Record Common-of-a-Confessor Matins hymn work in TODO.md

Marks the Confessors (C4) hymn gap from the 2026-08-24 entry as done
and logs the Monastic-vs-secular textual-variant finding as a general
lesson about not trusting reused reference-engine translations.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019jHSimu99UDKh1pRRd11uV

TODO.md

@@ -2653,9 +2653,10 @@ Common's text for hymn + invitatory.
 
 **Not authored, logged as explicit backlog**, same incremental-content pattern as everywhere
 else in this project:
-- Hymn + invitatory Common tiers for: Martyrs (C2), Confessors (C4), Virgins (C6), Holy Women
+- Hymn + invitatory Common tiers for: Martyrs (C2), Virgins (C6), Holy Women
   (C7), Dedication (C8), General/All Saints (C9) — all confirmed to have their own distinct
-  `[Invit]`/`[Hymnus Matutinum]` text in the reference source, not yet transcribed.
+  `[Invit]`/`[Hymnus Matutinum]` text in the reference source, not yet transcribed. Confessors
+  (C4) hymn done 2026-08-25, see below — invitatory antiphon still open.
 - Seasonal invitatory-antiphon tier content (Advent/Lent/Passiontide/Paschaltide/Christmastide)
   — mechanism now exists (same `seasonalOfficeSuffix`-keyed lookup the hymn's own long-standing
   seasonal tier already uses), but no seasonal invitatory file is authored yet; every season
@@ -2697,6 +2698,37 @@ Christmas/Stephen/John/Innocents octave days) the other path doesn't reach. Left
 
 `npm test` (470 tests) and `tsc --noEmit` both pass.
 
+### Common-of-a-Confessor Matins hymn authored, Monastic-vs-secular textual variant (2026-08-25)
+
+**Bug fixed**: St. Louis (2026-08-25, `common-of-a-confessor-not-bishop`, wins outright as a
+Simplex) was falling through `resolveMatinsHymn`'s Common-of-Saints tier straight to the plain
+ferial hymn, because none of the 5 confessor `common:` ids in use across `data/calendar/saints/*`
+(`common-of-a-confessor` [37 saints], `common-of-a-confessor-bishop` [33], `common-of-a-
+confessor-not-bishop` [6], `common-of-a-confessor-pope` [3], `common-of-a-confessor-doctor` [4])
+had a `matins-hymn-<id>.yml` authored yet — this was the "Confessors (C4)" gap logged in the
+2026-08-24 entry above. All 5 authored now, all sharing one text ("Iste Conféssor Dómini
+sacrátus" / "This is the Lord's own hallowed confessor").
+
+**Textual-variant wrinkle, worth remembering generally**: the reference engine's
+`Commune/C4.txt` actually contains two genuinely different Latin recensions of this hymn, not
+just formatting variants — a secular-breviary Urban VIII revision (`[Hymnus Vespera]`: "...
+coléntes... Hac die lætus méruit beátas Scándere sedes") and an older Monastic-track form
+(`[HymnusM Vespera]`: "...sacrátus... Hódie lætus méruit secréta Scándere cæli"), live-verified
+by querying `Pofficium.pl` both ways (St. Louis under `version=Monastic Tridentinum 1617`
+renders `sacrátus`; a Doctor confessor under `version=Divino Afflatu` renders `coléntes` — the
+split is Monastic-vs-secular, *not* doctor-vs-other, despite a Solesmes chant-archive gabc file
+being labeled "pro Doctoribus"). Since vu's Matins is Monastic-1617-structured throughout, the
+`sacrátus` form is correct for all 5 ids alike. Also: the reference engine's own English track
+has only one translation and reuses it for both Latin forms without distinction — sloppily,
+since its concrete imagery (visiting the saint's *tomb*; being helped by his *merits*, not his
+*prayers*) actually only matches the `sacrátus` Latin. Rather than trust that reused pairing,
+the English here is an original translation of the `sacrátus` Latin (kept in the same unrhymed
+Sapphic 11.11.11.5-syllable shape as this project's other hymn translations), so `status.en` is
+`draft` while `status.la` is `verified`. General lesson: when the reference source has multiple
+textual variants of the same hymn, don't assume a single attached translation was written for
+whichever variant happens to be nearest it — check the imagery/vocabulary against each Latin
+candidate before trusting the pairing.
+
 ## Known, deliberate simplifications (not bugs — working as designed)
 
