consilio Romam mitti, ut apostoli munus in ea expleret.
Inter ephebos Collegii Romani Societatis Jesu adlectus, ingenio et virtute
præluxit. Curabat impense, ut ii Mariano sodalitio frequentes adessent, in
nosocomiis segris ministrarent, honestaque animarum recreatione retraherentur a
noxiis; interim cælestia sermonibus pertractans segniores excitabat, ac proinde
Apostoli agnomen adeptus est. Ob asperam corporis castigationem gravi morbo
correptus, ab usitata sibi studiorum severitate aliquantum remittere coactus
fuit: quod divinitus factum ajebat, ne scientia inflatus sua potius quæreret,
quam quæ Jesu Christi. Clericali militiæ adscriptus sacris disciplinis in sancti
Thomæ collegio operam dedit, ac in virtute proficiens, dein ingenti animi
voluptate sacerdotio est auctus. Ita Dominum in hereditatem sibi constituit, ut
nullum, ne oblatum quidem, ecclesiasticum beneficium acceptandi, nisi
obedientia adigeretur, singulari voto se obstrinxerit.
De spirituali proximorum salute jam ab adolescentia sollicitus, sacerdos factus
in id totum se devovit. Ecclesiasticos viros, sacras virgines, oppidanos,
carcere detentos, imam plebem universam mira suavitate, verbi ministerio ad
virtutis amórem inflammabat. Plures quotidie horas rudiorum confessionibus
excipiendis impendens, ægrotis aderat vel in domibus vel in valetudinarus,
præsertim phisicis, quos sui veluti juris esse affirmabat. Hac illac per urbem
alacer advolans, innumeris operibus præsto erat: at assiduus in sanctæ Gallæ
hospitio versabatur, ut pauperes, quos carissimos habuit, omni ope juvaret. Ob
id a decimo quinto ætatis anno adjunctus sacerdotum cœtui, qui eisdem
evangelizando addicti sunt, ibi apostolatus sui rationem didicit, ipsiusque
societatis opera instauravit et auxit. Eadem misericordia motus egenorum omnium
necessitatibus sublevandis modicam suam substantiam impendit. Perennes autem
infatigabilis sui zeli fructus reliquit, satellitum, vagorum, rudium
institutionem, catecheses ad sancte Pascha celebrandum, certam custodiam
perditarum, noctuque per Urbem vagantium mulierum hospitium, præcipue vero
studium lucrandi animas in clero excitatum.
Caritatis in Deum ardor ex ejus ore emicabat, dum sacris operabatur, nec sine
lacrimis de ejus bonitate loqui poterat. In collegium canonicorum basilicæ
sanctæ Mariæ in Cosmedin ex obedientia cooptatus, inter psallendum extra sensus
rapi videbatur. In sacris ceremoniis diligentissimus, domus Dei decorem
promovit, et in id suas opes libenter erogabat. Amorem erga Deiparam in alios
effundebat, ejusque cultum in sua ecclesia fovit, addito étiam psalmodiæ
quotidiano laudum præconio. Philippi Nerii spiritu imbui studens, et in omnes
cælites pius, Apostolorum Principum obsequium augendum curavit. In oratione
omnique virtutum exercitatione assiduus, supernis quoque charismatibus donatus,
tandem in hospitio, cui nomen a sanctissima Trinitate, quo se reduxerat in
sacerdotum convictum, laboribus fractus ad vitæ exitum adductus est, atque
Ecclesiæ sacramentis refectus, caritatis opera et pauperum curam commendans,
decessit in osculo Domini, die vigesima tertia Maji, anno Christi millesimo
septingentesimo sexagesimo quarto, ætatis suæ sexagesimo sexto. Insigne adeo
sacerdotalis virtutis exemplar miraculis Deus illustrare dignatus est, quibus
rite probatis, Summus Pontifex Pius nonus tertio Idus Maji anno millesimo
octingentesimo sexagesimo cælitum beatorum honoribus auxit: novisque fulgentem
signis Leo decimus tertius sexto Idus Decembris anno millesimo octingentesimo
octogesimo primo in sanctorum albo recensuit.
en: >-
John Baptist de Rossi was born of a respectable family at Voltaggio, in the
diocese of Genoa, and, as a child, was the wonder of all on account of his
gentleness and godliness. At thirteen years of age the good providence of God
sent him to Rome, where he was destined afterwards to do the work of an
Apostle. As a student at the Roman College he was distinguished both for his
talents and his goodness. He was very anxious that his comrades should attend
regularly the meetings of the guild of the Blessed Virgin, should minister to
the sick in hospitals, and should be diverted from objectionable recreations by
harmless amusements; at the same time he stirred up the more sluggish by his
words on heavenly things, and from that time got the surname of Apostle. He fell
seriously ill on account of his severe treatment of his own body, and was
therefore obliged to relax somewhat the earnestness of his studies. This he was
accustomed to say was God's dealing with him that he might not be puffed up
with knowledge, and so seek his own rather than those things which are Jesus
Christ's. After joining the clergy he went through the sacred training in the
College of St. Thomas, where he went from strength to strength, and then with
deep joy of soul received the Priesthood. He so chose the Lord to be his own
inheritance, that he bound himself by a special vow not to accept any church
benefice, even if it were offered him quite unsolicited, unless he were
compelled to do so by obedience.
After he became a Priest, he devoted himself entirely to the spiritual health of
his neighbours, which had been his care from his youth up. By the ministry of
the Word, with wonderful gentleness he stirred up to the love of good alike
ecclesiastics, holy virgins, citizens, prisoners, and the whole lowest class of
the population. He spent several hours every day in hearing the confessions of
the illiterate, and visited in their homes or in hospitals the sick, and
especially the consumptive, of whom he spoke as his own. He hurried about the
city, and took part in countless good works, but was especially careful in
visiting the hospital of St. Galla, to help in every way he could the poor, whom
he held as a special object of affection. From his fifteenth year he was joined
to a body of Priests whose special work was preaching to the poor, with them he
learnt his apostleship, and he arranged and disseminated their labours. The same
pity caused him to spend his modest substance in relieving the necessities of
the needy. He left behind him abiding fruits of his unwearied zeal for the
instruction of servants, wanderers, and the illiterate classes for the holy
celebration of Easter, an home of refuge for the safe keeping of the lost women
who wander through the city by night, but above all the earnestness for the
salvation of souls aroused among the clergy.
