Update TODO.md for Matins psalmody overrides pass

Records the nine-category/three-alias progress, the votive-parameter
dead end for Matins nocturn psalmody, and the specific blockers found
for each of the eight still-open Common categories.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PhysogLP9eCeKS7JEwRi6y

TODO.md

@@ -94,13 +94,20 @@ across every hour and content type in this app.
      `src/data/scripture/` — long-term project, explicitly deferred; Matins scripture
      citations resolve to `missing` text until it lands.
    - Matins psalmody overrides for a Duplex+ weekday feast (see "Matins psalmody overrides"
-     below): mechanism refactored to category-keyed (`categories/*.yml` + `saints/*.yml`), five
-     categories authored (Common of a Martyr via St. Lawrence, Common of an Apostle via St.
-     Andrew, Common of a Confessor via St. Francis of Paola, Common of a Confessor-Bishop via
-     St. Basil the Great, Common of Several Martyrs — the largest single category by population,
-     40 saints/groups — via Ss. Fabian and Sebastian). Every other Common category (Virgin,
-     Doctor, Abbot, etc.) still falls back to the plain ferial weekday table, redistributed into
-     3 nocturns, until its own category's real psalmody is authored.
+     below): mechanism refactored to category-keyed (`categories/*.yml` + `saints/*.yml`), now
+     nine categories authored plus three genuine alias redirects (2026-08-27 pass, see "Matins
+     psalmody overrides — nine more categories" below): Martyr, Apostle (+ alias
+     Common-of-Apostles-plural), Confessor (+ aliases Common-of-an-Abbot and
+     Common-of-a-Confessor-not-Bishop), Confessor-Bishop, Several Martyrs, Virgin-Martyr, the
+     BVM, and a Dedication. Still open, with specific blockers found this pass (privileged-feria/
+     movable-feast collisions or calendar-track absences that ruled out the obvious
+     representative saint — see that section for detail rather than re-deriving): Virgin (plain,
+     not Virgin-Martyr), Widow, Confessor-Doctor, Confessor-Pope, Evangelist (partial data
+     pulled — a different full-psalm-per-nocturn structure than every other category here, needs
+     its own extraction pass), Holy-Woman (partial data pulled, needs a clean re-verify), an
+     Angel (not on the Monastic 1617 calendar on its expected date at all), Several Women
+     Martyrs, Several Confessors — all still fall back to the plain ferial weekday table,
+     redistributed into 3 nocturns.
    - The four "Commemoratio Octavæ" Ant+V/R+collect blocks (Christmas Octave's own
      Nativity/Stephen/John/Holy-Innocents commemorations, e.g. on Dec 30) are now done —
      see "Octave content" below. St. Frances of Rome's/
@@ -2898,6 +2905,87 @@ unauthored — 2029-01-17, confirmed clean). `npm test` (471 tests), `tsc --noEm
 Virgin-Martyr [17], Abbot [16], Holy Woman [3], Widow [6], Angel [5], Evangelist [3], and the
 smaller one-off Commons — none has a category file yet.
 
+### Matins psalmody overrides — nine more categories, three genuine alias redirects (2026-08-27)
+
+Continued the category-keyed `matins-psalmody-overrides` sweep past the five already-authored
+categories (Martyr, Apostle, Confessor, Confessor-Bishop, Several Martyrs). Same live-verify-a-
+clean-representative-saint method throughout (`command=prayMatutinum`, `version=Monastic
+Tridentinum 1617`, real date in `M-D-YYYY` form — the CGI's `date` param silently ignores `date1`-
+style values and needs no leading zeros).
+
+**Two mechanism findings worth recording**, both discovered the hard way this pass:
+
+- The CGI's `votive=CN` parameter (documented in `horas.dialog`'s own `[votives]`/`[communes]`
+  index, e.g. `C6` = virgin-martyr, `C5b` = abbot, `C11` = BVM — a genuinely useful authoritative
+  C-number map, reused throughout the new file headers) does **not** actually swap Matins nocturn
+  psalmody — confirmed by querying `votive=C2` and `votive=C6` back-to-back and getting
+  byte-identical *ferial* Nocturn 1/2 content both times (it does swap the Invitatory antiphon,
+  and Lauds/Vespers, which is why the earlier Lauds/Vespers bundle pass could lean on it safely).
+  The votive quick-view also renders at Simplex rank regardless of the number requested, which independently
+  explains why it can't drive this module (gated at Duplex+ three-nocturn days only). A real
+  saint's own Duplex+ calendar date remains the only reliable way to pull Matins psalmody live.
+- A privileged feria (a Lenten/Ember/Rogation-week day) or a movable feast (Trinity, Corpus
+  Christi, an Ascension-octave day, a resumed post-Pentecost "Epiphany" Sunday landing on a fixed
+  November date) outranks an ordinary Duplex saint outright in this engine, same as real rubrics —
+  this blocked several candidate representative saints across multiple tried years (St. Albert the
+  Great, St. Gertrude, St. Robert Bellarmine, St. John Damascene, St. Pius V, St. Pius X, Ss.
+  Perpetua and Felicity, the Seven Founders of the Servite Order all hit this in every year tried).
+  Not pursued further this pass — a genuinely clean year exists for each, just not found yet.
+
+**Nine categories authored** (new `categories/*.yml` files, each with its own live-verified
+psalms/antiphons/versicles/canticle-refs, full provenance in its own header):
+
+- `common-of-a-virgin-martyr` — St. Justina (2026-10-07, Duplex, `propers: null`). Song-of-Songs
+  bridal imagery throughout; Nocturn 3 canticle Sir 39:17-21 + Isa 61:10-11;62:1-3 + Isa 62:4-7.
+- `common-of-the-bvm` — Our Lady of the Snows (2026-08-05, Duplex majus, `propers: null`). Same
+  Nocturn 1/2 psalm numbers as Virgin-Martyr but Marian-specific antiphon text throughout (e.g.
+  "Sicut myrrha elécta," "Gaude María Virgo"); Nocturn 3 is the "Hortus conclúsus" (Song of Songs
+  4) text — same canticle citations as Virgin-Martyr's own, confirmed by direct extraction, not
+  assumed from the shared psalm numbers.
+- `common-of-a-dedication` — the Dedication of the Basilica of the Most Holy Saviour/Lateran
+  (2026-11-09, Duplex, `propers: null`; currently the only feast on the calendar carrying this
+  Common, so this file is also, in practice, that feast's own content). Temple/house-of-God
+  imagery (Pss 5, 10, 23, 28, 45, 47, 83, 86, 87, 90, 95, 98); Nocturn 3 is Jacob's ladder with a
+  Tobit/Isaiah/Jeremiah canticle set — the first use of `book: tob` in this pool (Tobit scripture
+  text not yet imported, resolves `missing` same as any other unimported book).
+
+**Three genuine full-redirect aliases** added to already-authored category files, live-verified
+byte-identical (psalms, antiphons, AND versicles, not just the psalm-number-only overlap already
+known between Confessor and Confessor-Bishop):
+
+- `common-of-a-confessor.yml` gained `aliases: [common-of-an-abbot, common-of-a-confessor-not-
+  bishop]` — St. Maurus (2026-01-15, Duplex II. classis) and St. Gall (2026-10-16, Duplex) for
+  Abbot; St. Francis of Assisi (2026-10-04, Duplex) and St. Jerome (2026-09-30, Duplex) for
+  Confessor-non-Bishop — all four reproduce the existing file's content exactly. (Reference votive
+  numbers C5/C5b both point to the same scheme per `horas.dialog`, consistent with this finding.)
+- `common-of-an-apostle.yml` gained `aliases: [common-of-apostles]` (vu's separate id for
+  multi-Apostle feasts) — the Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul (2026-07-06, Duplex) reproduces the
+  existing file's content exactly (reference votive `C1` covers both singular and plural).
+
+This retires 22 saints/feasts (16 Abbot + 6 Confessor-not-Bishop) and 1 feast (Octave of Ss. Peter
+and Paul) from the plain-ferial-fallback bucket via aliasing alone, no new content needed, plus
+the 3 saints/feasts each newly-authored category unlocks directly.
+
+`tests/hours/matins.test.ts`'s ferial-fallback proof used St. Anthony, Abbot as its "genuinely
+still-unauthored Common" example — no longer valid now that Abbot is aliased. Swapped to St.
+Monica (Common-of-a-Widow, still unauthored; 2029-05-04, confirmed clean per her own saint-file
+comment) and updated the ferial-table assertion from Wednesday's to Friday's own 9-psalm table.
+`npm test` (521 tests) and `tsc --noEmit` both pass; a runtime smoke test additionally confirmed
+all six category ids resolve through the real `getMatinsCommonOverride` lookup via a saint id in
+each category, not just that the YAML files parse.
+
+**Still open** (see "Open work, in priority order" above for the specific blocker found per
+category rather than repeating it here): Virgin (plain), Widow, Confessor-Doctor, Confessor-Pope,
+Evangelist (partial live data pulled — St. Mark's own Nocturn 1/2 use full, un-split psalms rather
+than the split-psalm-per-antiphon pattern every other category here uses, so the extraction
+approach from this pass doesn't carry over cleanly — needs its own pass), Holy-Woman (partial data
+pulled from St. Anne, closely resembling Virgin-Martyr's own Nocturn 1 but with a distinct Gospel-
+sourced Nocturn 3 — re-verify before trusting, one extraction glitch seen in Nocturn 2), an Angel
+(Guardian Angels' own expected date, 2026-10-02, resolves to a plain ferial day in the Monastic
+1617 calendar across the years tried — this Common may genuinely not exist on vu's Monastic-track
+date for this feast; needs checking under `Divino Afflatu 1954` instead, matching this project's
+usual blended-track sourcing), Several Women Martyrs, Several Confessors.
+
 ### Lauds/Vespers chapter-responsory-hymn-versicle bundle: rank-agnostic Common fallback (2026-08-25)
 