 - `getDayCollects`: each collect in a multi-collect day renders as its own

src/data/propers/common/matins-hymn-common-of-a-confessor-bishop.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+# Same Common-of-a-Confessor Matins hymn as
+# matins-hymn-common-of-a-confessor-not-bishop.yml ("Iste Conféssor Dómini
+# sacrátus") — see that file's header comment for full sourcing detail
+# (Monastic-track textual variant, original English translation).
+id: matins-hymn-common-of-a-confessor-bishop
+text:
+  la: >-
+    Iste Conféssor Dómini sacrátus,
+
+    Festa plebs cujus celébrat per orbem,
+
+    Hódie lætus méruit secréta
+
+    Scándere cæli.
+
+
+    Qui pius, prudens, húmilis, pudícus,
+
+    Sóbrius, castus fuit et quiétus,
+
+    Vita dum præsens vegetávit ejus
+
+    Córporis artus.
+
+
+    Ob sacrum cujus túmulum frequénter
+
+    Membra languéntum modo sanitáti,
+
+    Quólibet morbo fúerint graváta,
+
+    Restituúntur.
+
+
+    Unde nunc noster chorus in honórem
+
+    Ipsius, hymnum canit hunc libénter:
+
+    Ut piis ejus méritis juvémur
+
+    Omne per ævum.
+
+
+    Sit salus illi, decus atque virtus,
+
+    Qui supra cæli résidens cacúmen,
+
+    Tótius mundi máchinam gubérnat
+
+    Trinus et unus. Amen.
+  en: >-
+    This is the Lord's own hallowed confessor,
+
+    Whose feast today the nations round are keeping;
+
+    Joyful, he merited this day to enter
+
+    Heaven's hid glory.
+
+
+    Dutiful, prudent, humble, chaste, he flourished,
+
+    Sober and quiet, pure in all his living,
+
+    While in his body yet the breath of this life
+
+    Quickened his members.
+
+
+    Often at his consecrated tomb, the
+
+    Limbs of those worn by long and grievous sickness,
+
+    Whatsoever ill had laid them low, are
+
+    Wholly restored.
+
+
+    Therefore our choir today, in glad thanksgiving,
+
+    Sings in his honor this our joyful anthem:
+
+    That by his merits, freely won through goodness,
+
+    We may be aided.
+
+
+    Praise be to Him, all honor, might, dominion,
+
+    Who from the height of heaven's throne is reigning,
+
+    Governing all the fabric of creation,
+
+    Three and yet One. Amen.
+status:
+  la: verified
+  en: draft

src/data/propers/common/matins-hymn-common-of-a-confessor-doctor.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+# Same Common-of-a-Confessor Matins hymn as
+# matins-hymn-common-of-a-confessor-not-bishop.yml ("Iste Conféssor Dómini
+# sacrátus") — see that file's header comment for full sourcing detail
+# (Monastic-track textual variant, original English translation).
+id: matins-hymn-common-of-a-confessor-doctor
+text:
+  la: >-
+    Iste Conféssor Dómini sacrátus,
+
+    Festa plebs cujus celébrat per orbem,
+
+    Hódie lætus méruit secréta
+
+    Scándere cæli.
+
+
+    Qui pius, prudens, húmilis, pudícus,
+
+    Sóbrius, castus fuit et quiétus,
+
+    Vita dum præsens vegetávit ejus
+
+    Córporis artus.
+
+
+    Ob sacrum cujus túmulum frequénter
+
+    Membra languéntum modo sanitáti,
+
+    Quólibet morbo fúerint graváta,
+
+    Restituúntur.
+
+
+    Unde nunc noster chorus in honórem
+
+    Ipsius, hymnum canit hunc libénter:
+
+    Ut piis ejus méritis juvémur
+
+    Omne per ævum.
+
+
+    Sit salus illi, decus atque virtus,
+
+    Qui supra cæli résidens cacúmen,
+
+    Tótius mundi máchinam gubérnat
+
+    Trinus et unus. Amen.
+  en: >-
+    This is the Lord's own hallowed confessor,
+
+    Whose feast today the nations round are keeping;
+
+    Joyful, he merited this day to enter
+
+    Heaven's hid glory.
+
+
+    Dutiful, prudent, humble, chaste, he flourished,
+
+    Sober and quiet, pure in all his living,
+
+    While in his body yet the breath of this life
+
+    Quickened his members.
+
+
+    Often at his consecrated tomb, the
+
+    Limbs of those worn by long and grievous sickness,
+
+    Whatsoever ill had laid them low, are
+
+    Wholly restored.
+
+
+    Therefore our choir today, in glad thanksgiving,
+
+    Sings in his honor this our joyful anthem:
+
+    That by his merits, freely won through goodness,
+
+    We may be aided.
+
+
+    Praise be to Him, all honor, might, dominion,
+
+    Who from the height of heaven's throne is reigning,
+
+    Governing all the fabric of creation,
+
+    Three and yet One. Amen.
+status:
+  la: verified
+  en: draft