The brightness of his love of God shone forth in his face while he was
officiating, and he could not speak of His goodness without tears. He was
forced, out of obedience, to accept a Canon's stall in the collegiate church of
St. Mary in Cosmedin, and during the psalmody he seemed to become entranced. He
was very careful as to the sacred ceremonies, sought the beauty of the house of
God, and freely contributed of his means to that object. He communicated to
others his own love towards the Mother of God, and he promoted her worship in
his own church, where he instituted a daily sermon in her honour, in addition
to her Office. He sought to fill himself with the spirit of Philip Neri, and
while he was devout towards all the dwellers in heaven, he promoted increased
honour for the princes of the Apostles; he was constant in prayer and in every
good work, and rich in gifts of grace. At length in the hospital called that of
the Most Holy Trinity, whither he had withdrawn to live along with the Priests,
broken down by work, he reached the end of life, and when he had received the
sacraments of the Church, and again exhorted to works of charity and to the
care of the poor, he died in the Lord's kiss upon the 23rd day of May, in the
year of Christ 1764, and of his own age the sixty-sixth. God was pleased to
mark by miracles so remarkable an example of priestly grace, and when these had
been duly proved, the Supreme Pontiff Pius IX., upon the 13th day of May, in the
year 1860, ascribed to him the honours paid to the blessed in heaven. As new
signs still distinguished him, Leo XIII., upon the 8th day of December, in the
year 1881, enrolled him among the Saints.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, Virgin
# (May 29). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-29.txt,
# English/Sancti/05-29.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in her own file (her `[Rule]` is `vide
# C6a`) -- defers to the Common of a Virgin's own Nocturn 3, not
# transcribed here.
id: st-mary-magdalene-de-pazzi
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Maria Magdalena, illustrióri Pazziórum genere Floréntiæ nata, fere ab
incunabulis iter perfectiónis arrípuit. Decennis perpetuam virginitátem vovit,
susceptoque habitu in monastério sanctæ Maríæ Angelórum, ordinis
Carmelitárum, se ómnium virtútum exemplar exhíbuit. Adeo casta fuit, ut
quidquid puritátem lǽdere potest, pénitus ignoraverit. Quinquénnium, Deo
jubénte, solo pane et aqua transegit, exceptis diébus Domínicis, quibus cibis
quadragesimálibus vescebátur. Corpus suum cilício, flagellis, frígore, inedia,
vigiliis, nuditate, atque omni pœnárum genere cruciábat.
Tanto igne divini amoris æstuábat, ut, ei feréndo impar, ingesta aqua pectus
refrigerare cogerétur. Extra sensus frequenter rapta, diuturnas et admirábiles
éxtases passa est, in quibus et arcana cæléstia penetrávit, et exímiis a Deo
grátiis illustráta fuit. His autem muníta longum certamen a princípibus
tenebrárum sustinuit, árida, desoláta, ab ómnibus derelícta, variisque
tentatiónibus vexáta; Deo sic permittente, ut invíctæ patiéntiæ ac
profundíssimæ humilitátis exémplar præbéret.
Caritáte erga próximum singuláriter enítuit; nam sæpe noctes ducebat insomnes,
vel obeúndis sorórum ministériis, vel inserviéndo infirmis occupata, quarum
aliquándo úlcera lambens sanávit. Infidélium et peccatórum perditiónem amare
deflens, se ad quælibet pro illórum salúte torménta parátam offerébat. Multis
ante obitum annis, univérsis cæli deliciis, quibus copiose affluébat, heróica
virtúte renuntians, illud frequénter in ore habébat: Pati, non mori. Tandem
longa et gravíssima infirmitáte exháusta, transívit ad Sponsum die vigésima
quinta Maji, anno millésimo sexcentésimo septimo, expleto anno quadragésimo
primo ætátis suæ. Eam, multis in vita et post mortem miráculis claram, Clemens
nonus sanctárum Vírginum número adscrípsit: cujus corpus in præséntem diem
incorrúptum conservátur.
en: >-
This Mary Magdalen was born of the noble Florentine family of the Pazzi. She
was hardly out of her cradle when she set her feet in the path of perfection.
At ten years of age she made a vow of perpetual virginity, and took the habit of
the Order of Mount Carmel, in the convent of Saint Mary of the Angels. In that
sisterhood she was in all ways a pattern to all. She was pure to that degree,
that she did not even know of the existence of anything which can hurt
modesty. For the space of five years, by the command of God, she lived upon
nothing but bread and water, the Lord's Day only excepted, in which she used
the food which is taken in Lent. She chastised her body with hair-cloth,
scourging, cold, hunger, watching, nakedness, and all manner of hardships.
The love of God was so hot within her, that she was sometimes fain to bathe
her breast with cold water to allay the agitation. She was oftentimes rapt in
the spirit, and that most marvellously, for whole days at a time, during which
trances she saw things hidden and heavenly, and was enlightened of God with
great gifts. But after all these things she had a stern tussling with the
prince of the darkness of this world, while God allowed her spirit to remain
dry, deserted, abandoned by all, and tormented with diverse temptations. And
all that while she remained an example of unconquered patience and the deepest
lowly-mindedness.
She was very remarkable for her tender love toward her neighbours. Sometimes
she went whole nights without sleep, while she was working for the service of
the sisters, or waiting upon the sick. She sometimes healed sores even by
licking them. That there should be unbelievers and sinners perishing caused her
bitter weeping, and she offered herself to God to suffer for their conversion
whatsoever He chose. For many years, therefore, before her death, her mighty
charity towards others, made her freely to give up that heavenly joy of spirit,
wherewith she had once so overflowed. She had often in her mouth the words: To
suffer, not to die. At length, in the forty-second year of her age, after a
long and grievous sickness, the Bridegroom came, and she entered with Him into
the marriage-chamber. Clement IX, finding that God had glorified her by many
miracles, both during her life and after her death, enrolled her name among
those of the Holy Virgins. Her body, up to the present day, has never shown the
least sign of corruption.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Paschal Baylon, Confessor (May 17).
# Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-17.txt,
# English/Sancti/05-17.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in his own file (his `[Rule]` is `vide
# C5`) -- defers to the Common of a Confessor's own Nocturn 3, not
# transcribed here.
id: st-paschal-baylon
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Paschalis Baylon, paupéribus piisque paréntibus in oppido Turris Formosæ,
Seguntinæ diœcesis, in Aragónia natus, a téneris annis plura dedit futuræ
sanctitátis indicia. Sortítus ánimam bonam ac rerum cæléstium appríme studiosam,
puerítiam atque adolescéntiam in gregis custódia transegit; quam ille vivéndi
ratiónem ideo præcipue diligebat, quod humilitáti fovendæ ac innocéntiæ
conservandæ in primis utilem atque opportunam judicáret. Erat in victu modicus,
in oratióne assiduus, tantáque apud coævos et socios florebat auctoritate et
grátia, ut eórum lites compónens, erróres corrigens, ignorantiam erudiens ac
desidiam éxcitans, velut ómnium parens et magister máximo studio colerétur ac
amarétur: beátus étiam tum a plerisque appellatus.
Qui vero in sæculo, terra nempe desérta et inaquósa, adeo feliciter adoléverat,
flos convallium, plantátus in domo Dómini, mirum ubíque sparsit sanctitátis
odórem. Igitur Paschalis arrepto vitæ severioris instituto, atque in ordine
Minórum strictioris observantiæ Discalceatórum cooptatus, exsultávit ut gigas ad
curréndam viam suam; totumque se Dómino excoléndum tradens, dies noctesque
cogitabat, qua se ratióne magis ei magisque conformaret. Ita factum est brevi, ut
eum, tamquam seraphicæ perfectiónis exemplar, ipsi quoque provectiores imitándum
sibi propónerent. Ipse autem in humili serviéntium gradu constitútus, se velut
ómnium peripséma réputans, ardua quæque et abjecta domus ministeria, véluti jure
quodam peculiari sibi débita, summa cum hilaritate suscipiebat, et exercebat
humilitate ac patiéntia pari. Carnem spiritui quandoque reluctari nitentem jugi
maceratióne afflictávit, atque in servitútem redégit; spíritum vero assidua sui
abnegatióne ferventiórem in dies ad anterióra extendebat.
Deíparam Vírginem, cujus clientelæ se ab ineunte ætate dicáverat, tamquam matrem
quotidiánis colebat obsequiis atque filiali exorábat fiducia. Porro erga
sanctíssimum Eucharistiæ sacraméntum difficile dictu est quam ardénti tenerétur
devotiónis afféctu; quem defunctus étiam in cadávere retinére visus est, dum,
jacens in féretro, ad sacræ Hostiæ elevatiónem bis óculos reserávit et clausit,
magna ómnium, qui áderant, admiratióne. Ejusdem veritátem inter hæreticos publice
palamque proféssus, multa et gravia ob eam causam perpéssus est; crebro étiam ad
necem petítus, sed singulari Dei providéntia ab impiórum mánibus ereptus. Sæpe
inter orándum ómnibus destituebátur sensibus, dulcique languebat amoris
deliquio: quo témpore cælestem illam sciéntiam hausisse créditus est, qua, homo
rudis et illiteratus, de mystériis fidei difficillimis respondére, atque áliquot
étiam libros conscríbere pótuit. Denique meritis plenus, eádem qua prædixerat
hora, feliciter migrávit ad Dóminum, anno salútis millesimo quingentésimo
nonagesimo secundo, sexto décimo Kalendas Junii, eodem, quo natus fuerat, festo
Pentecostes recurrente, annum agens secúndum supra quinquagesimum.
en: >-
Paschal Baylon was the son of poor and godly parents, in the town of Torre
Hermosa, and Diocese of Sagunta in Aragon. From his childhood he gave
indications of a holy life. He was naturally of a good disposition, and very
wishful to learn about heavenly things. His boyhood and youth he passed in the
occupation of a shepherd. This way of life pleased him well, because he thought
it one useful and fitted to nourish lowliness and keep innocency. He ate little,
and was instant in prayer. He had great weight and favour with his fellows and
neighbours, whose quarrels he healed, corrected their mistakes, enlightened
their ignorance, and roused them from idleness. They all greatly honoured and
loved him, as though he were their father and teacher, and even then many called
him "Beato," that is "the Blessed."
In a world which was to him "a dry land, where no water is" the vallies,
"planted in the House of the Lord," whose strange sweetness spread all around.
When he took upon him an harder life, by entering the Institute of barefooted
Grey Friars, of the strict Observance, "he rejoiced as a strong man to run a
race," and gave himself up altogether to serve the Lord, thinking by day and by
night only how he might attain more and more to have that mind in him which was
also in Christ Jesus. And so it came to pass in a little while, that his very
elders set him before them for their model, as a pattern of a man seeking to be
perfect in the path of the Seraphic Order. Paschal himself held the lowly place
of a lay brother, and deemed himself "the off-scouring of all things." He took
most cheerfully, and discharged with the greatest humility and patience, the
hardest and meanest work of the house, as though such were his peculiar right.
His flesh would sometimes rebel against his spirit, but he broke it under the
yoke of mortification, and brought it into subjection. Day by day the spirit of
self-denial waxed stronger in him, and "forgetting those things which were
behind, he reached forth unto those things which were before."
The Virgin Mother of God he had vowed himself when he was but a little lad, and
he paid her every day the services of a son, and trusted her as a mother. It is
hard to tell how intense was the love which bound him to the Most Holy Sacrament
of the Eucharist, a love which seemed literally stronger than death, for when
his dead body was found lying on the bier, its eyes opened and shut twice when
the Sacred Host was lifted up, to the amazement of all that were there. When he
was among heretics, he suffered much and grievously at their hands for plainly
and openly telling the truth touching this Sacrament; they often sought after
him to murder him, but by the singular Providence of God he was delivered from
those wicked men. When he was at prayer he often became utterly insensible, and
his soul fainted away with the love of God. During these trances it was believed
that he received directly from heaven that knowledge which he had, and which
enabled him, although a man altogether rough and unlettered, to answer the
hardest questions upon the mysteries of the faith, and even to write some books.
At last, full of good works, he joyfully passed away to be ever with the Lord,
at the hour foretold by himself, on the Feast of Pentecost, the 17th day of May,
in the year of salvation 1592, on which day also he had been born fifty-two
years before.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Pius V, Pope and Confessor (May 5).
# Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-05.txt,
# English/Sancti/05-05.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous vita. Nocturn 3 in the Common of Confessor Popes (C4b) is
# a cross-reference to St. Gregory the Great's own Nocturn 3
# (`@Sancti/03-12`), not this saint's own content -- not transcribed.
id: st-pius-v
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Pius in oppido Insubriæ, quod Boschum vocant, natus, sed e Bonónia oriundus ex
nobili Ghisleriórum família, cum quatuordecim esset annórum, ordinem Prædicatórum
ingréssus est. Erat in eo admirábilis patiéntia, profúnda humilitas, summa vitæ
austeritas, continuum oratiónis studium, et regularis observantiæ ac divini
honoris ardentíssimus zelus. Philosophíæ vero ac theologíæ incumbens, adeo in iis
excelluit, ut illas docéndi munus magna cum laude per multos annos exercúerit.
