Document the pre-1955 sanctoral Matins readings pass in TODO.md

Removes the resolved "mechanism gap" entry (it turned out to need no
new mechanism, just sourcing), adds a dated build-log entry with the
sourcing method and the critical "plain Sancti/MM-DD.txt file is often
the wrong saint" wrinkle, and repoints the remaining backlog at the
larger Monastic-1617-track saint pool.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TODO.md

@@ -19,9 +19,6 @@ across every hour and content type in this app.
 
 1. **Mechanism gaps** — a real design/code piece not built yet, blocking any content pass on
    it from starting:
-   - Pre-1955-but-post-1617 saints' differently-structured Matins readings — source confirmed
-     (Tridentine/Divino Afflatu, combine-where-sensible applies the same way), but the actual
-     sourcing/modeling pass hasn't started — see "Matins ordo" below.
    - Easter's own octave — tabled, "a whole different discussion."
    - What "a Gospel reading is its own kind" should mean structurally/in the UI, beyond the
      `isGospel` flag on a plain Matins `lesson` — open; deferred until there's a UI to
@@ -36,8 +33,10 @@ across every hour and content type in this app.
      author patristic/hagiographic
      readings for every saint where one can be sourced — no longer Duplex+-gated, content is
      pooled and shown regardless of rank (see "Reading-pool redesign"); expand the per-book
-     Matins responsory pool beyond its one seeded book (`isa`); once the pre-1955 mechanism gap
-     above is resolved, source those saints' readings too.
+     Matins responsory pool beyond its one seeded book (`isa`). The pre-1955-but-post-1617
+     saints (Tridentine/Divino Afflatu-sourced, no Monastic 1617 track) are now done — see
+     "Pre-1955 saints' Matins readings" below — what's left is the larger pool of saints that
+     *do* have a Monastic 1617 track (`SanctiM/`), same authoring shape, not yet started.
    - The bulk Vulgate (Latin) + Douay-Rheims (English) scripture import into
      `src/data/scripture/` — long-term project, explicitly deferred; Matins scripture
      citations resolve to `missing` text until it lands.
@@ -1317,14 +1316,52 @@ content, just via the new pool/distribute path) and `npm run build` both pass.
   "every saint where a reading can be sourced," not just the ~75 Duplex+
   saints that get their own Nocturn 3 slot (see the reading-pool redesign
   above: content is no longer rank-gated, only nocturn *count* is).
-- Pre-1955-but-post-1617 saints' differently-structured readings (source
-  confirmed as Tridentine/Divino Afflatu rather than Monastic 1617,
-  combine-where-sensible rule confirmed to apply the same way — the actual
-  sourcing pass not started).
 - The per-book responsory pool beyond its one seeded book (`isa`).
 - The bulk Vulgate (Latin) + Douay-Rheims (English) import into
   `src/data/scripture/` — in scope for the project long-term, explicitly
   deferred past this pass per direct instruction.
+
+### Pre-1955-but-post-1617 saints' Matins readings — done (2026-08)
+
+Resolved the former "mechanism gap" above into a concrete, scoped content pass — no new
+mechanism was actually needed, since `nocturn-readings.ts`/`buildReadingPool` already accept
+content from any source once authored (see the reading-pool redesign above); this was a
+sourcing gap, not a design gap.
+
+**Method**: read the reference engine's own files directly on disk (`../divinum-officium-reference`),
+not live queries — `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/MM-DD.txt` is the Tridentine track (Sancti, no
+`M`), `web/www/horas/Latin/SanctiM/MM-DD*.txt` the Monastic track. A saint with a `Sancti/`
+file but no `SanctiM/` file at all (any suffix) never existed in Monastic 1617, confirming the
+pre-1955-but-post-1617 case. **Critical wrinkle found and now memory'd** (see memory
+`vu-reference-engine-file-layout`, `vu-matins-pre1955-saints`): the plain, unsuffixed
+`Sancti/MM-DD.txt` is very often the *wrong* saint — the general/Tridentine calendar keeps
+piling later canonizations onto the same date slot in that file, displacing the older saint
+into a suffixed sibling file (`01-23o.txt`, `03-04cc.txt`, etc.) or, in one case (St. Paul the
+Hermit), an entirely different date. Every one of the ~52 candidates was individually verified
+by `[Officium]` match, not assumed from the filename.
+
+**Scope, computed against `sanctoral-calendar.yml`'s 204 saint-day entries**: 52 pre-1955-only
+candidates (`Sancti/` present, no `SanctiM/` at all, any suffix); of these, 43 had real proper
+lesson content to author, 9 turned out to be pure Common-of-X with no proper text in the
+source at all (`st-lucius-i`, `vigil-of-st-james`, `st-christina`, `vigil-of-st-bartholomew`,
+`ss-twelve-brothers`, `vigil-of-ss-simon-and-jude`, `st-saturninus`, `st-sabbas`,
+`vigil-of-st-thomas` — correctly left unauthored, not a gap). All 43 authored as
+`src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/<id>.yml`, same shape and combine-where-sensible rule as
+the two original proof dates. A few readings reuse already-verified text from
+`post-pentecost-15.yml` where the source file itself cross-references another day's lessons
+(e.g. `st-monica`'s Nocturn 3 Gospel, the same Luke 7:11-16 pericope). A handful of bare
+Gospel pericopes were left unauthored where the source gives only an incipit ("Et réliqua")
+and no full text was available to transcribe (flagged per-file, not silently dropped) — same
+deferral as the bulk Vulgate/Douay-Rheims import. One saint (`st-anicetus`) has an
+English-source transcription bug (Latin duplicated under the English heading) — this
+project's own translation used instead, marked `draft`.
+
+`npm test` (365 tests, all passing — none of the new saints are in a test table yet, same as
+the bible-plan bulk conversion) and `npm run build`/`tsc --noEmit` both pass.
+
+**Not done in this pass**: the larger pool of saints that *do* have a Monastic 1617
+(`SanctiM/`) track — same authoring shape, separate/older backlog item (see priority §2 above).
+
 ### Bible-plan TSV — bulk conversion done (2026-08)
 
 All ~369 non-blank rows of the user's own bible-plan TSV (`~/Downloads/bible-plan.tsv`, 390

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/apparition-of-st-michael.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for the Apparition of St. Michael the
+# Archangel (May 8) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/05-08*.txt at
+# all). web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-08.txt,
+# English/Sancti/05-08.txt. Lectio4-6 is one continuous narrative (the
+# Monte Gargano apparition), no internal source break, combined into a
+# single reading. Each of Lectio4-6 has its own responsory in the
+# source; per this project's established "first one, when several
+# collapse" convention (see octave-readings.ts), only Responsory4 is
+# kept.
+id: apparition-of-st-michael
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Beátum Michaélem Archángelum sǽpius homínibus apparuísse, et sacrórum Librórum auctoritáte
+        et véteri Sanctórum traditióne comprobátur. Quam ob rem multis in locis facti memória
+        celebrátur. Eum, ut olim synagóga Judæórum, sic nunc custódem et patrónum Dei venerátur
+        Ecclésia. Gelásio autem primo, Pontífice máximo, in Apúlia in vértice Gargáni montis, ad
+        cujus radíces íncolunt Sipontíni, Archángeli Michaélis fuit illústris apparítio.
+
+
+        Factum est enim, ut ex grégibus armentórum Gargáni cujúsdam taurus longe discéderet; quem
+        diu conquisítum, in áditu spelúncæ hæréntem invenérunt. Cum vero quidam ex illis, ut taurum
+        confígeret, sagíttam emisísset retórta sagítta in ipsum récidit sagittárium. Quæ res cum
+        præséntes ac deínceps céteros tanto timóre affecísset, ut ad eam spelúncam própius accédere
+        nemo audéret, Sipontíni epíscopum cónsulunt; qui, indícto trium diérum jejúnio et oratióne,
+        rem a Deo respóndit quæri oportére.
+
+
+        Post tríduum Míchaël Archángelus epíscopum monet in sua tutéla esse eum locum, eóque indício
+        demonstrásse, velle ibi cultum Deo in sui et Angelórum memóriam adhibéri. Quare epíscopus una
+        cum cívibus ad eam spelúncam ire pergit. Quam cum in templi cujúsdam similitúdinem
+        conformátam vidíssent, locum illum divínis offíciis celebráre cœpérunt: qui multis póstea
+        miráculis illustrátus est. Nec ita multo post Bonifátius Papa, Romæ in summo circo, sancti
+        Michaélis ecclésiam dedicávit tértio Kaléndas Octóbris; quo die étiam ómnium Angelórum
+        memóriam Ecclésia celébrat. Hodiérnus autem dies Archángeli Michaélis apparitióne
+        consecrátus est.
+      en: >-
+        That the blessed Archangel Michael hath oftentimes been seen of men is attested on the
+        authority of the Holy Bible, and also by the ancient traditions of the Saints. For this
+        reason such visions are held in remembrance in many places. As of old time did the Synagogue
+        of the Jews, so now doth the Church of God venerate Michael as her watcher and defender. But
+        during the papacy of Gelasius I, the summit of Mount Gargano in Apulia, at whose foot lieth
+        the town of Siponto, was the scene of an extraordinary appearance of this same Archangel
+        Michael.