 **Bug fixed**: St. Louis (2026-08-25, `common-of-a-confessor-not-bishop`, Simplex, wins

src/data/hours/matins-psalmody-overrides/categories/common-of-a-confessor.yml

@@ -16,7 +16,19 @@
 # redirect) because the versicles are a real, if small, difference —
 # `common-of-a-confessor-bishop.yml` is its own full file, duplicating
 # these same psalm/antiphon groups with its own versicles.
+#
+# `aliases` also registers `common-of-an-abbot` and
+# `common-of-a-confessor-not-bishop` under this same scheme (2026-08),
+# live-verified as a genuine full redirect (psalms, antiphons, AND
+# versicles all byte-identical, unlike the Bishop case above): St. Maurus
+# (2026-01-15, Duplex II. classis) and St. Gall (2026-10-16, Duplex) for
+# Abbot; St. Francis of Assisi (2026-10-04, Duplex) and St. Jerome
+# (2026-09-30, Duplex) for Confessor-non-Bishop — all four reproduce this
+# file's content exactly, confirming vu's own separately-named ids
+# collapse to one Matins scheme in the reference engine (Reference votive
+# numbers C5/C5b both point here per `horas.dialog`'s `[votives]` index).
 id: common-of-a-confessor
+aliases: [common-of-an-abbot, common-of-a-confessor-not-bishop]
 nocturn1:
   groups:
     - psalms: [1]