Sacras conciónes plúribus in locis cum ingénti auditórum fructu hábuit.
Inquisitoris offícium inviolábili animi fortitúdine diu sustinuit; multasque
civitátes, non sine vitæ discrimine, ab hæresi tunc grassante immunes servávit.
A Paulo quarto, cui ob exímias virtútes caríssimus erat, ad Nepesínum et
Sutrinum episcopátum promotus, et post biennium inter Romanæ Ecclésiæ presbyteros
cardinales adscriptus fuit. Tum ad ecclésiam Montis Regalis in Subalpinis a Pio
quarto translatus, cum plures in eam abusus irrepsisse cognovísset, totam
diœcesim lustrávit; rebusque compositis Romam reversus, gravíssimis expediéndis
negotiis applicatus, quod justum erat, apostolica libertáte et constántia
decernebat. Mortuo autem Pio, præter ómnium exspectatiónem electus Pontifex,
nihil in vitæ ratióne, excepto exteriori habitu, immutávit. Fuit in eo religiónis
propagandæ perpétuum studium, in ecclesiástica disciplína restituénda indeféssus
labor, in exstirpandis erróribus assidua vigilantia, in sublevandis egéntium
necessitátibus indeficiens beneficéntia, in Sedis apostolicæ júribus vindicándis
robur invictum.
Selímum Turcárum tyrannum multis elátum victoriis, ingénti comparáta classe, ad
Echínadas ínsulas non tam armis quam fusis ad Deum precibus devicit. Quam
victoriam ea ipsa hora, qua obténta fuit, Deo revelante, cognóvit suisque
familiaribus indicávit. Dum vero novam in ipsos Turcas expeditiónem molirétur, in
gravem morbum incidit; et, acerbíssimis dolóribus patientíssime tolerátis, ad
extrema deveniens, cum sacraménta de more suscepísset, ánimam Deo placidíssime
réddidit, anno millesimo quingentésimo septuagesimo secundo, ætátis suæ sexagesimo
octavo, cum sedísset annos sex, menses tres, dies viginti quatuor. Corpus ejus in
basilica sanctæ Maríæ ad Præsépe summa fidelium veneratióne colitur, multis a Deo
ejus intercessióne patrátis miraculis. Quibus rite probátis, a Cleménte undecimo,
Pontifice máximo, Sanctórum número adscriptus est.
en: >-
Michael Ghislieri afterwards proclaimed Pope under the name of Pius V, was born
at the town of Bosco in the Milanese, but his family was a noble one of Bologna.
At the age of fourteen years he entered the order of Friars Preachers. He was a
man marked by a wonderful long-suffering, a deep lowliness, a great hardness of
living, an unwavering earnestness in prayer, and a most strong zeal for the
perfect observance of the Rule of his Order, and for the greater glory of God. He
gave himself to the study of Philosophy and Theology, and was so learned in both,
that he discharged for many years with great reputation the duties of a Professor
of those sciences. He preached publicly in many places, to the great profit of
his hearers. He long did the work of Inquisitor with unflinching spirit, and
preserved many cities, not without risk to his own life, from the heresy which
was then creeping in everywhere.
Paul IV, to whom his virtues had greatly endeared him, raised him to the united
Bishoprics of Nepi and Sutri, and after two years he was enrolled among the
Cardinal Priests of the Roman Church. Pius IV. translated him to the Church of
Mondovi in Piedmont, wherein, on his coming, he found that many corruptions had
crept in. He reformed the whole of his diocese, and, after settling his affairs,
returned to Rome, where his attention was called to matters of the gravest
business, in determining which he used Apostolic boldness and firmness. After the
death of Pius IV, the fifth Pius, to the astonishment of all men, was elected to
succeed him. On becoming Pope he changed his way of life in no respect except as
regarded his raiment. The Propagation of Religion was to him the object of
unceasing care; the restoration of the Discipline of the Church, of unwearied
toil; the uprooting of error, of sleepless watchfulness; the relieving the needs
of the poor, of unfailing charity; the maintenance of the rights of the Apostolic
See, of adamantine firmness.
The Turkish Sultan Selim was bloated with many victories, and had got together an
huge fleet in the Gulf of Lepanto, but Pius V. crushed him, not so much by force
of arms as by dint of the prayers wherein he pleaded with God. At the hour that
the victory was won, Pius knew it by the inward revelation of God, and stated the
fact to his servants. He was busied with the preparations for a new expedition
against the Turks, when he was laid down by grievous sickness. He bore most sharp
sufferings with the gentlest patience, and when the end came, he received the
Sacraments as is usual, and with great peace yielded his spirit to God, in the
year of salvation 1572, and of his own age the 68th, having sat as Pope six
years, three months, and twenty-four days. His body is buried in the Church of
St. Mary, where the Manger from Bethlehem is, and is there held in great respect
by the faithful, who have obtained from God by his prayers, many evident
miracles. The said miracles having been proved by a judicial investigation Pope
Clement XI enrolled his name among those of the Saints.
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Robert Bellarmine, Bishop,
# Confessor and Doctor of the Church (May 13). Sourced directly from
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-13.txt, English/Sancti/05-13.txt.
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita.
# Nocturn 3: his own Gospel citation ends "Et réliqua"/"And so forth"
# with no full pericope given -- per the bare-incipit convention, only
# the homily (Lectio7-9, Bellarmine's own words on the Doctors of the
# Church) is authored, isGospel: false, no citation field.
id: st-robert-bellarmine
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Robertus, Politianus, e patrícia Bellarminórum gente, matrem pientíssimam hábuit
Cynthiam Cervini, Marcelli Papæ secúndi sorórem. Eximia pietáte et castíssimis
móribus quamprimum enituit, id unum exoptans, ut Deo soli placeret et ánimas
Christo lucrifáceret. Patrium Societátis Jesu collegium summa cum ingenii et
modestiæ laude frequentávit; ac duodeviginti annos natus, Romæ eamdem Societátem
ingréssus, religiosárum virtútum ómnibus exemplo fuit. Emenso in Romano Collegio
philosophíæ curriculo, missus est primum Floréntiam, tum Montem Regalem; deínde
Patavium ad sacram theologíam addiscéndam, ac póstea Lovanium, ubi concionatoris
munere, nondum sacerdos, mirifice functus est. Lovanii præterea, sacerdotio
auctus, theologíam ita docuit, ut plurimos hæreticos ad Ecclésiæ unitátem
reduxerit, ac theologus per Europam claríssimus haberétur, eumque Sanctus Cárolus
Mediolanénsis epíscopus aliique veheménter sibi expéterent.