+
+
+        And it came to pass on this wise. A certain man had a bull grazing with the flock upon Mount
+        Gargano, and it strayed. And when they had sought it for a long while they found it jammed
+        in the mouth of a cavern. Then one that stood there shot an arrow at it to slay it, but the
+        arrow turned round and came back against him that had shot it. They therefore that saw it,
+        and all those that heard it, were sore afraid because of that which had come to pass, so
+        that no man dared any more to draw near to the cavern. But when they had sought counsel of
+        the Bishop of Siponto, he answered, that it behoved to seek the interpretation from God, and
+        proclaimed three days of fasting and prayer.
+
+
+        After three days the Archangel Michael gave warning to the Bishop that that place was under
+        his protection, and that he had thus pointed out by a sign that he wished that worship
+        should be offered to God there, with remembrance of himself and of the Angels. Then the
+        Bishop and the citizens made haste and came to the cavern, and when they found that the form
+        thereof was somewhat after the fashion of a Church, they began to perform the public worship
+        of God therein, which sanctuary hath been glorified with many miracles. It was not long
+        after these things that Pope Boniface IV hallowed the Church of St. Michael on Hadrian's
+        Mole at Rome, on the 29th day of September, on the which day the Church also holdeth in
+        remembrance All Angels. But this present day is hallowed in remembrance of the manifestation
+        of the Archangel Michael.
+    responsory:
+      la: "Hic est Míchaël Archángelus, princeps milítiæ Angelórum, * Cujus honor præstat benefícia populórum, et orátio perdúcit ad regna cælórum.\nV. Archángelus Míchaël præpósitus paradísi, quem honoríficant Angelórum cives.\nR. Cujus honor præstat benefícia populórum, et orátio perdúcit ad regna cælórum."
+      en: "This is Michael, who to battle leads the armies of the skies; * Whosoever on him calleth blessed within his wardship lies, his a prayer whose voice availing aids from earth toward heaven to rise.\nV. The Archangel Michael is the Vice-Roy of Paradise, and the Angels that are the dwellers therein, do hold him in worship.\nR. Whosoever on him calleth blessed within his wardship lies, his a prayer whose voice availing aids from earth toward heaven to rise."
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/finding-of-st-stephen.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 readings for the Finding of St. Stephen, Protomartyr
+# (Aug 3) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/08-03*.txt at all).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-03.txt, English/Sancti/08-03.txt.
+#
+# Lectio1-3 (Acts 7:51-54, 55-58, 59 + 8:1-2) is one continuous
+# scriptural excerpt (Stephen's own martyrdom, from Acts), no internal
+# break, combined into one reading with citation. Lectio4-5 (the finding
+# of the relics under Honorius) is a second continuous account, combined.
+# Lectio6 (St. Augustine, City of God, Bk. 22 ch. 8) is a third, distinct
+# source. Responsories are all `@Sancti/12-26` cross-references (this
+# day's proper is otherwise borrowed wholesale from St. Stephen's Dec 26
+# feast) — not transcribed here since that source file's own responsory
+# text wasn't independently pulled for this pass.
+id: finding-of-st-stephen
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    citation: { la: "Act 7:51-54; 55-58; 59; 8:1-2", en: "Acts 7:51-54; 55-58; 59; 8:1-2" }
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Dura cervice et incircumcisis córdibus et áuribus, vos semper Spiritui Sancto resístitis:
+        sicut patres vestri, ita et vos. Quem prophetárum non sunt persecúti patres vestri? Et
+        occidérunt eos, qui prænuntiábunt de adventu Justi, cujus vos nunc proditores et homicidæ
+        fuistis, qui accepístis legem in dispositióne Angelórum et non custodistis. Audiéntes autem
+        hæc, disseccabántur córdibus suis, et stridébant déntibus in eum.
+
+
+        Cum autem esset plenus Spíritu Sancto, inténdens in cælum, vidit glóriam Dei, et Jesum
+        stantem a dextris Dei. Et ait: Ecce video cælos apertos, et Fílium hóminis stantem a dextris
+        Dei. Exclamántes autem voce magna, continuérunt aures suas, et ímpetum fecérunt unanímiter in
+        eum. Et ejiciéntes eum extra civitátem lapidábant: et testes deposuérunt vestiménta sua secus
+        pedes adolescentis, qui vocabátur Saulus. Et lapidábant Stephanum, invocántem et dicéntem:
+        Dómine Jesu, suscipe spíritum meum.
+
+
+        Positis autem genibus, clamávit voce magna: Dómine, ne statuas illis hoc peccátum. Et cum hoc
+        dixísset, obdormívit in Dómino. Saulus autem erat consentiens neci ejus. Facta est autem in
+        illa die persecútio magna in ecclésia quæ erat Jerosolymis; et omnes dispersi sunt per
+        regiónes Judææ et Samaríæ, præter Apóstolos. Curavérunt autem Stephanum viri timorati, et
+        fecérunt planctum magnum super eum.
+      en: >-
+        You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost: as
+        your fathers did, so do you also. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted?
+        And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One; of whom you have been
+        now the betrayers and murderers: who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and
+        have not kept it. Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed
+        with their teeth at him.
+
+
+        But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looking up steadfastly to heaven, saw the glory of
+        God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. And he said: Behold, I see the heavens
+        opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. And they crying out with a
+        loud voice, stopped their ears, and with one accord ran violently upon him. And casting him
+        forth without the city, they stoned him; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the
+        feet of a young man, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, invoking, and saying:
+        Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
+
+
+        And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: Lord, lay not this sin to their
+        charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his
+        death. And at that time there was raised a great persecution against the church which was at
+        Jerusalem; and they were all dispersed through the countries of Judea, and Samaria, except
+        the apostles. And devout men took order for Stephen's funeral, and made great mourning over
+        him.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Sanctórum córpora Stephani Protomártyris, Gamaliélis, Nicodémi et Abibónis, quæ diu in
+        obscúro ac sórdido loco jacúerant, Honorio imperatóre, Luciáno presbytero divínitus admónito,
+        invénta sunt prope Jerosolymam. Cui Gamaliel cum in somnis apparuísset, gravi quadam et
+        præclára senis spécie, locum jacéntium córporum commonstrávit, imperans ut Joánnem
+        Jerosolymitanum antístitem adíret, agerétque cum eo ut honestius illa córpora sepelirentur.
+
+
+        Quibus auditis Jerosolymórum antístes, finitimárum urbium epíscopis presbyterisque
+        convocatis, ad locum pergit; defossos lóculos ínvenit, unde suavíssimus odor efflabátur.
+        Cujus rei fama commóta, magna hóminum multitúdo eo convénit, multique ex variis morbis ægroti
+        ac débiles sani et íntegri domum rediérunt. Sacrum autem sancti Stephani corpus, quod summa
+        tunc celebritate in sanctam ecclésiam Sion illátum est, sub Theodosio junióre
+        Constantinópolim, inde Romam, Pelagio primo summo Pontífice, translátum, in agro Verano in
+        sepúlcro sancti Lauréntii Mártyris collocátum est.
+      en: >-
+        In the reign of the Emperor Honorius, a Priest named Lucian received a message from God, in
+        consequence of which discovery was made of the bodies of the Saints Stephen the First
+        Martyr, Gamaliel, Nicodemus, and Abibon, which had long been lying unknown and unheeded.
+        Lucian was asleep when Gamaliel appeared to him in a dream as a tall comely old man of
+        worshipful presence, told him where the bodies were lying, and bade him go to John, Patriarch
+        of Jerusalem, and deal with him that they might have more honourable burial.
+
+
+        When the Patriarch of Jerusalem heard it, he called together Bishops and Priests from the
+        neighbouring cities, and betook himself to the place, where he found the tombs hewn in the
+        rock, and a right sweet savour flowing forth from them. The thing being noised abroad, a
+        great multitude of people came together, and many that were sick and weak of diverse
+        diseases returned home whole. The sacred body of holy Stephen was then carried with great
+        pomp to the holy Church of Zion. Under the Emperor Theodosius the Younger it was taken to
+        Constantinople, and during the Popedom of Pelagius I it was brought to Rome, where it has
+        been laid in the sepulchre of the holy Martyr Lawrence in the Veranian Field.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, City of God, Book 22, ch. 8"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Ad aquas Tibilitanas, episcopo afferénte Projecto relíquias Mártyris gloriosíssimi Stephani,
+        ad ejus memóriam veniebat magnæ multitúdinis concursus et occúrsus. Ibi cæca mulier, ut ad
+        episcopum portántem pígnora sacra ducerétur, orávit: flores, quos ferebat, dedit; recepit,
+        óculis admóvit, prótinus vidit. Stupéntibus qui áderant, præibat exsultans, viam carpens et
+        viæ ducem ulterius non requírens. Memoráti memóriam Mártyris, quæ pósita est in castello
+        Synicénsi, quod Hipponénsi coloniæ vicinum est, ejusdem loci Lucillus epíscopus, pópulo
+        præcedénte atque sequente, portábat; fístula, cujus molestia jamdiu laboraverat, et
+        familiaríssimi sui médici, qui eam secaret, opperiebátur manus, illíus piæ sarcinæ vectatióne
+        repénte sanáta est.