src/data/propers/common/matins-hymn-common-of-a-confessor-not-bishop.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+# The Common-of-a-Confessor's Matins hymn ("Iste Conféssor Dómini sacrátus" /
+# "This is the Lord's own hallowed confessor"). Latin is the Monastic-track
+# textual variant (reference engine's Commune/C4.txt [HymnusM Vespera] block,
+# live-verified for St. Louis, 2026-08-25, version=Monastic Tridentinum
+# 1617) — distinct from the secular breviary's later Urban VIII revision
+# ("...coléntes... Hac die lætus méruit beátas Scándere sedes"), which vu's
+# Monastic-structured Matins does not use. English is an original
+# translation (the reference engine's own English/Commune/C4.txt reuses one
+# translation for both Latin textual variants — mismatched here: its tomb
+# imagery and "merits" wording actually belong to this sacrátus form, not
+# the secular one it's nominally paired with there — so it wasn't trusted
+# and re-translated fresh instead), hence status.en: draft while
+# status.la: verified (transcribed as-is from the reference engine).
+id: matins-hymn-common-of-a-confessor-not-bishop
+text:
+  la: >-
+    Iste Conféssor Dómini sacrátus,
+
+    Festa plebs cujus celébrat per orbem,
+
+    Hódie lætus méruit secréta
+
+    Scándere cæli.
+
+
+    Qui pius, prudens, húmilis, pudícus,
+
+    Sóbrius, castus fuit et quiétus,
+
+    Vita dum præsens vegetávit ejus
+
+    Córporis artus.
+
+
+    Ob sacrum cujus túmulum frequénter
+
+    Membra languéntum modo sanitáti,
+
+    Quólibet morbo fúerint graváta,
+
+    Restituúntur.
+
+
+    Unde nunc noster chorus in honórem
+
+    Ipsius, hymnum canit hunc libénter:
+
+    Ut piis ejus méritis juvémur
+
+    Omne per ævum.
+
+
+    Sit salus illi, decus atque virtus,
+
+    Qui supra cæli résidens cacúmen,
+
+    Tótius mundi máchinam gubérnat
+
+    Trinus et unus. Amen.
+  en: >-
+    This is the Lord's own hallowed confessor,
+
+    Whose feast today the nations round are keeping;
+
+    Joyful, he merited this day to enter
+
+    Heaven's hid glory.
+
+
+    Dutiful, prudent, humble, chaste, he flourished,
+
+    Sober and quiet, pure in all his living,
+
+    While in his body yet the breath of this life
+
+    Quickened his members.
+
+
+    Often at his consecrated tomb, the
+
+    Limbs of those worn by long and grievous sickness,
+
+    Whatsoever ill had laid them low, are
+
+    Wholly restored.
+
+
+    Therefore our choir today, in glad thanksgiving,
+
+    Sings in his honor this our joyful anthem:
+
+    That by his merits, freely won through goodness,
+
+    We may be aided.
+
+
+    Praise be to Him, all honor, might, dominion,
+
+    Who from the height of heaven's throne is reigning,
+
+    Governing all the fabric of creation,
+
+    Three and yet One. Amen.
+status:
+  la: verified
+  en: draft