Romam ex desidério Gregórii Papæ décimi tertii revocatus, theologicam
controversiárum disciplínam trádidit in Collegio Romano: ibique vitæ spiritualis
magister constitútus, angelicum juvenem Aloísium per sanctitátis sémitas
moderátus est. Ipse Collegium Romanum ac deínde Neapolitanam Societátis Jesu
Provinciam ad Sancti Ignatii mentem gubernávit. In Urbem íterum accersítus, a
Cleménte octavo ad summa Ecclésiæ negotia, máximo cum christianæ rei emolumento,
est adhibitus: tum invitus et frustra reluctans, in Cardinalium númerum
cooptátus quia, ut palam asseruit ipse Pontifex, tunc non habebat parem Ecclésia
Dei quod ad doctrinam. Ab eodem Pontifice consecrátus Epíscopus, Capuanam
Archidiœcésim triennium sanctíssime administrávit: quo munere deposito, Romæ ad
mortem usque degit, integerrimus ac fidelíssimus Summi Pontificis consiliarius.
Multa præcláre scripsit, illud meritum adeptus in primis quod, sanctum Thomam
ducem et magistrum secutus, de suórum necessitate témporum próvide cónscius,
invicto doctrinæ róbore et amplíssima testimoniórum copia e Sacris Litteris et e
Sanctórum Patrum ditíssimo fonte apte deprompta novos erróres debellávit,
traditiónis catholicæ et Romani Pontificátus jurium strenuus præprimis adsertor.
Complúribus étiam ad pietátem fovéndam libellis exstat insígnis ac præsertim
aureo catechismo, quem licet aliis gravíssimis negotiis distentus, tum Capuæ tum
Romæ púeros ac rudes docére non prætermittebat. Robertum æquævus Cardinalis a Deo
missum judicávit, qui catholicos erudíret, pios cóleret, hæreticos profligaret;
Sanctus Franciscus Salesius doctrinæ fontem hábuit; Summus Pontifex Benedíctus
décimus quartus hæreticórum malleum dixit, ac Benedíctus décimus quintus
catholicam religiónem propagántibus et tuéntibus exemplar indicávit.
Vitæ religiosæ studiosíssimus, eam, inter purpuratos Patres adlectus, in
exemplum servávit. Opes ultra necessarias nóluit; módico famulatu, ténui cultu
habituque contentus: suórum non studuit opuléntiæ, ac vix adduci pótuit ut
inópiam idéntidem levaret. De se humillime sensit, et mira fuit animi
simplicitate. Deíparam diléxit unice: plures horas quotídie oratióni tribuebat.
Parcíssime víctitans, ter in hebdomada jejunábat: in se constanter austérus,
caritate in próximum flagrávit, vocátus sæpenúmero Pater páuperum. E baptismate
innocéntiam ne vel levi quidem culpa macularet strenue contendit. Prope
octogenarius, ad Sancti Andréæ in Colle Quirinali, extrémum in morbum íncidit,
quem sólito virtútum fulgóre illustrávit. Moribundo Gregórius Papa décimus
quintus et plures Cardinales adstitérunt, tantum Ecclésiæ cólumen éripi
complorantes. Die sacrórum Stígmatum sancti Francisci, quorum memóriæ ubíque
celebrandæ auctor fuerat, obdormívit in Dómino, anno millesimo sexcentésimo
vigesimo primo. Mortuo tota cívitas parentávit, Sanctum uno ore conclámans. Eum
vero Pius undecimus, Pontifex maximus, Beatórum primum ac deínde Sanctórum
número adscripsit, et paulo post, ex Sacrórum Rituum Congregatiónis consulto,
universalis Ecclésiæ Doctórem declarávit. Ejus corpus Romæ in templo Sancti
Ignatii, apud sepúlcrum Sancti Aloísii, ut ipse optarat, pia veneratióne cólitur.
en: >-
Robert, a native of Montepulciano and of the noble family of Bellarmine, had for
his mother the most pious Cynthia Cervini, sister of Pope Marcellus II. From the
first he was conspicuous for exemplary piety and most chaste manners, earnestly
desiring this one thing, to please God alone and to win souls to Christ. He
attended the college of the Society of Jesus in his native town where he was
highly commended for his intelligence and modesty. At the age of eighteen he
entered the same Society at Rome, and was a model of all religious virtues.
Having passed through the course of philosophy at the Roman College, he was sent
first to Florence, then to Monreale, later to Padua to teach sacred theology, and
afterwards to Louvain where, not yet a priest, he ably discharged the office of
preacher. After ordination at Louvain, he taught theology with such success that
he brought back many heretics to the unity of the Church, and was regarded
throughout Europe as a most brilliant theologian; and St. Charles, Bishop of
Milan, and others keenly sought after him.
Recalled to Rome at the wish of Pope Gregory XIII, he taught the science of
controversial theology at the Roman College, and there, as spiritual director he
guided the angelic youth Aloysius in the paths of holiness. He governed the Roman
College and then the Neapolitan province of the Society of Jesus in accordance
with the spirit of St. Ignatius. Again summoned to Rome, he was employed by
Clement VIII in the most important affairs of the Church, with the greatest
advantage to the Christian state; then against his will and in spite of
opposition, he was admitted among the number of the cardinals, because, as the
Pontiff publicly declared, he did not have his equal among theologians in the
Church of God at the time. He was consecrated bishop by the same Pope, and
administered the archdiocese of Capua in a most saintly manner for three years:
having resigned this office, he lived in Rome until his death, as a most
impartial and trusty counsellor to the Supreme Pontiff. He wrote much, and in an
admirable manner. His principal merit lieth in his complete victory in the
struggle against the new errors, during which he distinguished himself as a
strenuous and outstanding vindicator of Catholic tradition and the rights of the
Roman See. He gained this victory by following St. Thomas as his guide and
teacher, by a prudent consideration of the needs of his times, by his
irrefragable teaching, and by a most abundant wealth of testimony well-chosen
from the sacred writings and from the very rich fountain of the Fathers of the
Church. He is eminently noted for very numerous short works for fostering piety,
and especially for that golden Catechism, which he never failed to explain to
the young and ignorant both at Capua and at Rome, although preoccupied with
other very important affairs. A contemporary cardinal declared that Robert was
sent by God for the instruction of Catholics, for the guidance of the good, and
for the confusion of heretics; St. Francis de Sales regarded him as a fountain of
learning; the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XIV called him the hammer of heretics; and
Benedict XV proclaimed him the model of promoters and defenders of the Catholic
religion.