src/data/hours/matins-psalmody-overrides/categories/common-of-a-dedication.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+# Generic Common-of-a-Dedication Matins psalmody, live-verified against
+# Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617, command=prayMatutinum,
+# 2026-11-09 -- the Dedication of the Basilica of the Most Holy Saviour
+# (the Lateran), `propers: null` in her own vu file, so this is genuinely
+# this category's generic scheme, not proper content). Rank Duplex,
+# clears the Duplex+ three-nocturn gate. Currently only one saint/feast
+# on the vu calendar uses this Common, so this file is both the category
+# default and, in practice, this feast's own content.
+#
+# Reference-engine votive number: C8 ("Dedicationis Ecclesiae"), per
+# `horas.dialog`'s own `[votives]` index (see `common-of-a-virgin-
+# martyr.yml`'s header for why `votive=` isn't itself usable live for
+# Matins psalmody).
+#
+# All six Nocturn 1/2 antiphons are temple/house-of-God imagery (drawn
+# from Pss 5, 10, 23, 28, 45, 47, 83, 86, 87, 90, 95, 98); Nocturn 3 is
+# Jacob's ladder ("Vidit Jacob scalam") with a canticle set from Tobit,
+# Isaiah, and Jeremiah -- distinct scripture from every other Common in
+# this pool.
+id: common-of-a-dedication
+nocturn1:
+  groups:
+    - psalms: [5]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Introíbo * in domum tuam, Dómine, † et adorábo ad templum sanctum tuum."
+        en: "I will come into thy house, O Lord; * and I will worship towards thy holy temple."
+    - psalms: [10]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Dóminus * in templo sancto suo, † Dóminus in cælo sedes ejus."
+        en: "The Lord is in his holy temple, * the Lord's throne is in heaven."
+    - psalms: [23]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Tóllite portas, * príncipes vestras, et elevámini, portæ æternáles."
+        en: "Lift up your gates, O ye princes, * and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors."
+    - psalms: [28]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Adoráte * Dóminum in aula sancta ejus."
+        en: "Adore ye the Lord * in his holy court."
+    - psalms: [45]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Erit mihi Dóminus * in Deum, et lapis iste vocábitur domus Dei."
+        en: "The Lord shall be my God, * and this stone shall be called God's house."
+    - psalms: [47]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Ædificávit * Móyses altáre Dómino Deo."
+        en: "Moses built an altar * to the Lord God."
+  versicle:
+    v:
+      la: "Domum tuam, Dómine, decet sanctitúdo."
+      en: "Holiness becometh thine house, O Lord."
+    r:
+      la: "In longitúdinem diérum."
+      en: "For ever."
+nocturn2:
+  groups:
+    - psalms: [83]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Beáti, * qui hábitant in domo tua, Dómine; † in sǽcula sæculórum laudábunt te."
+        en: "Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: * they shall praise thee for ever and ever."
+    - psalms: [86]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Non est hic áliud, * nisi domus Dei, et porta cæli."
+        en: "This is none other * but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."
+    - psalms: [87]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Templum Dómini * sanctum est, Dei structúra est, Dei ædificátio est."
+        en: "The Temple of the Lord is holy: * the same is God's workmanship and God's building."
+    - psalms: [90]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Qui hábitat * in adjutório Altíssimi, in protectióne Dei cæli commorábitur."
+        en: "He that dwelleth in the help of the Most High * shall abide under the shadow of the God of heaven."
+    - psalms: [95]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Eréxit Jacob * lápidem in títulum, fundens óleum désuper."
+        en: "Jacob set up the stone for a pillar, * and poured oil upon the top of it."
+    - psalms: [98]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Benedícta * glória Dómini, de loco sancto suo, allelúja."
+        en: "Blessed be the glory of the Lord * from His holy place. Alleluia."
+  versicle:
+    v:
+      la: "Domus mea."
+      en: "My house."
+    r:
+      la: "Domus oratiónis vocábitur."
+      en: "Shall be called the house of prayer."
+nocturn3:
+  antiphon:
+    la: "Vidit Jacob scalam, * súmmitas ejus cælos tangébat, et descendéntes Angelos, et dixit: Vere locus iste sanctus est."
+    en: "Jacob beheld a ladder, * the top whereof touched heaven, and angels descending on it, and he said: Surely this place is holy."
+  canticles:
+    - refs:
+        - { book: tob, chapter: 13, verses: "10-17" }
+    - refs:
+        - { book: isa, chapter: 2, verses: "2-3" }
+    - refs:
+        - { book: jer, chapter: 7, verses: "2-7" }
+  versicle:
+    v:
+      la: "Hæc est domus Dómini fírmiter ædificáta."
+      en: "This is the house of God, stoutly builded."
+    r:
+      la: "Bene fundáta est supra firmam petram."
+      en: "Well founded upon a sure rock."

