Add October Matins readings for pre-1955 sanctoral saints

St. Dionysius and Companions, and St. Evaristus. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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+# 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 }