+      en: >-
+        When the Bishop Projectus brought some relics of that most glorious Martyr Stephen to
+        Tibilis, a great multitude came together and went out to meet the shrine. A blind woman
+        prayed to be led to the Bishop who was bearing the hallowed deposit. She laid on the relics
+        the flowers which she was carrying, took them up again, touched her eyes with them and
+        forthwith saw. She went forward rejoicing, at the head of the amazed procession, choosing her
+        own path, and needing no more that any should lead her. I remember also the shrine of this
+        same Martyr which hath been placed in the town of Synica, hard by this city of Hippo.
+        Lucillus, Bishop of that place, was carrying it, with a multitude going before and following
+        after when, all of a sudden, by bearing this hallowed burden, he was healed of the emerods,
+        from which he was even then suffering, and which were being treated by a physician, an
+        intimate friend of his, who was about to cut them.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-basilides-cyrinus-nabor-and-nazarius.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and
+# Nazarius, Martyrs (June 12) — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain
+# Sancti/06-12.txt is a different, later saint (St. John of San Facundo,
+# canonized 1690) who displaced these martyrs on the general calendar's
+# own June 12 slot; their content survives at the suffixed sibling file
+# (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle").
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-12o.txt, English/Sancti/06-12o.txt.
+# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source.
+# English source text cuts off mid-sentence ("but, as the creatures
+# would not touch them," then straight to &teDeum) — the final clause
+# below completes the sentence following the Latin, so marked draft
+# rather than verified for English.
+id: ss-basilides-cyrinus-nabor-and-nazarius
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor et Nazarius, Romani milites, nobiles genere, et virtute illustres,
+        christiana religione suscepta, cum Christum Dei Filium, Diocletiano imperatore,
+        prædicarent, ab Aurelio præfecto Urbis comprehensi, et ut diis sacra facerent admoniti, ejus
+        jussa contemnentes, missi sunt in carcerem. Quibus orantibus, cum subito clarissima lux
+        oborta omnium oculis, qui ibidem essent, carcerem collustrasset: illo cælesti splendore
+        commotus Marcellus custodiæ præpositus, multique alii, Christo Domino crediderunt. Verum
+        postea e carcere emissi, ab imperatore Maximiano, cum ejus étiam neglecto imperio, unum
+        Christum Deum et Dominum in ore haberent, scorpionibus cruciati iterum conjiciuntur in
+        vincula: unde septimo die educti, et ante pedes imperatoris constituti, perstiterunt in
+        irrisione inanium deorum, Jesum Christum Deum constantissime confitentes. Quam ob rem
+        damnati, securi feriuntur. Quorum corpora feris objecta, nec ab illis tacta a Christianis
+        honorifice sepulta sunt.
+      en: >-
+        Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius were Roman soldiers, of illustrious birth, and
+        distinguished gallantry. Having embraced the Christian Religion, and being found publishing
+        that Christ was the Son of God, they were arrested by Aurelius, Prefect of Rome under the
+        Emperor Diocletian. As they despised his orders to sacrifice to the gods, they were
+        committed to prison. While they were at prayer there, a brilliant light broke forth before
+        the eyes of all that were there, and shone in all the prison. Marcellinus the keeper of the
+        prison and many others were moved by this heavenly glory to believe in the Lord Christ.
+        Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius were afterwards discharged out of the prison.
+        However, in the reign of the Emperor Maximian, when they set light by his commands also, and
+        had ever in their mouth that there is but one Christ, one God, and one Lord, they were
+        tormented with whips loaded with metal, and again cast into chains. Thence, on the seventh
+        day, they were brought out, and set before the Emperor, and there still persisted in mocking
+        at the foolish idols, and declaring that Jesus Christ is God. They were accordingly condemned
+        to death and beheaded. Their bodies were given to wild beasts to eat, but, as the creatures
+        would not touch them, they were reverently buried by the Christians.
+    status: { la: verified, en: draft }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-cornelius-and-cyprian.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 readings for Ss. Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian,
+# Bishop, Martyrs (Sep 16) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/09-16*.txt
+# at all). web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-16.txt,
+# English/Sancti/09-16.txt. Lectio4-5 (Cornelius's own vita) combined
+# into one reading, no internal break. Lectio6 (Cyprian's vita, drawn
+# from St. Jerome's De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, ch. 67) is a
+# genuinely distinct source/saint, kept separate. No responsory given.
+id: ss-cornelius-and-cyprian
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Cornélius Romanus, Gallo et Volusiáno imperatóribus pontificátum gerens, cum Lucina, femina
+        sanctíssima, córpora Apostolórum Petri et Pauli e catacumbis in opportuniórem locum
+        tránstulit; ac Pauli corpus Lucina in suo prædio via Ostiénsi, prope eum locum, ubi fuerat
+        gládio percússus, collocávit; Cornélius Principis Apostolórum corpus non longe inde, ubi
+        crucifixus fuerat, repósuit. Quod cum ad imperatóres delátum esset, et Pontifice auctore
+        multos fíeri Christiános, mittitur is in exsílium ad Centumcellas; ubi eum sanctus Cyprianus,
+        epíscopus Carthaginiénsis, per litteras est consolatus.
+
+
+        Hoc autem christianæ caritátis offícium cum frequens alter alteri persólveret, deteriórem in
+        partem id accipiéntes imperatóres, accersítum Romam Cornelium tamquam de majestáte reum
+        plumbátis cædi, raptumque ad Martis simulacrum, ei sacrificáre jubent. Quam impietátem cum
+        ille detestarétur, ei caput abscissum est décimo octavo Kalendas Octobris. Cujus corpus
+        beáta Lucina, clericis adjutóribus, humávit in arenaria prædii sui prope cœmetérium Callísti.
+        Vixit in pontificatu annos circiter duos.
+      en: >-
+        Cornelius was a Roman who held the Papacy during the reign of the Emperors Gallus and
+        Volusian. He, and that most holy Lady Lucina, took the bodies of the Apostles Peter and Paul
+        out of the Catacombs and put them in more convenient places. Lucina laid the body of Paul in
+        a farm of her own upon the road to Ostia, hard by the place where he had received the
+        sword-stroke. Cornelius placed that of the Prince of the Apostles hard by where he had been
+        crucified. When this was told to the Emperors, and likewise that Cornelius was the means of
+        making many Christians, he was banished to Civitavecchia, where Cyprian, the holy Bishop of
+        Carthage, comforted him by letters.
+
+
+        They continued thus to write often one to the other, till the Emperors took in bad part these
+        exchanges of Christian love, and sent for Cornelius to Rome. There they commanded him to be
+        lashed with scourges loaded with lead as though he were a traitor, and then to be carried to
+        offer sacrifice before the image of Mars. He firmly refused to commit this great wickedness,
+        and was forthwith beheaded, upon the 14th day of September. The blessed Lucina, with the help
+        of the clergy, buried his body in the sand-pit on her own farm, near the Cemetery of
+        Callistus. He lived as Pope about two years.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Jerome, Priest, De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, ch. 67"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Cyprianus, Afer, primum gloriose rhetoricam docuit. Exinde, suadénte presbytero Cæcílio, a
+        quo et cognoméntum sortitus est, christianus factus, omnem substantiam suam paupéribus
+        erogávit. Ac post non multum témporis, eléctus in presbyterum, étiam epíscopus
+        Carthaginiénsis constitútus est. Hujus ingenii superfluum est indicem téxere, cum sole
+        clarióra sint ejus opera. Passus est sub Valeriáno et Gallieno princípibus, persecutióne
+        octava, eodem die quo Romæ Cornélius, sed non eodem anno.
+      en: >-
+        Cyprian was an African. He was first distinguished as a teacher of Rhetoric. He afterwards
+        became a Christian at the persuasion of the Priest Caecilius, whose surname he took, and
+        parted all his goods among the poor. It was not long before he was chosen a Priest, and then
+        made Bishop of Carthage. It would be idle to enlarge upon his wit, seeing that his works are
+        as well known as the sun. He suffered under the Emperors Valerian and Gallienus, in the
+        eighth persecution, and upon the same day, though not in the same year, that Cornelius
+        testified at Rome.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-cyprian-and-justina.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Cyprian and Justina, Martyrs (Sep 26)
+# — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/09-26*.txt at all; the "n" suffix
+# variant at this date is a modern 20th-c. feast, not relevant).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-26.txt, English/Sancti/09-26.txt.
+# Lectio2-3 is one continuous account, no internal break, combined into
+# a single reading. No responsory given.
+id: ss-cyprian-and-justina
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Cypriánus, primum magus, póstea Martyr, cum Justínam, christiánam Vírginem, quam júvenis
+        quidam ardénter amábat, cantiónibus ac venefíciis ad ejus libídinis assénsum allícere
+        conarétur, dæmonem consúluit quanam id re cónsequi posset. Cui dæmon respóndit nullam illi
+        artem processúram advérsus eos, qui vere Christum cólerent. Quo respónso commótus Cypriánus,
+        veheménter dolére cœpit vitæ superióris institútum. Itaque, relíctis mágicis ártibus, se
+        totum ad Christi Dómini fidem convértit.