He was most zealous in the religious life and he maintained that manner of life
after having been chosen as one of the empurpled cardinals. He did not want any
wealth beyond what was necessary; he was satisfied with a moderate household, and
scanty fare and clothing. He did not strive to enrich his relatives, and he could
scarcely be induced to relieve their poverty even occasionally. He had the lowest
opinion of himself, and was of wonderful simplicity of soul. He had an
extraordinary love for the Mother of God; he spent many hours daily in prayer. He
ate very sparingly, and fasted three times a week. Uniformly austere with
himself, he burned with charity towards his neighbour, and was often called the
father of the poor. He earnestly strove that he might not stain his baptismal
innocence to even the slightest fault. Almost eighty years old, he fell into his
last illness at St. Andrew's on the Quirinal hill, and in it he shewed his usual
radiant virtue. Pope Gregory XV and many cardinals visited him on his deathbed,
lamenting the loss of such a great pillar of the Church. He fell asleep in the
Lord in the year 1621, on the day of the sacred Stigmata of St. Francis, the
memory of which he had been instrumental in having celebrated everywhere. The
whole city mourned his death, unanimously proclaiming him a Saint. The Supreme
Pontiff Pius XI inscribed his name, first, in the number of the Blessed, and then
in that of the Saints, and shortly afterwards, by a decree of the Sacred
Congregation of Rites, he declared him a Doctor of the universal Church. His body
is honoured with pious veneration at Rome in the church of St. Ignatius, near the
tomb of St. Aloysius, as he himself had desired.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
- nocturn: 3
isGospel: false
source: "St. Robert Bellarmine, Concio 9, de probitate Doctorum Ecclesiae (ab initio)"
text:
la: >-
Quemádmodum in Deo, quem unum in Trinitáte et Trinum in unitate veneramur, tria
quædam singuláriter eminent, poténtia, sapiéntia, bonitas; ita quoque, auditores,
singulares amicos et fílios suos, Patres ac Doctores nostros, Deus, ut sibi quam
simillimos et géntibus ómnibus suspiciéndos atque admirábiles redderet,
potentíssimos, sapientíssimos, optimos sanctissimósque esse vóluit. Primum ea
poténtia eos armávit, qua multa præter sólitum cursum ordinemque natúræ in
elementis, in arbóribus, in brutis animántibus, in ipsis homínibus plane
admirabília et singularia fácerent. Deínde sapiéntia ita mentes eórum instruxit,
ut non solum præséntia et prætérita cernerent, sed étiam futura multo ante
prævidérent atque prædícerent. Postremo dilatávit corda eórum summa atque
ardentíssima caritate, tum ut ipsi magno animo opus aggrederéntur, tum ut ii qui
converténdi per eos erant, non solum verbis et miraculis, sed étiam exemplis et
vitæ probitate moverentur.
Prædicatores ígitur nostræ legis, tam ii qui primi ad nos fidem detulérunt et
Evangélium, quam ii quos deínde singulis sæculis Deus excitávit ad fidem eamdem
confírmandam vel propagandam, quales fúerint, quam pii, quam justi, quam
religiosi totus mundus novit. Aspicite primum Apóstolos. Quid sublimius atque
excellentius móribus Apostolicis? Aspicite deínde sanctos illos hómines, quos
Patres et Doctores vocamus, lúmina illa claríssima, quæ Deus in firmaménto
Ecclésiæ lucére vóluit, ut iis omnes hæreticórum ténebræ, dissiparéntur, ut
Irenæum, Cyprianum, Hilárium, Athanasium, Basilíum, duos Gregórios, Ambrósium,
Hierónymum, Augustínum, Chrysóstomum, Cyríllum. Vita et mores eórum nonne in iis
monuméntis, quæ nobis reliquérunt, quasi in speculis quibusdam elucent? Nam ex
abundántia cordis os lóquitur.
Quanta, óbsecro, apparet in libris Sanctórum Patrum cum summa eruditióne conjuncta
humilitas? Quanta sobrietas? Nihil ibi obscenum, nihil turpe, nihil súbdolum,
nihil arrogans, nihil inflátum. Quam multis modis Spíritus Sanctus, qui eórum
péctora inhabitabat, in páginis eórum se prodit? Quis legere potest atténte
Cyprianum, qui non statim ardeat amóre martyrii? Quis in Augustino diligenter
versátus est, qui non profundíssimam didicerit humilitátem? Quis Hieronymum sæpe
evolvit, qui non virginitátem et jejunium adamare incipiat? Spirant scripta
Sanctórum religiónem, castitátem, integritátem, caritátem. Isti sunt ígitur
epíscopi et pastores (ut verbis utar divi Augustíni) docti, graves, sancti,
veritátis acerrimi defensores, qui catholicam fidem in lacte suxérunt, in cibo
sumpsérunt: cujus lac et cibum parvis magnisque ministravérunt. Tálibus post
Apóstolos sancta Ecclésia plantatóribus, rigatóribus, ædificatóribus, pastóribus,
nutritóribus crevit.
en: >-
Just as in God, whom we venerate as one in the Trinity and three in the Unity,
there are three things in particular which are especially clear: power, wisdom,
and goodness; so also God, beloved listeners, that he might make his special
friends and children, our fathers and teachers, very like unto himself and to be
esteemed and admired by all nations, wished them to be in the highest degree
powerful, wise, excellent, and holy. First, he furnished them with that power, by
which they might do many evidently wonderful and extraordinary things, out of
the usual course and order of nature, in regard to the elements, trees, brute
beasts, and even to mankind. Then, he gave them such wisdom, that they saw not
only the past and present, but they even foresaw the future long before, and
predicted it. Finally, he enlarged their hearts with very great and burning
charity, enabling them not only to enter whole-heartedly on their labours, but
also to influence those whom they were about to convert, as well by their
example and holy life, as by their preaching and miracles.