src/data/hours/matins-psalmody-overrides/categories/common-of-a-virgin-martyr.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+# Generic Common-of-a-Virgin-Martyr Matins psalmody, live-verified against
+# Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617, command=prayMatutinum,
+# 2026-10-07 -- St. Justina, Virgin and Martyr, whose own Rule is a plain
+# calendar reassignment with no proper Matins content of her own --
+# `propers: null` confirmed correct by her own file's header comment -- so
+# her output *is* this category's generic scheme, not a saint-specific
+# deviation). Rank Duplex, clears the Duplex+ three-nocturn gate.
+#
+# Reference-engine votive number: C6 ("Unius Virginis Martyris"), per
+# `../divinum-officium-reference/web/www/horas/horas.dialog`'s own
+# `[votives]`/`[communes]` index -- recorded here as the authoritative
+# mapping for the next saint in this category, but note the CGI's
+# `votive=` parameter does NOT actually swap Matins nocturn psalmody (it
+# does affect the Invitatory antiphon, and Lauds/Vespers) -- confirmed by
+# querying `votive=C6`/`votive=C7` back-to-back and getting byte-identical
+# ferial Nocturn 1/2 antiphons both times. A real Duplex+ saint's own
+# calendar date is the only reliable way to pull this content live; the
+# votive number is still useful as a cross-reference into the reference
+# engine's own on-disk `CommuneM/C6.txt` et al.
+#
+# All 6 Nocturn 1/2 antiphons draw on the Song of Songs (bridal imagery);
+# Nocturn 3's canticle is Sirach 39 + Isaiah 61-62 (garment-of-salvation/
+# bridal-adornment imagery), distinct from Common-of-a-Confessor's Sirach/
+# Jeremiah canticle set. Genuinely different from Common-of-a-Virgin
+# (`common-of-a-virgin.yml`, votive C6a "Unius Virginis tantum" -- a
+# different votive number, not the same scheme) -- not verified
+# byte-identical, kept as separate files by design (the reference index
+# itself lists them as separate Commons).
+id: common-of-a-virgin-martyr
+nocturn1:
+  groups:
+    - psalms: [8]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "O quam pulchra * est casta generátio cum claritáte!"
+        en: "O how lovely and glorious * is the generation of the chaste."
+    - psalms: [18]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Ante torum * hujus Vírginis frequentáte nobis dúlcia cántica drámatis."
+        en: "Sing for us again and again before this maiden's bed * the tender idylls of the play."
+    - psalms: [23]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Revértere, * revértere, Sunamítis; revértere, ut intueámur te."
+        en: "Return, return, O Shulammith * Return, return, that we may look upon thee."
+    - psalms: [44]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Spécie tua * et pulchritúdine tua inténde, próspere procéde, et regna."
+        en: "In thy comeliness and thy beauty, * go forward, fare prosperously, and reign."
+    - psalms: [45]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Adjuvábit eam * Deus vultu suo: Deus in médio ejus, non commovébitur."
+        en: "God shall help * her with His countenance: God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved."
+    - psalms: [47]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Aquæ multæ * non potuérunt exstínguere caritátem."
+        en: "Many waters cannot * quench love."
+  versicle:
+    v:
+      la: "Spécie tua et pulchritúdine tua."
+      en: "In thy comeliness and thy beauty."
+    r:
+      la: "Inténde, próspere procéde, et regna."
+      en: "Go forward, fare prosperously, and reign."
+nocturn2:
+  groups:
+    - psalms: [84]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Nigra sum, * sed formósa, fíliæ Jerúsalem; ídeo diléxit me Rex, et introdúxit me in cubículum suum."
+        en: "I am black but comely, * O ye daughters of Jerusalem; therefore hath the King loved me, and brought me into his chamber."
+    - psalms: [86]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Trahe me post te, * in odórem currémus unguentórum tuórum: óleum effúsum nomen tuum."
+        en: "Draw me after thee * we will run after the savour of thy good ointments; thy name is as oil poured forth."
+    - psalms: [95]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Veni, Sponsa Christi, * áccipe corónam, quam tibi Dóminus præparávit in ætérnum."
+        en: "Come, Bride of Christ, * and take the everlasting crown which the Lord hath prepared for thee."
+    - psalms: [96]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Unguéntum effúsum * nomen tuum; ideo adolescéntulæ dilexérunt te nimis."
+        en: "Thy name is as oil poured out: * therefore young maidens have loved thee."
+    - psalms: [97]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Pulchra es * et decóra fília Jerúsalem, terríbilis ut castrórum ácies ordináta."
+        en: "O my love, * sweet and comely as Jerusalem: terrible as an army set in array."
+    - psalms: [98]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Accínxit * fortitúdine lumbos suos, et roborávit bráchium suum; ideóque lucérna ejus non exstinguétur in sempitérnum."
+        en: "She hath girded * her loins with strength, and hath strengthened her arm."
+  versicle:
+    v:
+      la: "Adjuvábit eam Deus vultu suo."
+      en: "God shall help her with His countenance."
+    r:
+      la: "Deus in médio ejus, non commovébitur."
+      en: "God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved."
+nocturn3:
+  antiphon:
+    la: "Média nocte * clamor factus est: Ecce sponsus venit: exíte óbviam ei."
+    en: "And at midnight * there was a cry made: Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye forth to meet him."
+  canticles:
+    - refs:
+        - { book: sir, chapter: 39, verses: "17-21" }
+    - refs:
+        - { book: isa, chapter: 61, verses: "10-11" }
+        - { book: isa, chapter: 62, verses: "1-3" }
+    - refs:
+        - { book: isa, chapter: 62, verses: "4-7" }
+  versicle:
+    v:
+      la: "Elégit eam Deus, et præelégit eam."
+      en: "God hath chosen her, and fore-chosen her."
+    r:
+      la: "In tabernáculo suo habitáre facit eam."
+      en: "He hath made her to dwell in His tabernacle."