+
+
+        Quam ob causam una cum Vírgine Justína comprehénsus est, et ambo cólaphis flagellísque cæsi
+        sunt; mox in cárcerem conjécti, si forte senténtiam commutárent. Verum, inde póstea emíssi,
+        cum in christiána religióne constantíssimi reperiréntur, in sartáginem plenam fervéntis
+        picis, ádipis et ceræ injécti sunt. Demum Nicomedíæ secúri feriúntur. Quorum projécta córpora
+        cum sex dies inhumáta jacuíssent noctu quidam nautæ clam ea in navem impósita Romam
+        portavérunt. Ac primum in prædio Rufínæ nóbilis féminæ sepúlta sunt; póstea, transláta in
+        Urbem, in basílica Constantiniána cóndita sunt prope baptistérium.
+      en: >-
+        Cyprian was firstly a warlock and lastly a Martyr. A certain young man having a violent lust
+        after a Christian maiden named Justina, employed him to excite her to join in this lewdness,
+        by dint of incantations and philters. Cyprian thereupon asked counsel of the devil, how he
+        might best gain that end. But the devil answered him that these arts are only thrown away
+        upon true worshippers of Christ. This answer troubled Cyprian, and he began to repent
+        heartily of the course of life he had hitherto led. And then he forsook his arts magic, and
+        gave himself wholly up to the faith of the Lord Christ.
+
+
+        For this cause, he and the Virgin Justina were arrested together, beaten with blows and
+        scourging, and cast into prison, if haply they might change their mind. Being brought out of
+        the prison, but still standing fast in their Christian religion, they were dipped in a vessel
+        full of hot pitch, fat, and wax, and in the end beheaded, at Nicomedia. Their bodies were
+        thrown out, and lay unburied for the space of six days, at the end of which time some sailors
+        took them secretly by night on board a ship and carried them to Rome. They were first buried
+        on the farm of the noble Lady Rufina, but afterwards brought into the city, where they lie
+        hard by the Baptistery in the Church of Constantine.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-dionysius-and-companions.yml

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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 }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-euphemia-lucia-and-geminianus.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Euphemia, Lucy, and Geminian, Martyrs
+# (Sep 16) — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/09-16.txt is a
+# different saint pairing (Ss. Cornelius and Cyprian, sourced separately
+# in ss-cornelius-and-cyprian.yml) who share this date on the general
+# calendar; Euphemia/Lucy/Geminian's own content is at the suffixed
+# sibling file (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical
+# wrinkle").
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-16cc.txt, English/Sancti/09-16cc.txt.
+# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source.
+id: ss-euphemia-lucia-and-geminianus
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Euphemia, Lúcia et Geminianus, in persecutióne Diocletiáni, non eodem loco, sed eodem die,
+        martyrio coronáti sunt. Euphemia Virgo apud Chalcédonem, Prisco proconsule, varia
+        tormentórum genera, virgárum, equulei, rotárum, ignis constanter passa; demum béstiis
+        objecta, una ex iis morsum sancto corpori infigente, ceteris pedes ejus lambéntibus,
+        immaculátum spíritum Deo réddidit. Lúcia, vidua Romana, a fílio Eutropio quod Christum multos
+        annos coluísset accusata, in ollam pice ac plumbo ferventuem dimittitur; unde incólumis
+        evadens, cum ferro plumboque oneráta per Urbem ducerétur, Geminianum, nóbilem virum,
+        constántia fidei et martyrii ad Christum convértit. Quem étiam cum multis aliis ad fidem
+        perductis, varie tortum, gloriosi martyrii, abscisso cápite, socium hábuit. Quorum córpora
+        Maxima, mulier christiana, honorifice sepelívit.
+      en: >-
+        Euphemia, Lucy, and Geminian were all crowned with Martyrdom in the persecution under
+        Diocletian, upon the same day, though not in the same place. Euphemia was a maiden of
+        Chalcedon, who suffered diverse tortures under the Proconsul Priscus. She endured
+        unflinchingly the rods, the rack, the wheels, and the fire, and in the end was thrown to
+        wild beasts. These all licked her feet, save one, which gave her holy body such a bite, that
+        she forthwith resigned her guileless spirit to God. Lucy was a widow at Rome, who was
+        accused by her own son Eutropius, for that she had for many years worshipped Christ. She was
+        put into a vessel of hot pitch and lead, but came forth unhurt. As she was being haled
+        through the city loaded with iron and lead, the sight of her faith and unwavering
+        testification turned to Christ the nobleman Geminian. He was one of many whom she had
+        brought to the faith, and she had him for a comrade in her glorious martyrdom, for he was
+        diverse ways tormented, and then beheaded. Their bodies were given honourable burial by the
+        Christian lady Maxima.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-faustinus-and-jovita.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Faustinus and Jovita, Martyrs (Feb 15)
+# — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/02-15*.txt at all).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/02-15.txt, English/Sancti/02-15.txt. Single
+# lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no responsory
+# given in the source.
+id: ss-faustinus-and-jovita
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Faustinus et Jovita fratres, nobiles Brixiani, in multis Italiæ urbibus, quo vincti sæviente
+        Trajani persecutione ducebantur, acerbissima supplicia perpessi, fortes in christianæ fidei
+        confessione perstiterunt. Nam Brixiæ diu vinculis constricti, feris étiam objecti in
+        ignemque conjecti, et a bestiis et a flamma íntegri et incolumes servati sunt. Inde vero
+        eisdem catenis colligati Mediolanum venerunt; ubi eorum fides tentata exquisitissimis
+        tormentis, tamquam igne aurum, in cruciatibus magis enituit. Postea Romam missi, ab Evaristo
+        Pontifice confirmati, ibi quoque crudelissime torquentur. Denique perducti Neápolim, in ea
+        étiam urbe varie cruciati, vinctis manibus pedibusque in mare demerguntur; unde per Angelos
+        mirabiliter erepti sunt. Quare multos et constantia in tormentis et miraculorum virtute ad
+        Christi fidem converterunt. Postrémo reducti Brixiam initio suscepti ab Hadriano imperii,
+        securi percussi, illustrem martyrii coronam acceperunt.
+      en: >-
+        Faustinus and Jovita were brothers, born of a noble family at Brescia. While Trajan's
+        persecution was raging, they were taken about in chains from one city of Italy to another,
+        and exhibited in torture in each. This cruelty utterly failed to silence their confession
+        of Christ, Whom they preached by their sufferings in every place where they were shown.
+        They were afterwards kept for a long time at Brescia, where they were exhibited with wild
+        beasts, and tormented with fire. Being both still alive, they were brought to Milan, without
+        their chains having ever been taken off. At Milan they were tortured again with every
+        invention of cruelty that could be devised. Nevertheless the great power of their faith made
+        them more than conquerors, shining even as gold tried in the furnace. From Milan they were
+        brought to Rome, where they were confirmed by Pope Evaristus, and where they were put to the
+        torture again with extreme barbarity. They were afterwards shown in public at Naples, where
+        the tormentors displayed their skill in diverse ways upon them. Here they were thrown
+        chained into the sea, but the angels delivered them. Their stations of suffering, by their
+        God-like patience, and the wonderful power displayed in them, had now turned many souls to
+        Jesus. In the end they were carried back to Brescia, and, when Hadrian took the empire, they
+        were put to death by the axe at that place. The crown of martyrdom which they won is
+        glorious.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-felix-and-adauctus.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Felix and Adauctus, Martyrs (Aug 30)
+# — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/08-30.txt is a different, later
+# saint (St. Rose of Lima, canonized 1671) who displaced Felix and
+# Adauctus on the general calendar's own Aug 30 slot; their content
+# survives at the suffixed sibling file (see memory
+# vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle").
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-30o.txt, English/Sancti/08-30o.txt.
+# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source.
+# English source has a stray-character artifact ("Him-who-was-added x
+# that is") — transcribed here with the stray "x" dropped.
+id: ss-felix-and-adauctus
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Felix, Diocletiano et Maximiano imperatoribus, propter susceptam Christi religionem
+        comprehensus, in Serapidis templum adductus est. Cui sacrificare cum juberetur, os simulacri
+        conspuit. Quo facto, statim serea statua corruit. Quod cum iterum ac tertio in sede Mercurii
+        Dianæque factum esset, impietatis et magicæ artis accusatus, equuleo torquetur. Mox ad
+        secundum ab Urbe lapidem via Ostiensi ducitur, ut securi feriretur. Cui inter viam oblatus
+        quidam Christianus, cum Felicem agnoscens ad martyrium duci videret, Ego quoque, clara voce
+        inquit, eadem, qua iste, lege vivo; ego eumdem Jesum Christum colo. Itaque Felicem osculatus,
+        cum eo securi percutitur, tertio Kalendas Septembris. Cujus nomen cum ignotum esset
+        Christianis, is Adaucti nomine nobilitatus est, quod sancto Martyri Felici adauctus sit ad
+        coronam.
+      en: >-
+        Felix was arrested in the reign of the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian, on the charge of
+        having embraced the Christian Faith, and was brought to the temple of Serapis. When he was
+        ordered to offer sacrifice, he spat in the face of the brazen idol, which thereupon fell
+        down. When this happened a second and third time in the temples of Mercury and Diana, he was
+        accused of impiety and magic, and tortured upon the rack. It was not long, however, before he
+        was led out to the second mile-stone upon the road to Ostia, to be smitten with the axe. As
+        they were on the way thither, they chanced to meet a certain Christian, who, when he knew
+        that Felix was going to finish his testimony, said aloud, I live by the same law as he doth;
+        I worship the same Christ Jesus. And therewith he kissed Felix, and they were beheaded
+        together, upon the 30th day of August. What the name of the second person was the Christians
+        never knew, and he is therefore honoured under the title of Him-who-was-added, that is,
+        added to the company of the Holy Martyr Felix in winning of the crown.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-gervase-and-protase.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Gervase and Protase, Martyrs (June 19)
+# — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/06-19.txt is a different, later
+# saint (St. Juliana Falconieri, canonized 1737) who displaced Gervase
+# and Protase on the general calendar's own June 19 slot; their content
+# survives at the suffixed sibling file (see memory
+# vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle").