And so, the whole world knew how pious, how just, how religious were the
preachers of our law, both those who first brought to us the faith and the
Gospel, and those whom God thereafter stirred up in every age to confirm or
propagate that same faith. And first, consider the Apostles. What could be
better or more sublime than the Apostles' way of life? Next, consider those holy
men whom we call Fathers and Doctors, those most shining lights which God hath
ordained should shine in the firmament of the Church, that all the darkness of
heresy might be dispersed, such as Irenaeus, Cyprian, Hilary, Athanasius, Basil,
the two Gregories, Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Chrysostom, and Cyril. Do not
their lives and conduct shine forth in the records, which they have left us, as
in a special kind of mirror? For out of the fulness of the heart the mouth
speaketh.
Consider, I ask you, the humility, together with the most profound learning,
which appeareth in the books of the holy fathers. What moderation! Nothing
offensive there, nothing unseemly, no cunning, nothing assuming, nothing
pompous. How the manifold working of the Holy Spirit, who dwelt in their hearts,
revealeth itself in their pages! Who can read Cyprian attentively without
immediately longing for martyrdom? Who can assiduously turn over the pages of
Augustine without learning the most profound humility? Who can open Jerome
frequently without beginning to love virginity and fasting? The writings of the
saints breathe forth religion, chastity, integrity, and charity. Such then are
our bishops and pastors (to use the words of the heavenly Augustine), learned
men, eminent, holy, intelligent, defenders of the truth, who have taken in the
Catholic faith as their milk, and have consumed it as food: and this milk and
food they have ministered to great and small. Since the Apostles, holy Church
hath flourished by such planters, waterers, builders, shepherds, and nurses.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Venantius, Martyr (May 18). Sourced
# directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-18.txt,
# English/Sancti/05-18.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous account of the martyrdom. No Lectio7-9 in his own file
# (his `[Rule]` is `vide C2a`) -- defers to the Common of a Martyr's
# own Nocturn 3, not transcribed here.
id: st-venantius
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Venantius Camers, quindecim annos natus, cum christianæ religiónis accusarétur
apud Antíochum, qui sub Decio imperatóre Camerino præerat, in porta civitátis
præsidi se obtulit. Quem ille pollicitatiónibus ac terróribus diu tentátum,
flagris cædi et vinculis astringi jussit; sed is mirabíliter ab Angelo solutus,
lampadibus póstea aduritur, atque inverso ore, fumo supposito, suspénditur. Ejus
constantiam in tormentis demirátus Anastasius Cornicularius, et quod eum ab
Angelo íterum solutum cándida veste supra fumum ambulántem vidísset, in Christum
credidit; et a beato Porphyrio presbytero cum família baptizatus, paulo post
martyrii palmam cum eodem promeruit.
At Venantius præsidi sistitur, et ab eo íterum frustra tentátus ut Christi fidem
deséreret, in carcerem conjícitur; quo Attalus præco mittitur, qui ei dicat se
quoque christianum fuísse et ei nómini proptérea renuntiásse, quod cognovísset
inane esse fidei comméntum, quo Christiáni præséntibus se ábdicant ob vanam
futurórum spem. Verum nobilis Christi athleta, callidi hostis insidias non
ignorans, diaboli ministrum a se pénitus rejécit. Quare ad præsidem íterum
adducto omnes contusi sunt dentes maxillæque confractæ; atque, ita cæsus, in
sterquilinium dejícitur. Sed inde ab Angelo quoque ereptus, rursus stetit ante
judicem; qui, Venantio adhuc loquente, e tribunali cécidit, et in ea voce, Verus
est Venantii Deus, nostros deos destrúite, exclámans exspirávit.
Quod cum præsidi nuntiátum esset, extemplo Venántium leónibus óbjici jussit;
qui, naturali feritáte omissa, ad ejus se pedes abjecérunt. Interim ille pópulum
Christi fidem edocébat. Quare inde amotus, íterum in carcerem traditur. Cumque
postridie præsidi referret Porphyrius, se per visum noctu pópulos, quos
Venantius aqua tingebat, claríssima luce fulgéntes, ipsum vero præsidem
obscuríssima caligine operátum vidisse; præses, ira incénsus, eum illico cápite
plecti imperat, deínde Venántium per loca vépribus et cárduis cónsita trahi
usque ad vésperam. Is, cum semiánimis relíctus esset, mane se íterum præsidi
præsentávit; cujus jussu statim e rupe præcipitátur. Sed inde étiam divinitus
ereptus, denuo per loca aspera ad mille passus trahitur; ubi, milítibus siti
æstuántibus, in próxima convalle, ex lápide, in quo et genuum formam relíquit,
sicut étiam nunc in ejus ecclésia vidére licet, crucis signo a Venantio facto,
aquæ manarunt. Eo miraculo plures permoti in Christum credidérunt, quos omnes
præses eo loci una cum Venantio cápite feriri jussit. Fulgura et terræmotus eo
témpore ita magni fuére, ut præses aufugeret; qui paucis tamen post diébus,
divinam haud valens effugere justítiam, turpíssimam mortem oppétiit. Christiáni
interim Venantii et aliórum córpora honorifico loco sepeliérunt: quæ Camerini, in
ecclésia Venantio dicata, cóndita adhuc sunt.
en: >-
Venantius was a lad of Camerino (in the neighbourhood of Ancona,) who at fifteen
years of age was accused of Christianity before Antiochus, Praefect of Camerino
under the Emperor Decius. Venantius therefore appeared before Antiochus at the
gate of the city, and when the Praefect had striven with him for a long while,
by promises and threats, he commanded him to be scourged and thrown into irons,
but an Angel loosed his bonds. He was afterwards scarified with lamps, and hung
head downwards in smoke. Anastasius the trumpeter was amazed at his hardiness
under suffering, and when it appeared to him that the Martyr was a second time
loosed by an Angel, and was walking in white raiment on the smoke, he believed
in Christ, and was baptized, with all his house, by the blessed Priest
Porphyry, and a little while after they both together earned the palm of
martyrdom.
Now Venantius stood before the Praefect, and when he had again vainly tempted
him to give up his faith in Christ, he cast him into prison, and sent unto him
Attalus the crier. Attalus told him how that he also had been a Christian, but
had denied that name, seeing it was a foolish faith which made Christians to
throw away things present for a groundless hope of things to come. But Christ's
brave champion, well knowing the wiles of our subtle enemy, drove the devil's
servant from his presence. When he appeared again before the Praefect, his
teeth and jaws were broken, and so mangled he was cast out upon a dunghill. But
thence also an Angel delivered him, and he stood again before the judge. And
there while Venantius was yet speaking, the judge fell from off the
judgment-seat, and when he had cried with a loud voice, "Venantius, his God is
true, take away our gods," he died.