src/data/hours/matins-psalmody-overrides/categories/common-of-an-apostle.yml

@@ -10,7 +10,15 @@
 # pattern already established for Common-of-a-Martyr (see that category
 # file's own doc comment).
 #
+# `aliases` also registers `common-of-apostles` (plural, vu's separate id
+# for feasts of two-or-more Apostles together) under this same scheme
+# (2026-08) — live-verified against the Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul
+# (2026-07-06, Duplex): psalms, antiphons, and versicles all
+# byte-identical to this file, a genuine full redirect (reference votive
+# number C1 covers both per `horas.dialog`'s `[votives]` index, which
+# doesn't distinguish singular from plural Apostle commons).
 id: common-of-an-apostle
+aliases: [common-of-apostles]
 nocturn1:
   groups:
     - psalms: [18]

src/data/hours/matins-psalmody-overrides/categories/common-of-the-bvm.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+# Generic Common-of-the-BVM Matins psalmody, live-verified against
+# Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617, command=prayMatutinum,
+# 2026-08-05 -- Our Lady of the Snows, whose own file is `propers: null`
+# -- confirmed against her own saint-file comment as a real Common-only
+# case, no proper of her own -- so her output *is* this category's
+# generic scheme). Rank Duplex majus, clears the Duplex+ three-nocturn
+# gate.
+#
+# Reference-engine votive number: C11 ("Beatae Mariae Virginis"), per
+# `horas.dialog`'s own `[votives]` index -- see
+# `common-of-a-virgin-martyr.yml`'s own header for why the CGI's
+# `votive=` parameter isn't itself usable to pull this live (it doesn't
+# swap Matins nocturn psalmody, only the Invitatory/Lauds/Vespers) --
+# a real Duplex+ saint's own calendar date remains the only reliable path.
+#
+# All 6 Nocturn 1/2 antiphons are Marian (Song of Songs bridal imagery
+# plus proper Marian phrases like "Sicut myrrha elécta" and "Gaude, María
+# Virgo"); Nocturn 3's antiphon+canticle is the "Hortus conclúsus" (Song
+# of Songs 4) text, genuinely distinct content from both
+# Common-of-a-Virgin-Martyr and Common-of-a-Virgin's own Nocturn 3.
+id: common-of-the-bvm
+nocturn1:
+  groups:
+    - psalms: [8]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Benedícta tu * in muliéribus, et benedíctus fructus ventris tui."
+        en: "Blessed art thou among women, * and blessed is the fruit of thy womb."
+    - psalms: [18]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Sicut myrrha * elécta, odórem dedísti suavitátis, sancta Dei Génitrix."
+        en: "O Holy Mother of God * thou hast yielded a pleasant odor like the best myrrh."
+    - psalms: [23]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Ante torum * hujus Vírginis frequentáte nobis dúlcia cántica drámatis."
+        en: "Sing for us again and again before this maiden's bed * the tender idylls of the play."
+    - psalms: [44]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Spécie tua * et pulchritúdine tua inténde, próspere procéde, et regna."
+        en: "In thy comeliness and thy beauty, * go forward, fare prosperously, and reign."
+    - psalms: [45]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Adjuvábit eam * Deus vultu suo: Deus in médio ejus, non commovébitur."
+        en: "God shall help * her with His countenance: God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved."
+    - psalms: [47]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Favus distíllans * lábia tua, Sponsa, mel et lac sub lingua tua: † et odor vestimentórum tuórum sicut odor thuris."
+        en: "Your lips, * my spouse, are as a dropping honeycomb, honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments, as the smell of frankincense."
+  versicle:
+    v:
+      la: "Spécie tua et pulchritúdine tua."
+      en: "In thy comeliness and thy beauty."
+    r:
+      la: "Inténde, próspere procéde, et regna."
+      en: "Go forward, fare prosperously, and reign."
+nocturn2:
+  groups:
+    - psalms: [84]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Fons hortórum, * púteus aquárum vivéntium, † quæ fluunt ímpetu de Líbano."
+        en: "The fountain of gardens: * the well of living waters, which run with a strong stream from Libanus."
+    - psalms: [86]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Sicut lætántium * ómnium nostrum habitátio est in te, sancta Dei Génitrix."
+        en: "O Holy Mother of God * all we who dwell in thee are in gladness."
+    - psalms: [95]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Gaude, María Virgo: * cunctas hǽreses sola interemísti in univérso mundo."
+        en: "Joy to thee, * O Virgin Mary, thou hast trampled down all the heresies in the whole world."
+    - psalms: [96]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Dignáre me * laudáre te, Virgo sacráta: da mihi virtútem contra hostes tuos."
+        en: "Holy Virgin, my praise by thee accepted be; * give me strength against thine enemies."
+    - psalms: [97]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Post partum, * Virgo, invioláta permansísti: Dei Génitrix, intercéde pro nobis."
+        en: "After thy delivery thou still remainest a virgin; * undefiled Mother of God, pray for us."
+    - psalms: [98]
+      antiphon:
+        la: "Descéndi * in hortum nucum, ut vidérem poma convállium, † et inspícerem, si floruísset vinea, et germinássent mala púnica, allelúja."
+        en: "I went down * into the garden of nuts, to see the fruits of the valleys, and to look if the vineyard had flourished, and the pomegranates budded."
+  versicle:
+    v:
+      la: "Adjuvábit eam Deus vultu suo."
+      en: "God shall help her with His countenance."
+    r:
+      la: "Deus in médio ejus, non commovébitur."
+      en: "God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved."
+nocturn3:
+  antiphon:
+    la: "Hortus conclúsus * es Dei Génitrix, hortus conclúsus, fons signátus: † surge própera, amíca mea, et veni."
+    en: "Thou art a garden enclosed, * O Mother of God, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed: arise, make haste, my love, and come."
+  canticles:
+    - refs:
+        - { book: sir, chapter: 39, verses: "17-21" }
+    - refs:
+        - { book: isa, chapter: 61, verses: "10-11" }
+        - { book: isa, chapter: 62, verses: "1-3" }
+    - refs:
+        - { book: isa, chapter: 62, verses: "4-7" }
+  versicle:
+    v:
+      la: "Elégit eam Deus, et præelégit eam."
+      en: "God hath chosen her, and fore-chosen her."
+    r:
+      la: "In tabernáculo suo habitáre facit eam."
+      en: "He hath made her to dwell in His tabernacle."