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-19o.txt, English/Sancti/06-19o.txt.
+# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source.
+id: ss-gervase-and-protase
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Gervasius et Protasius, Vitalis et Valériæ fílii, quorum pater Ravennæ, mater Mediolani pro
+        Christi Dómini fide martyrium subiérunt, distributo paupéribus patrimonio, domesticos servos
+        libertáte donarunt. Quo facto Gentílium sacerdótes immane in illos conceptum ódium habebant.
+        Quare, cum Astasius comes in bellum proficisci vellet, hanc occasiónem perdéndi pios fratres
+        se nactos esse putavérunt. Itaque Astasio persuadent se a diis admonitos esse, nullo modo eum
+        in bello victórem futurum, nisi Gervasio et Protasio coactis Christum negare, eosdem ad
+        sacra diis facienda compélleret. Quod cum illi detestaréntur, Astasius imperávit Gervasium
+        tamdiu cædi, dum inter verbera exspiraret; Protasium fustibus contusum secúri pércuti jubet.
+        Quorum córpora Philippus Christi servus clam sústulit et in suis ædibus sepelívit: quæ
+        póstea sanctus Ambrosius, Dei mónitu invénta, in loco sacro et insígni collocanda curávit.
+        Passi sunt Mediolani décimo tertio Kalendas Julii.
+      en: >-
+        Gervase and Protase were the sons of Vitalis and Valeria, both of whom testified even unto
+        death for the Lord Christ's sake, the father at Ravenna, and the mother at Milan. After the
+        victory of their parents, Gervase and Protase gave all the inheritance to the poor, and set
+        free their slaves. This act of theirs stirred up against them a savage hatred on the part of
+        the heathen priests, and when the Count Astasius was about setting forth to war, they
+        believed they had got a good occasion for the destruction of the two godly brethren. They
+        persuaded Astasius that their gods had revealed to them that he had no chance of conquering
+        in the war, unless he had first made Gervase and Protase to deny Christ and to offer
+        sacrifice to the gods. Being commanded so to do, they flatly refused, and Astasius then
+        ordered Gervase to be lashed until he died between the stripes, and Protase to be cudgelled
+        and beheaded. A servant of Christ named Philip took away their dead bodies by stealth, and
+        buried them in his own house, and, in after times, St. Ambrose, being warned of God, found
+        them, and bestowed them in an hallowed and honourable place. They suffered at Milan upon the
+        19th day of June.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-marius-martha-audifax-and-abachum.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Marius, Martha, Audifax, and Abachum,
+# Martyrs (Jan 19) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (source confirmed Tridentine,
+# not Monastic 1617: no 01-19*.txt under SanctiM at all; see memory
+# vu-matins-pre1955-saints).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-19.txt, English/Sancti/01-19.txt. Source
+# gives one single lesson (Lectio93, the reduced/simplex-feast form —
+# this saint's rank is Simplex, no separate 9-lesson set), a single
+# continuous account with no internal source break, transcribed whole.
+# No responsory given in the source file.
+id: ss-marius-martha-audifax-and-abachum
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Marius Persa, nobili loco natus, cum Martha cónjuge pari nobilitate, et duobus fíliis
+        Audíface et Abachum, Romam venit Cláudio imperatóre, ut Mártyrum sepúlcra venerarétur. Ibi
+        Christiános in víncula conjectos fovébant, et ópera ac facultátibus suis sustentábant, et
+        Sanctórum córpora sepeliebant. Quam ob rem comprehénsi omnes, cum nec impiórum minis nec
+        terróre commoveréntur, ut diis sacrificarent; primum fustibus debilitati, deínde funibus
+        attracti, tum admótis candéntibus, láminis combusti, et úngulis férreis excarnificáti sunt.
+        Postremo præcisis mánibus, et ad collum alligatis, ducti per mediam urbem, via Cornelia ad
+        tertium décimum ab Urbe milliárium, in eum locum, qui Nymphe dicebátur, necántur: ac primum
+        Martha, quæ virum ac fílios ad supplícia pro Jesu Christi fide constanter perferenda,
+        veheménter fuerat cohortáta; mox ceteris in eádem arenaria cervices abscindúntur, eorúmque
+        córpora conjiciúntur in ignem. Quæ semiusta, Felícitas matrona Romana nobilis, colligenda et
+        in suo prædio sepelienda curávit.
+      en: >-
+        Marius was a Persian of high rank, who came to Rome in the reign of the Emperor Claudius,
+        with his wife Martha, who was equally noble, and their two sons Audifax and Abachum, to
+        pray at the graves of the Martyrs. Here they comforted the Christians who were in prison,
+        and whom they relieved by their ministrations and alms, and buried the bodies of the
+        Saints. For these acts they were all arrested, but no threats or terrors could move them to
+        sacrifice to idols. They were accordingly mangled with clubs, and drawn with ropes, after
+        which they were burnt by applying plates of red-hot metal to their bodies, and their flesh
+        partly torn off with metal hooks. Lastly their hands were all cut off, and they were
+        fastened together by the neck, in which state they were driven through the city to the
+        thirteenth mile-stone on the Cornelian Way, a place now called Santa Ninfa, where they were
+        to die. Martha addressed a moving exhortation to her husband and sons to hold out bravely
+        to the last, for the love of Jesus Christ; and was then herself drowned. The other three
+        martyrs were next beheaded in the same sand-pit. Their bodies were thrown into a fire. The
+        lady Felicity of Rome collected the half-burnt remains, and caused them to be buried at her
+        own farm.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-nazarius-celsus-victor-and-innocent.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 readings for Ss. Nazarius and Celsus, Martyrs, St.
+# Victor I, Pope and Martyr, and St. Innocent I, Pope and Confessor
+# (July 28) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/07-28*.txt at all).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/07-28.txt, English/Sancti/07-28.txt.
+# Lectio4 (Nazarius and Celsus), Lectio5 (Victor I), and Lectio6
+# (Innocent I) are three distinct saints' vitae, genuine source changes,
+# kept as three separate readings. No responsory given.
+id: ss-nazarius-celsus-victor-and-innocent
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Nazarius, a beato Lino papa baptizatus, cum in Gálliam profectus esset, ibi Celsum púerum, a
+        se christiánis præceptis prius instructum, baptizávit. Qui una Trévirim euntes, Nerónis
+        persecutióne, in mare uterque dejícitur, unde mirabíliter evasérunt. Postea Mediolanum
+        veniéntes, cum ibi Christi fidem disseminárent, ab Anolino præfecto, constantíssime Christum
+        Deum confiténtes, cápite plectúntur: quorum córpora extra portam Romanam sepúlta sunt. Quæ
+        cum diu latuíssent, Dei mónitu a beato Ambrosio conspersa recénti sánguine sunt invénta,
+        tamquam si paulo ante martyrium passi essent; unde, in urbem translata, honorifico sepúlcro
+        contecta sunt.
+      en: >-
+        Nazarius was baptized by the blessed Pope Linus, and afterwards went to Gaul. There he met
+        with the boy Celsus, whom he instructed in the Christian law, and baptized. They went
+        together to Trier, and, in the persecution under Nero, were both thrown into the sea, from
+        which they had a marvellous escape. Later on, they came to Milan, where they spread the
+        Faith of Christ, and as they remained firm in declaring that He is God, the Prefect Anolinus
+        had them beheaded. Their bodies were buried outside the Roman gate, and lay long unknown,
+        till, by a revelation from God, Blessed Ambrose found them, smeared with fresh blood, as
+        though they had only a short time undergone martyrdom. They were taken up from thence,
+        carried into the city, and laid in an honourable sepulchre.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Victor in Africa natus, Sevéro imperatóre rexit Ecclésiam. Confirmávit decretum Pii primi,
+        ut sacrum Pascha die Dominico celebrarétur: qui ritus ut póstea in mores inducerétur, habita
+        sunt multis in locis concília; et in Nicæna dénique prima synodo sancítum est, ut Paschæ dies
+        festus post quartam décimam lunam agerétur, ne Christiáni Judæos imitari videréntur. Státuit
+        ut quavis aqua, modo naturali, si necessitas cógeret, quicúmque baptizari posset. Theódotum
+        Coriárium Byzantinum, docéntem Christum tantummodo hóminem fuísse, ejécit ex Ecclésia.
+        Scripsit de quæstióne Paschæ et alia quædam opúscula. Creávit duabus ordinatiónibus, mense
+        Decembri, presbyteros quatuor, diaconos septem, episcopos per diversa loca duodecim.
+        Martyrio coronátus, sepelítur in Vaticano, quinto Kalendas Augusti. Sedit annos novem,
+        mensem unum, dies viginti octo.
+      en: >-
+        Victor was by birth an African, and governed the Church in the time of the Emperor Severus.