Then they told the President of it, he commanded Venantius to be straightway
thrown to the lions. But the beasts were not wild to him, and lay down at his
feet. And meanwhile he taught the Christian faith to the people. So they took
him away from thence and cast him once more into prison. The next day Porphyry
came to the President, and told him how that he had seen in a vision of the
night Venantius sprinkling certain ones with water, and they that were sprinkled
shone with a marvellous light, and the President himself hidden in deep
darkness. Then the President was moved to great anger and commanded forthwith
to behead Porphyry. As for Venantius, he bade them drag him about in rough
places, full of briars and thistles, until the evening. When it was over, he
was left half dead, but in the morning he stood for the last time before the
President, who commanded to cast him down from a steep rock. It pleased God
that this should not kill him, and he was haled again through rough places for
about a mile. There the soldiers were athirst, and Venantius, by the sign of the
Cross, made waters to flow from a stone in a gulley hard by. This is that stone
whereon also he left the imprint of his knees, and which can be seen to this day
in his Church. By this wonder many were moved to believe in Christ and the
President commanded them all, and Venantius with them, to be beheaded in the
same place where they were. When it was done there were great lightnings and
earthquakes, so that the President fled, but he could not fly from the judgment
of God, and but a few days thereafter he died a most shameful death. Meanwhile
the Christians took the bodies of Venantius and the others, and buried them in
an honourable place, wherein they lie to this day, under the Church at Camerino
which is dedicated to Venantius.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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@@ -11,13 +11,16 @@ describe('getDayLabel — ordinal temporal label', () => {
});
it('names the anchor day itself, not "day after itself"', () => {
// Trinity Sunday no longer carries a sanctoral commemoration of its
// own (St. Felix I, May 30, is now commemorated in place on his own
// day within Pentecost's octave instead of transferring here — see
// calendar/octaves.ts and tests/calendar/transfer.test.ts), so this
// is back to a plain temporal label; the "feast — temporal" combined
// form is covered separately below with synthetic data.
expect(getDayLabel(resolveDay('2026-05-31'))).toBe('Trinity Sunday');
// Trinity Sunday 2026 (May 31) is now also the Queenship of the
// Blessed Virgin Mary's own fixed day (Duplex II Classis, added per
// the full-year sanctoral import) — since this app models Trinitytide
// Sundays as plain `ordinary-sunday` with no special first-class
// standing of their own, the Duplex+ sanctoral feast wins outright
// here per the normal ordinary-Sunday rule (see
// tests/calendar/transfer.test.ts's own May 31 case for the full
// winner/commemorations breakdown), so the label now reflects her,
// not Trinity Sunday itself.
expect(getDayLabel(resolveDay('2026-05-31'))).toBe('The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary');
expect(getDayLabel(resolveDay('2026-04-05'))).toBe('Easter');
expect(getDayLabel(resolveDay('2026-02-18'))).toBe('Ash Wednesday');
});
@@ -40,7 +43,11 @@ describe('getDayLabel — ordinal temporal label', () => {
});
it('falls back to weekday + season name for seasons with no ordinal convention modeled', () => {
expect(getDayLabel(resolveDay('2026-05-15'))).toContain('in Ascensiontide');
// 2026-05-15 is now St. John Baptist de la Salle's own fixed day
// (Duplex, added per the full-year sanctoral import) -- moved to
// May 21, still within Ascensiontide 2026 (May 14-23) and still
// free of any sanctoral entry.
expect(getDayLabel(resolveDay('2026-05-21'))).toContain('in Ascensiontide');
});
});
@@ -99,7 +106,14 @@ describe('getDayLabel — active octave', () => {
});
it("a season's own named anchor day outranks an active octave, even though Trinity Sunday is technically also day 8 of Pentecost's own octave", () => {
expect(getDayLabel(resolveDay('2026-05-31'))).toBe('Trinity Sunday');
// Not 2026 (May 31): that year's Trinity Sunday now coincides with the
// Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary's own fixed day (Duplex II
// Classis, added per the full-year sanctoral import), which wins
// outright and would muddy this specifically octave-vs-anchor-day
// check (see tests/calendar/transfer.test.ts's own May 31 case for
// that). 2023's Trinity Sunday (June 4) has no sanctoral entry at all,
// isolating the octave interaction cleanly.
expect(getDayLabel(resolveDay('2023-06-04'))).toBe('Trinity Sunday');
});
it("a temporal day with real standing of its own (not ordinary-feria) never shows an octave name at all, even with one active -- live-verified counterexample: the Christmas Octave's own stack (Dec 30) titles itself off the Sunday, never any of the four octaves layered on top of it", () => {
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@@ -77,11 +77,23 @@ describe('transfer mechanism (resolveDay integration)', () => {
{ kind: 'octave', id: 'pentecost-sunday', name: 'Pentecost' },
]);
// Felix doesn't reach Trinity Sunday at all now -- but Trinity Sunday
// is day 8 of Pentecost's own 8-day octave (the default length, not
// yet independently confirmed to be right for Pentecost specifically),
// so Pentecost's own octave commemoration still persists here.
expect(sunday.winner).toEqual({ kind: 'temporal', id: 'post-pentecost-01' });
expect(sunday.commemorations).toEqual([{ kind: 'octave', id: 'pentecost-sunday', name: 'Pentecost' }]);
// Felix doesn't reach Trinity Sunday at all now. Trinity Sunday 2026
// (May 31) is also the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary's own
// fixed day (Duplex II Classis) -- since this app models Trinitytide
// Sundays as plain `ordinary-sunday` (no special first-class standing
// of their own, see temporal-categories.yml), a Duplex+ sanctoral
// feast wins outright here per the normal ordinary-Sunday rule, with
// both the day's own temporal id and Pentecost's octave commemorated
// in return.
expect(sunday.winner).toEqual({
kind: 'sanctoral',
id: 'queenship-of-the-bvm',
name: 'The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary',
rank: 'duplex-2-classis',
});
expect(sunday.commemorations).toEqual([
{ kind: 'temporal', id: 'post-pentecost-01' },
{ kind: 'octave', id: 'pentecost-sunday', name: 'Pentecost' },
]);
});
});