src/data/propers/common/matins-hymn-common-of-a-confessor-pope.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+# Same Common-of-a-Confessor Matins hymn as
+# matins-hymn-common-of-a-confessor-not-bishop.yml ("Iste Conféssor Dómini
+# sacrátus") — see that file's header comment for full sourcing detail
+# (Monastic-track textual variant, original English translation).
+id: matins-hymn-common-of-a-confessor-pope
+text:
+  la: >-
+    Iste Conféssor Dómini sacrátus,
+
+    Festa plebs cujus celébrat per orbem,
+
+    Hódie lætus méruit secréta
+
+    Scándere cæli.
+
+
+    Qui pius, prudens, húmilis, pudícus,
+
+    Sóbrius, castus fuit et quiétus,
+
+    Vita dum præsens vegetávit ejus
+
+    Córporis artus.
+
+
+    Ob sacrum cujus túmulum frequénter
+
+    Membra languéntum modo sanitáti,
+
+    Quólibet morbo fúerint graváta,
+
+    Restituúntur.
+
+
+    Unde nunc noster chorus in honórem
+
+    Ipsius, hymnum canit hunc libénter:
+
+    Ut piis ejus méritis juvémur
+
+    Omne per ævum.
+
+
+    Sit salus illi, decus atque virtus,
+
+    Qui supra cæli résidens cacúmen,
+
+    Tótius mundi máchinam gubérnat
+
+    Trinus et unus. Amen.
+  en: >-
+    This is the Lord's own hallowed confessor,
+
+    Whose feast today the nations round are keeping;
+
+    Joyful, he merited this day to enter
+
+    Heaven's hid glory.
+
+
+    Dutiful, prudent, humble, chaste, he flourished,
+
+    Sober and quiet, pure in all his living,
+
+    While in his body yet the breath of this life
+
+    Quickened his members.
+
+
+    Often at his consecrated tomb, the
+
+    Limbs of those worn by long and grievous sickness,
+
+    Whatsoever ill had laid them low, are
+
+    Wholly restored.
+
+
+    Therefore our choir today, in glad thanksgiving,
+
+    Sings in his honor this our joyful anthem:
+
+    That by his merits, freely won through goodness,
+
+    We may be aided.
+
+
+    Praise be to Him, all honor, might, dominion,
+
+    Who from the height of heaven's throne is reigning,
+
+    Governing all the fabric of creation,
+
+    Three and yet One. Amen.
+status:
+  la: verified
+  en: draft

src/data/propers/common/matins-hymn-common-of-a-confessor.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+# Same Common-of-a-Confessor Matins hymn as
+# matins-hymn-common-of-a-confessor-not-bishop.yml ("Iste Conféssor Dómini
+# sacrátus") — see that file's header comment for full sourcing detail
+# (Monastic-track textual variant, original English translation).
+id: matins-hymn-common-of-a-confessor
+text:
+  la: >-
+    Iste Conféssor Dómini sacrátus,
+
+    Festa plebs cujus celébrat per orbem,
+
+    Hódie lætus méruit secréta
+
+    Scándere cæli.
+
+
+    Qui pius, prudens, húmilis, pudícus,
+
+    Sóbrius, castus fuit et quiétus,
+
+    Vita dum præsens vegetávit ejus
+
+    Córporis artus.
+
+
+    Ob sacrum cujus túmulum frequénter
+
+    Membra languéntum modo sanitáti,
+
+    Quólibet morbo fúerint graváta,
+
+    Restituúntur.
+
+
+    Unde nunc noster chorus in honórem
+
+    Ipsius, hymnum canit hunc libénter:
+
+    Ut piis ejus méritis juvémur
+
+    Omne per ævum.
+
+
+    Sit salus illi, decus atque virtus,
+
+    Qui supra cæli résidens cacúmen,
+
+    Tótius mundi máchinam gubérnat
+
+    Trinus et unus. Amen.
+  en: >-
+    This is the Lord's own hallowed confessor,
+
+    Whose feast today the nations round are keeping;
+
+    Joyful, he merited this day to enter
+
+    Heaven's hid glory.
+
+
+    Dutiful, prudent, humble, chaste, he flourished,
+
+    Sober and quiet, pure in all his living,
+
+    While in his body yet the breath of this life
+
+    Quickened his members.
+
+
+    Often at his consecrated tomb, the
+
+    Limbs of those worn by long and grievous sickness,
+
+    Whatsoever ill had laid them low, are
+
+    Wholly restored.
+
+
+    Therefore our choir today, in glad thanksgiving,
+
+    Sings in his honor this our joyful anthem:
+
+    That by his merits, freely won through goodness,
+
+    We may be aided.
+
+
+    Praise be to Him, all honor, might, dominion,
+
+    Who from the height of heaven's throne is reigning,
+
+    Governing all the fabric of creation,
+
+    Three and yet One. Amen.
+status:
+  la: verified
+  en: draft