+        He confirmed the decree of Pius I that the Holy Passover should be kept upon the Lord's Day.
+        To bring this rule into use, Councils were held in many places, and in the First Synod of
+        Nice it was decided that the Holy Passover Day should be kept after the 14th day of the
+        month (Nisan), lest the Christians should seem to be copying the Jews. Victor decided that
+        if need be, baptism can be administered with any water, as long as it be natural. He cast
+        out of the Church Theodotus the tanner, of Constantinople, who taught that Christ was
+        nothing but a man. He wrote upon the subject of the Passover, and some other small works. He
+        held two Ordinations in the month of December, wherein he ordained four Priests, seven
+        Deacons, and twelve Bishops for diverse places. He received the crown of his testimony, and
+        was buried at the Vatican on the 28th day of July. He sat in the throne of Peter nine years,
+        one month, and twenty-eight days.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Innocentius Albanénsis, sancti Hierónymi et Augustíni ætate flóruit. De quo ille ad
+        Demetríadem vírginem: Sancti Innocentii, qui apostolicæ cathedræ et beátæ memóriæ Anastasii
+        successor et fílius est, teneas fidem nec peregrinam, quamvis tibi prudens callídaque
+        videaris, doctrinam recipias. Eum, tamquam justum Lot subtractum Dei providéntia, ad
+        Ravennam servátum fuísse, scribit Orósius, ne Romani pópuli vidéret excidium. Is, Pelagio et
+        Cælestio damnatis, contra eórum hæresim decretum fecit, ut párvuli, ex christiana étiam
+        mulíere nati, per baptismum renasci debérent; ut in eis regeneratióne mundétur, quod
+        generatióne contraxérunt. Probávit etiam, ut Sábbato, ob memóriam Christi Dómini sepultúræ
+        jejunium servarétur. Sedit annos quíndecim, mensem unum, dies decem. Quatuor ordinatiónibus,
+        mense Decembri, creávit presbyteros trigínta, diaconos quíndecim, episcopos per diversa loca
+        quinquagínta quatuor. Sepultus est in cœmeterio ad Ursum pileátum.
+      en: >-
+        Innocent of Albano flourished in the time of St. Jerome and St. Augustine. Concerning him,
+        St. Jerome saith, writing to Demetrias: Keep firm hold on the faith of holy Innocent, who is
+        the heir and the child of the Apostolic See, and of Anastasius of blessed memory, and receive
+        not any strange doctrine, how wise and acute soever thou mayest count thyself. Orosius
+        writeth that God kept Innocent at Ravenna that he might not see the destruction of the Roman
+        people, even as righteous Lot was withdrawn by God's Providence. He condemned Pelagius and
+        Caelestius, and made a decree against their heresy, that little children, even those whose
+        mother was a Christian, must be born again in baptism, that the new birth may wash away in
+        them the stain which they have contracted in their conception. He approved also that a Fast
+        should be kept upon Saturday in memory of the Lord Christ's lying in the grave on that day.
+        He sat in the throne of Peter fifteen years, one month, and ten days. He held four
+        Ordinations in the month of December, and made therein thirty Priests, fifteen Deacons, and
+        forty-four Bishops for diverse places. He was buried in the Bear-and-Cap Cemetery.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-soter-and-caius.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 readings for Ss. Soter and Caius, Popes and Martyrs
+# (Apr 22) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/04-22*.txt at all).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/04-22.txt, English/Sancti/04-22.txt.
+# Lectio4 (Soter's own vita) and Lectio5 (Caius's own vita) are kept as
+# two separate readings — different saint, genuine source change, not a
+# split-for-slot-count case. Lectio6 (St. Ambrose's sermon) is its own
+# third reading, a different genre/source again. Lectio7-9 (not present
+# in this file, implicitly Common) skipped. No responsory given.
+id: ss-soter-and-caius
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Soter, Fundis in Campánia natus, sancívit ne sacræ vírgines vasa sacra et pallas attingerent,
+        neve thuris ministerio in ecclésia uteréntur. Idem státuit ut Christi corpus in Cœna Dómini
+        sumerétur ab ómnibus, iis exceptis, qui propter grave peccátum id fácere prohiberéntur.
+        Sedit in pontificatu annos tres, menses undecim, dies decem et octo. Martyrio coronátur sub
+        Marco Aurelio imperatóre, et in cœmeterio, quod póstea Callísti dictum est, sepelitur; more
+        majórum mense Decembri creátis presbyteris decem et octo, diáconis novem, epíscopis per
+        diversa loca undecim.
+      en: >-
+        Soter, a countryman of Fondi in Campania, succeeded the holy martyr Anicetus. It was he who
+        ordained that nuns should not touch the sacred vessels and linen of the Altar, nor serve
+        with the incense in the Church. He ordained likewise, that on the anniversary of the Lord's
+        Supper, every one should receive the Body of Christ, except those who were forbidden to do
+        so on account of grievous sin. He sat as Pope three years, eleven months, and eighteen days.
+        He was crowned with martyrdom under the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, and was buried after the
+        manner of them that had gone before him, in the Cemetery, which was afterwards called that
+        of St. Calixtus, having ordained in the month of December, after the manner of his
+        predecessors, eighteen Priests, nine Deacons, and eleven Bishops for diverse places.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Cajus Dálmata ex genere Diocletiáni imperatóris, constítuit ut his ordinum et honórum
+        gradibus in Ecclésia ad episcopátum ascenderétur: Ostiarii, Lectóris, Exorcistæ, Acólythi,
+        Subdiáconi, Diáconi, Presbýteri. Hic Diocletiáni crudelitátem in Christiános fúgiens,
+        aliquámdiu in spelúnca delituit; verum octo post annis una cum Gabino fratre martyrii corónam
+        consecutus est, cum sedísset annos duodecim, menses quatuor, dies quinque; creátis mense
+        Decembri presbyteris vigintiquinque, diáconis octo, epíscopis quinque. Sepultus est in
+        cœmeterio Callísti, décimo Kalendas Maji. Ejus memóriam Urbanus octavus in Urbe renovávit,
+        dírutam ecclésiam restituit; titulo, statióne et ipsíus relíquiis decorávit.
+      en: >-
+        Gaius was a Dalmatian and a kinsman of the Emperor Diocletian, and succeeded holy Eutychian.
+        It was he who ordained that the following should be the order of degrees in the Church
+        through which all should pass before they be made Bishop: first, Doorkeeper; second, Reader;
+        third, Exorcist; fourth, Acolyte; fifth, Subdeacon; sixth, Deacon; seventh, Priest. Caius
+        fled from the cruelties practiced by Diocletian against the Christians, and lay hid for a
+        while in a cave, but after eight years he and his brother Gabinus won the crown of
+        martyrdom. At that time he had sat in the chair of Peter twelve years, four months, and five
+        days, and had ordained in the month of December twenty-five Priests, eight Deacons, and
+        five Bishops. He was buried in the Cemetery of Calixtus. It was Urban VIII who renewed the
+        memorial of him in the city, rebuilt his Church, which had been in ruins, and distinguished
+        it by making it one of those whence the Cardinals take their titles, and of those which are
+        called "Stations," and enriching it with the relics of the Saint.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Sermon 22"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Dignum et congruum est, fratres, ut post lætítiam Paschæ, quam in Ecclésia celebrávimus,
+        gaudia nostra cum sanctis Martyribus conferámus; et iis annuntiémus Dominicæ resurrectiónis
+        glóriam, qui consortes sunt Dominicæ passiónis. Qui enim socii sunt contumeliæ, debent et
+        participes esse lætítiæ. Ita enim dicit beátus Apóstolus: Sicut socii passiónum estis, et
+        resurrectiónis eritis; si tolerábimus, inquit, et conregnábimus. Qui ergo toleravérunt mala
+        propter Christum, debent et glóriam habere cum Christo.
+      en: >-
+        Dearly beloved brethren, it is very meet and right that after the gladness of Easter, which
+        we have celebrated in the Church, we should mingle our own joy with the joy of the holy
+        Martyrs; yea, that we should tell of the glory of the Lord's rising again, to them that have
+        been made partakers of the Lord's sufferings. It truly must needs be that they which have
+        been partakers of His sufferings, should be also of His joy. For thus saith the blessed
+        Apostle: "As ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation."
+        (2 Cor. i. 7.) And again: "If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him." (2 Tim. ii. 12.) He,
+        therefore, that endureth sorrow for Christ, must needs also have glory with Christ.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-tryphon-and-companions.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Tryphon, Respicius, and Nympha,
+# Martyrs (Nov 10) — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/11-10.txt is a
+# different, later saint (St. Andrew Avellino, canonized 1712) who
+# displaced these martyrs on the general calendar's own Nov 10 slot;
+# their content survives at the suffixed sibling file (see memory
+# vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle").
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/11-10o.txt, English/Sancti/11-10o.txt.
+# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source.
+id: ss-tryphon-and-companions
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Tryphon, Decio imperatóre, cum Jesu Christi fidem prædicans, omnes ad ejus cultum perducere
+        conarétur, a Decii satellítibus comprehénsus, primum equuleo torquétur et ungulis férreis
+        excarnificátur; deínde, sublimibus pédibus candéntibus clavis confíxus, fustibus cæditur, et,
+        admotis facibus ardéntibus, aduritur. Quæ cum ómnia fortiter ferentem vidísset Respicius
+        tribunus, ad Christi Dómini fidem convérsus, statim se christianum esse palam proféssus est.
