Add April Matins readings for pre-1955 sanctoral saints

Sts. Francis of Paola, Anicetus, and Soter and Caius. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Francis of Paola, Confessor (Apr 2) —
+# pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/04-02*.txt at all).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/04-02.txt, English/Sancti/04-02.txt.
+# Lectio4-6 is this saint's own proper text, one continuous vita account,
+# no internal break, combined into a single reading; Lectio7-9 are
+# Common-of-a-Confessor (skipped). No responsory given in the source.
+id: st-francis-of-paola
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Francíscus Paulæ, quod est Calábriæ óppidum, loco húmili natus est; quem paréntes, cum diu
+        prole caruíssent, voto facto, beáti Francísci précibus suscepérunt. Is adoléscens divíno
+        ardóre succénsus in erémum secéssit, ubi annis sex, victu ásperam, sed meditatiónibus
+        cæléstibus suávem vitam duxit. Sed cum virtútum ejus fama lóngius manáret, multíque ad eum
+        pietátis stúdio concúrrerent, fratérnæ caritátis causa e solitúdine egréssus, ecclésiam
+        prope Paulam ædificávit, ibíque prima sui órdinis fundaménta jecit.
+
+
+        Erat in eo mirífica loquéndi grátia: perpétuam virginitátem servávit: humilitátem sic cóluit,
+        ut se ómnium mínimum díceret, suósque alúmnos Mínimos appellári volúerit. Rudi amíctu, nudis
+        pédibus incédens, humi cubábat. Cibi abstinéntia fuit admirábili: semel in die post solis
+        occásum reficiebátur, et ad panem, et aquæ potum, vix áliquid ejusmodi obsónii adhibébat,
+        quo vesci in Quadragésima licet: quam consuetúdinem, ut fratres sui toto anni témpore
+        retinérent, quarto eos voto adstrínxit.
+
+
+        Multis miráculis servi sui sanctitátem Deus testári vóluit, quorum illud in primis célebre,
+        quod a nautis rejéctus, Sicíliæ fretum strato super flúctibus pállio cum sócio transmísit.
+        Multa étiam futúra prophético spíritu prædíxit. A Ludovíco undécimo Francórum rege expetítus,
+        magnóque in honóre est hábitus. Dénique annum primum et nonagésimum agens, Turónis migrávit
+        ad Dominum: cujus corpus dies úndecim insepúltum, ita incorrúptum permánsit, ut suávem étiam
+        odórem effláret. Eum Leo Papa décimus in Sanctórum númerum rétulit.
+      en: >-
+        This Francis was born of humble parents at Paola, a town in Calabria. His parents, who had
+        long been childless, obtained him, after making a vow, by the prayers of blessed Francis.
+        While he was yet a lad, the love of God moved him to withdraw into a desert place, where he
+        lived for six years, hardly as to the body, but sumptuously in meditation on things
+        heavenly. Nevertheless, when the fame of his holy life was noised abroad, and many betook
+        themselves to him, that they might learn godliness, he was drawn out of the desert by love
+        to his neighbour, and built a church near Paola, wherein he laid the first foundations of
+        his Order.
+
+
+        In his words there was a wonderful charm; he kept his virginity always inviolate; he was so
+        great a lover of lowliness that he used to call himself the last of all, and would that his
+        disciples should be called the Minimi, which is, being interpreted, the Least of the
+        brethren. His raiment was coarse; he went always bare-footed; and he slept on the ground.
+        The extreme smallness of the amount of food which he took was extraordinary. He ate only
+        once a day, and that after sunset. Then he took only bread and water, with scarcely any of
+        such condiment as is allowed in Lent. He bound his disciples by a fourth vow, added to those
+        of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience, to observe the same rule of eating as himself.
+
+
+        It was the will of God to make the holiness of His servant manifest by many miracles. The
+        most notorious of these is that on one occasion when some seamen refused to take him over
+        the Straits of Messina, he spread his cloak upon the sea, and crossed over on it with his
+        companion. In the spirit of prophecy he foretold many things to come. Louis XI, King of
+        France, held him in great worship, and bade him to his court. At last, at Tours, in the
+        ninety-first year of his age, he departed hence to be ever with the Lord: his body remained
+        unburied for eleven days after his death, but it not only showed no signs of corruption but
+        even gave forth a sweet savour. Pope Leo X caused him to be numbered among the Saints.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }