From d66740b1d0984abbb2503d1e055284aed8236ebd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Estes Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:12:07 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add October Matins readings for pre-1955 sanctoral saints St. Dionysius and Companions, and St. Evaristus. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 --- .../ss-dionysius-and-companions.yml | 65 +++++++++++++++++++ .../propers/nocturn-readings/st-evaristus.yml | 28 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 93 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-dionysius-and-companions.yml create mode 100644 src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-evaristus.yml diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-dionysius-and-companions.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-dionysius-and-companions.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c48cee9 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-dionysius-and-companions.yml @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Dionysius, Bishop, and Companions, +# Martyrs (Oct 9) — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/10-09.txt is a +# different, later saint (St. John Leonardi, canonized 1938) who +# displaced Dionysius on the general calendar's own Oct 9 slot; his +# content survives at the suffixed sibling file (see memory +# vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle"). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-09t.txt, English/Sancti/10-09t.txt. +# Lectio4-6 is this saint's own proper text, one continuous vita +# account, no internal break, combined into a single reading. No +# responsory given. +id: ss-dionysius-and-companions +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Dionysius Atheniensis, unus ex Areopagitis judicibus, vir fuit omni doctrinæ genere + instinctus. Qui cum adhuc in Gentilitatis errore versaretur, eo die quo Christus Dominus + cruci affixus est, solem præter naturam defecisse animadvertens, exclamasse traditur: Aut + Deus naturæ patitur, aut mundi machina dissolvetur. Sed cum Paulus Apostolus veniens Athenas, + et in Areopagum ductus, rationem reddidisset ejus doctrinæ quam prædicabat, affirmans + Christum Dominum resurrexisse, et mortuos omnes in vitam redituros esse: cum alii multi, tum + ipse Dionysius in Christum credidit. + + + Itaque et baptizatus est ab Apostolo, et Atheniensium ecclesiæ præfectus. Qui cum postea + Romam venisset, a Clemente Pontifice missus est in Galliam prædicandi Evangelii causa. Quem + Lutétiam usque Parisiorum Rusticus presbyter, et Eleutherius diaconus prosecuti sunt: ubi a + Fescennio præfecto, quod multos ad christianam religionem convertisset, ipse cum sociis + virgis cæsus est: cumque in prædicatione christianæ fidei constantissime perseveraret, in + craticulam subjecto igne injicitur, multisque præterea suppliciis una cum sociis cruciatur. + + + Sed ea tormentorum genera omnibus forti ac libenti animo perferentibus Dionysius annum agens + supra centesimum, cum reliquis securi percutitur septimo Idus Octobris. De quo illud memoriæ + proditum est, abscissum suum caput sustulisse, et progressum ad duo millia passuum in manibus + gestasse. Libros scripsit admirabiles, ac plane cælestes, de divinis nominibus, de cælesti et + ecclesiastica hierarchia, de mystica theologia, et alios quosdam. + en: >- + Denis was an Athenian, one of the Judges of the Court of the Areopagus, and a man of varied + and deep learning. There is a story concerning him that on the day when the Lord Christ was + nailed to the Cross, and when he saw the unnatural eclipse of the sun, Denis said: Either the + God of nature is suffering, or the frame-work of the world is breaking up. When the Apostle + Paul came to Athens, and was taken and brought unto the Areopagus, and gave an account of the + faith which he preached, affirming that Christ had risen from the dead, and that all the dead + likewise are to live again, some mocked, and others said: We will hear thee again of this + matter. So Paul departed from among them. Howbeit, certain men clave unto him, and believed; + among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite. + + + Denis was baptized by the Apostle, and set over the Church of the Athenians. He came + afterwards to Rome, and was sent by Pope Clement into Gaul, to preach the Gospel. There + followed him to Paris one Rusticus a Priest, and Eleutherius a Deacon. He turned many to + Christ, and was therefore beaten with rods by command of Fescennius the Prefect, and, + forasmuch as he still went on bravely preaching Christ, he was tortured with fire upon a + grating, and put to diverse other torments, and his comrades likewise. + + + They bore their torments bravely and cheerfully, and then Denis, being over an hundred years + of age, and his two comrades with him, suffered by the axe. This is that Denis concerning + whom the old story is told that after his head was cut off he took it in his hands and + walked two thousand paces, carrying it all the while. He was the author of some marvellous + books, clear proofs of a mind fixed in heaven, upon The Names of God, upon The Orders in + Heaven and in the Church, upon The Mystic Theology, and diverse others. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-evaristus.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-evaristus.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b03ebf0 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-evaristus.yml @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Evaristus, Pope and Martyr (Oct 26) — +# pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/10-26*.txt at all). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-26.txt, English/Sancti/10-26.txt. Single +# lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source. +id: st-evaristus +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Evarístus, Græcus, ex Judæo patre, Trajano imperatóre, pontificátum gessit. Qui ecclesiárum + titulos urbis Romæ presbyteris divísit, et ordinávit ut septem diáconi episcopum custodírent + dum evangelicæ prædicatiónis officio fungerétur. Idem constítuit, ex traditióne apostolica, + ut matrimónium publice celebrétur et sacerdotis benedíctio adhibeátur. Præfuit Ecclésiæ annos + novem, menses tres, presbyteris decem et septem, diáconis duobus, epíscopis quindecim, quater + mense Decembri, ordinatis. Martyrio coronátus, prope sepúlcrum Principis Apostolórum in + Vaticano sepúltus est septimo Kalendas Novembris. + en: >- + Evaristus was by birth a Greek Jew, and held the Popedom in the reign of the Emperor Trajan. + He it was who divided among the Priests the titles of the Churches in the city of Rome, and + commanded that seven Deacons should attend the Bishop when he was executing his office of + Gospel preaching. He it was who commanded, in accordance with the tradition of the Apostles, + that marriages should be celebrated openly, and that a Priest should be asked to invoke a + blessing thereon. He ruled the Church for nine years and three months. He held four + Ordinations in the month of December, wherein he ordained seventeen Priests, two Deacons, + and fifteen Bishops. Having finished his testimony, he was buried upon the Vatican, hard by + the grave of the Prince of the Apostles, upon the 26th day of October. + status: { la: verified, en: verified }