+        Qui, varie cruciatus, una cum Tryphone rapitur ad Jovis simulacrum; quæ statua, Tryphone
+        orante, cóncidit. Quare plumbátis crudelíssime contúsi, nobilíssimum martyrium consecúti sunt
+        quarto Idus Novembris. Eodem die virgo quædam, cui nomen Nympha, cum Jesum Christum verum
+        esse Deum clara voce testarétur, martyrii palmam ad virginitátis corónam adjunxit.
+      en: >-
+        In the reign of the Emperor Decius one Tryphon strove by preaching the faith of Jesus Christ
+        to bring all men to worship Him. For this cause he was taken by the servants of Decius. He
+        was first tormented upon the rack, and flesh stripped from him with iron claws; then red-hot
+        nails were driven into his insteps, he was beaten with cudgels and scarified with lighted
+        torches. The sight of the courage wherewith he bore all, brought the Prefect Respicius to
+        believe in the Lord Christ, and he forthwith declared himself a Christian. He also was
+        diverse ways tormented, and then led along with Tryphon before the statue of Jupiter. When
+        Tryphon prayed, the statue fell down. Then were both Tryphon and Respicius savagely lashed
+        with whips loaded with lead, until they grasped the crown of a most glorious testimony, upon
+        the 10th day of November. Upon the same day a certain maiden named Nympha, having openly
+        confessed that Jesus Christ is very God, added the palm of martyrdom to the crown of
+        virginity.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-agnes-secunda.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr, Second Feast
+# (Jan 28) — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/01-28.txt is a
+# different, later saint (St. Peter Nolasco) who displaced this second
+# Agnes feast on the general calendar's own Jan 28 slot; her content
+# survives at the suffixed sibling file (see memory
+# vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle").
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-28t.txt, English/Sancti/01-28t.txt.
+# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no
+# responsory given in the source.
+id: st-agnes-secunda
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Beáta Agnes, paréntibus ad ejus sepúlcrum assidue vigilántibus, quadam nocte choro
+        vírginum comitáta cum apparuísset, sic ad eos locuta dícitur: Ne me, paréntes, mortuam
+        lugeátis; nam una cum his virgínibus vivo apud illum in cælis, quem in terris tota mente
+        diléxi. Cum aliquot post annos Constantia, Constantini imperatóris fília, insanábili
+        úlceri medicinam quærens, nondum christiana ad idem sepúlcrum accessísset; obdórmiscens
+        sibi audíre visa est vocem hanc Agnetis: Constanter age, Constántia: crede in Jesum
+        Christum Fílium Dei, qui te sanam fáciet. Quæ sanata, paulo post una cum multis ex família
+        imperatóris baptismum suscípiens, ibi ecclésiam nómine beátæ Agnétis ædificávit.
+      en: >-
+        The night when the parents of the blessed Agnes were watching at her grave, she appeared
+        to them in company with a band of virgins, and said to them: Father and Mother, weep not
+        for me as though I were dead; for now these virgins and I live together in Him Whose love
+        was my whole life upon earth. Some years afterwards, Constance, the daughter of the Emperor
+        Constantine, being sick of an incurable ulcer, betook herself to the said grave, although
+        she was not yet a Christian, and as she lay by it and slept, she seemed to hear the voice
+        of Agnes, saying to her: Constance, be of good courage, believe in Jesus Christ the Son of
+        God, and He will make thee whole. The Princess, being healed, was baptized, along with many
+        others of the Emperor's family and household, and afterwards built over the grave of the
+        blessed Agnes a Church named in her honour.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-anicetus.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Anicetus, Pope and Martyr (Apr 17) —
+# pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/04-17*.txt at all).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/04-17.txt. Single lesson (simplex-feast
+# Lectio93), one continuous account, no responsory given in the source.
+# English/Sancti/04-17.txt is a source bug (contains the same Latin text
+# under [Lectio93], not a translation) — en text below is this project's
+# own translation, not the reference engine's, so marked draft rather
+# than verified per this project's "prefer text over missing" policy.
+id: st-anicetus
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Anicétus Syrus, imperatóre Marco Aurélio Antoníno, præfuit Ecclésiæ. Decrévit ne clérici
+        comam nutrírent. Quínquies mense Decémbri ordinávit presbyteros decem et septem, diáconos
+        quátuor, epíscopos per divérsa loca novem. Vixit in pontificátu annos octo, menses octo,
+        dies vigínti quátuor. Propter Christi fidem martyrio coronátus, sepúltus est via Appia in
+        cœmetério, quod póstea Callísti appellátum est, décimo quinto Kaléndas Majas.
+      en: >-
+        Anicetus, a Syrian, presided over the Church in the reign of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius
+        Antoninus. He decreed that clerics should not wear their hair long. In the month of December
+        he held five ordinations, ordaining seventeen priests, four deacons, and nine bishops for
+        various places. He held the pontificate for eight years, eight months, and twenty-four days.
+        Crowned with martyrdom for the faith of Christ, he was buried on the Appian Way in the
+        cemetery afterwards called that of Callistus, on the 17th of April.
+    status: { la: verified, en: draft }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-anthony-of-padua.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Anthony of Padua, Confessor and
+# Doctor of the Church (June 13) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no
+# SanctiM/06-13*.txt at all).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-13.txt, English/Sancti/06-13.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
+# for these lessons in the source (Responsory9 present is the
+# Dominican-rite variant for a different lesson, not applicable here).
+id: st-anthony-of-padua
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Antónius, Ulyssipóne in Lusitánia honéstis ortus paréntibus, et ab iis pie educátus,
+        adoléscens, institútum canonicórum regulárium suscépit. Sed, cum córpora beatórum quinque
+        Mártyrum fratrum Minórum Conímbriam transferéntur, qui paulo ante apud Marróchium pro
+        Christi fide passi erant, martýrii desidério incénsus ad Franciscánum órdinem transívit. Mox
+        eódem ardóre impúlsus, ad Saracénos ire perréxit; sed, advérsa valetúdine afflíctus et redíre
+        coáctus, cum navi ad Hispániæ líttora ténderet, ventórum vi in Sicíliam delátus est.
+
+
+        Assísium e Sicília ad capítulum generále venit: inde in erémum montis Pauli in Æmília
+        secéssit, ubi divínis contemplatiónibus, jejúniis et vigíliis diu vacávit. Póstea, sacris
+        ordínibus initiátus et ad prædicándum Evangélium missus, dicéndi sapiéntia et cópia tantum
+        profécit, tantámque sui admiratiónem commóvit, ut eum summus Póntifex aliquándo concionántem
+        áudiens, arcam Testaménti appellárit. In primis vero hǽreses summa vi profligávit,
+        ideóque perpétuus hæreticórum málleus est vocátus.
+
+
+        Primus ex suo ordine, ob doctrínæ præstántiam, Bonóniæ et álibi sacras lítteras est
+        interpretátus, fratrúmque suórum stúdiis præfuit. Multis vero peragrátis provínciis, anno
+        ante óbitum Patávium venit, ubi illústria sanctitátis suæ monuménta relíquit. Dénique magnis
+        labóribus pro glória Dei perfúnctus, méritis et miráculis clarus obdormívit in Dómino Idibus
+        Júnii. Quem Gregórius nonus, Póntifex máximus, sanctórum Confessórum número adscrípsit, et
+        Pius duodécimus, ex Sacrórum Rítuum Congregatiónis consúlto, universális Ecclésiæ Doctórem
+        declarávit.
+      en: >-
+        Ferdinand de Bullones, afterwards called Anthony, was born of decent parents at Lisbon in
+        Portugal. They gave him a godly training, and while he was still a young man, he joined an
+        Institute of Canons Regular. However, when the bodies of the five holy martyred Friars
+        Minor, who had just suffered in Morocco for Christ's sake, were brought to Coimbra, the
+        desire to be himself a martyr took a strong hold upon him, and he left the Canons Regular
+        and became a Franciscan. The same yearning led him to attempt to go among the Saracens, but
+        he fell sick on the way, and, being obliged to turn back, the ship in which he had embarked
+        for Spain was driven by stress of weather to Sicily.
+
+
+        From Sicily he came to Assisi to attend the General Chapter of his Order, and thence
+        withdrew himself to the Hermitage of Monte Paolo near Bologna, where he gave himself up for
+        a long while to consideration of the things of God, to fastings, and to watchings. Being
+        afterwards ordained Priest and sent to preach the Gospel, his wisdom and fluency were very
+        marked, and drew on him such admiration of men, that the Pope, once hearing him preach,
+        called him The Ark of the Covenant. One of his chief points was to expend all his strength
+        in attacking heresies, whence he gained the name of the Heretics' everlasting Hammer.