tests/hours/matins.test.ts

@@ -330,16 +330,19 @@ describe('resolveOrdo("matins", ...) Duplex+ weekday-feast (3-nocturn, non-Sunda
   });
 
   it('falls all the way back to the plain ferial weekday table, redistributed into 3 nocturns, when neither a proper nor a Common entry is authored', () => {
-    // St. Anthony, Abbot (Duplex, Common of an Abbot -- no
-    // matins-psalmody-overrides category authored yet for either tier)
-    // -- 2029-01-17, a Wednesday, confirmed clean (no Sunday collision).
-    const fallback = resolveOrdo('matins', '2029-01-17');
+    // St. Monica, Widow (Duplex, Common of a Widow -- no
+    // matins-psalmody-overrides category authored yet for either tier;
+    // Common-of-an-Abbot no longer qualifies for this proof as of
+    // 2026-08-27, now aliased to Common-of-a-Confessor) -- 2029-05-04, a
+    // Friday, confirmed clean (no Sunday collision, per her own
+    // saint-file comment).
+    const fallback = resolveOrdo('matins', '2029-05-04');
     const psalms = fallback.parts.filter((p) => p.kind === 'psalm').map((p) => (p as { psalmNumber: number }).psalmNumber);
-    // Ps 3 + 94, then Wednesday's own 9-psalm ferial table
-    // (psalter-distribution.yml), not any Common-of-an-Abbot scheme.
+    // Ps 3 + 94, then Friday's own 9-psalm ferial table
+    // (psalter-distribution.yml), not any Common-of-a-Widow scheme.
     expect(psalms[0]).toBe(3);
     expect(psalms[1]).toBe(94);
-    expect(psalms.slice(2)).toEqual(getPsalmsFor('matins', 'wednesday').map((r) => r.number));
+    expect(psalms.slice(2)).toEqual(getPsalmsFor('matins', 'friday').map((r) => r.number));
     expect(fallback.parts.some((p) => p.kind === 'te-deum')).toBe(true);
     expect(fallback.parts.some((p) => p.kind === 'canticle')).toBe(false);
   });