+
+
+        He was the first of his Order who, on account of his excellent gift of teaching, publicly
+        lectured at Bologna on the interpretation of Holy Scripture, and directed the studies of his
+        brethren. He traveled through many provinces. The year before his death he came to Padua,
+        where he left some remarkable records of his holy life. After having undergone much toil for
+        the glory of God, full of good works and miracles, he fell asleep in the Lord upon the 13th
+        day of June. Pope Gregory IX enrolled his name among those of the Holy Confessors, and Pius
+        XII, on the advice of the Congregation of Sacred Rites, declared him a Doctor of the
+        universal Church.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-apollonia.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Apollonia, Virgin and Martyr (Feb 9) —
+# pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/02-09.txt is a different, later
+# saint (St. Cyril of Alexandria, added as a Doctor in 1882) who
+# displaced Apollonia on the general calendar's own Feb 9 slot; her
+# content survives at the suffixed sibling file (see memory
+# vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle").
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/02-09o.txt, English/Sancti/02-09o.txt.
+# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no
+# responsory given in the source.
+id: st-apollonia
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Apollónia virgo Alexandrína, sub Décio imperatóre, cum ingravescénte jam ætáte ad idóla
+        sisterétur, ut eis veneratiónem adhibéret; illis contémptis, Jesum Christum verum Deum
+        coléndum esse prædicábat. Quam ob rem omnes ei contúsi sunt et evúlsi dentes; ac, nisi
+        Christum detestáta deos cóleret, accénso rogo combustúros vivam mináti sunt ímpii carnífices.
+        Quibus illa, se quamvis mortem pro Jesu Christi fide subitúram, respóndit. Itaque
+        comprehénsa ut comburerétur, cum paulísper, quasi delíberans quid agéndum esset, stetísset,
+        ex illórum mánibus elápsa, álacris in ignem sibi parátum, majóri Spíritus Sancti flamma
+        intus accénsa, se injécit. Unde brevi, consúmpto córpore, puríssimus spíritus in cælum ad
+        sempitérnam martyrii corónam evolávit.
+      en: >-
+        Apollonia was an aged virgin of Alexandria, who, in the reign of the Emperor Decius, was
+        brought before the idols to worship them, but refused, declaring that Christ Jesus is True
+        God, and that to Him worship is due. The cruel executioners beat and pulled out all her
+        teeth, and threatened to burn her alive if she would not deny Christ. To whom she answered,
+        that for Christ Jesus' sake she was ready to die. Being taken to the place of execution she
+        stood for a few moments as if in doubt, and then, the fire of the Holy Ghost burning up in
+        her heart, she broke from those that held her, and leapt of her own accord into the flames.
+        Her body was quickly consumed, and her soul departed pure to obtain the eternal crown of
+        martyrdom.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-blaise.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Blaise, Bishop and Martyr (Feb 3) —
+# pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/02-03*.txt at all).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/02-03.txt, English/Sancti/02-03.txt. Single
+# lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no responsory
+# given in the source.
+id: st-blaise
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Blásius, Sebáste in Arménia cum virtútum laude floréret, ejúsdem civitátis epíscopus
+        elígitur. Qui, quo témpore Diocletiánus insatiábilem crudelitátem in Christiános exercébat,
+        se in spelúncam ábdidit montis Argǽi; ubi támdiu látuit, dum ab Agricolái prǽsidis milítibus
+        venántibus deprehénsus et ad prǽsidem ductus, ejus jussu conjéctus est in víncula. Quo in
+        loco multos ægrótos sanávit, qui ad Blásium, ejus fama sanctitátis addúcti, deferebántur. In
+        illis puer fuit, qui, desperáta a médicis salúte, transvérsa spina fáucibus inhærénte,
+        ánimam agébat. Prodúctus autem ad prǽsidem Blásius semel et íterum, cum nec blandítiis nec
+        minis addúci posset, ut diis sacrificáret, primum virgis cæsus, deínde in equúleo férreis
+        pectínibus dilaniátus est; postrémo, dempto cápite, illústre fídei testimónium Christo
+        Dómino dedit, tértio Nonas Februárii.
+      en: >-
+        This Blaise was chosen Bishop of the city of Sebaste in Armenia, in which place he enjoyed
+        a great reputation for virtue. When Diocletian began to make the Christians the objects of
+        his insatiable cruelty, the Saint hid himself in a cave on Mount Argaeus, where he lay till
+        he was found by some of the soldiers of Agricolaus the governor, who were out hunting. He
+        was brought before the governor, who commanded him to be thrown into irons. While he was in
+        prison, Blaise healed many of the sick, who were brought to him on account of his
+        reputation of saintliness, and among others a boy who had been despaired of by the
+        physicians, and who was at the point of death, from a fish bone which had become fixed in
+        his throat. Blaise appeared twice before the governor, but neither cajolements nor threats
+        could induce him to sacrifice to the gods. He was first beaten with rods, and afterwards put
+        on the rack, where his flesh was mangled with iron combs. At last his head was cut off,
+        whereby he finished a noble testimony to the faith which is in Christ our Lord. He bore
+        witness on the 3rd day of February.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-catherine.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Catherine of Alexandria, Virgin and
+# Martyr (Nov 25) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/11-25*.txt at
+# all). web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/11-25.txt,
+# English/Sancti/11-25.txt. Lectio4-6 is this saint's own proper text,
+# one continuous vita account, no internal break, combined into a single
+# reading; Lectio7-9 (not present in this file, implicitly Common)
+# skipped. No responsory given.
+id: st-catherine
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Catharina, nobilis virgo Alexandrina, a prima ætate stúdia liberalium artium cum fidei
+        ardore conjungens, brevi ad eam sanctitátis et doctrinæ perfectiónem pervenit, ut, decem et
+        octo annos nata, eruditíssimum quemque superaret. Quæ cum Maximíni jussu multos, propter
+        christianæ religiónis professiónem varie tormentis cruciatos, ad supplícium rapi vidéret, non
+        dubitanter ipsum adiit Maximinum, eique nefariam immanitátem objíciens, sapientíssimis
+        ratiónibus Christi fidem ad salútem necessariam esse affirmavit.
+
+
+        Cujus prudéntiam Maximinus admiratus, retineri eam jubet, accersitis undique doctíssimis
+        homínibus, magnisque propositis præmiis, qui convictam Catharinam a Christi fide ad idolórum
+        cultum perduxissent. Quod contra áccidit. Nam plures philosophi, qui ad eam coarguéndam
+        convenerant, vi ac subtilitate ejus disputatiónis tanto Jesu Christi amóre sunt incénsi, ut
+        pro illo mori non dubitaverint. Quam ob rem Maximinus blanditiis ac promissis Catharinam de
+        senténtia dedúcere aggréditur; verum, id frustra fíeri intélligens, verbéribus affectam
+        plumbátisque contusam, dies undecim sine cibo ac potu inclusam tenet in carcere.
+
+
+        Quo témpore Maximíni uxor et Porphyrius belli dux, visendæ Vírginis causa carcerem ingressi,
+        et ejusdem prædicatióne in Jesum Christum credéntes, póstea martyrio coronáti sunt. Interim
+        Catharina edúcitur e custódia; et rota expedítur, crebris et acutis præfixa gládiis, ut
+        Vírginis corpus crudelíssime dilacerarétur. Quæ máchina, brevi Catharinæ oratióne, confracta
+        est; eoque miraculo multi Christi fidem suscepérunt. Ipse Maximinus, in impietáte et
+        crudelitate obstinatior, Catharinam secúri pércuti imperat. Quæ, fortiter dato cápite, ad
+        duplicátum virginitátis et martyrii præmium evolávit septimo Kalendas Decembris; cujus corpus
+        ab Angelis in Sina, Arábiæ monte, mirabíliter collocátum est.
+      en: >-
+        This Catharine was a noble maiden of Alexandria, who from her earliest years joined the
+        study of the liberal arts with fervent faith, and in a short while came to such an height of
+        holiness and learning, that when she was eighteen years of age she prevailed over the
+        chiefest wits. When she saw many diversely tormented and haled to death by command of
+        Maximin, because they professed the Christian religion, she went boldly unto him and rebuked
+        him for his savage cruelty, bringing forward likewise most sage reasons why the faith of
+        Christ should be needful for salvation.
+
+
+        Maximin marvelled at her wisdom, and bade keep her, while he gathered together the most
+        learned men from all quarters and offered them great rewards if they would confute Catharine
+        and bring her from believing in Christ to worship idols. But the event fell contrariwise, for
+        many of the philosophers who had come to dispute with her were overcome by the force and
+        skill of her reasoning, so that the love of Christ Jesus was kindled in them, and they were
+        content even to die for His sake. Then did Maximin strive to beguile Catharine with fair
+        words and promises, and when he found it was lost pains, he caused her to be beaten, and
+        bruised with lead-laden whips, and so cast into prison, and neither meat nor drink given to
+        her for the space of eleven days.
+
+
+        At that time Maximin's wife and Porphyry the Captain of his host, went to the prison to see
+        the damsel, and at her preaching believed in Jesus Christ, and were afterwards crowned with
+        martyrdom. Then was Catharine brought out of ward, and a wheel was set, wherein were fastened
+        many and sharp blades, so that her virgin body might thereby be most direfully cut and torn
+        in pieces, but in a little while, as Catharine prayed, this machine was broken in pieces, at
+        the which marvel many believed in Christ. But Maximin was hardened in his godlessness and
+        cruelty, and commanded to behead Catharine. She bravely offered her neck to the stroke and
+        passed away hence to receive the twain crowns of maidenhood and martyrdom, upon the 25th day
+        of November. Her body was marvelously laid by angels upon Mount Sinai in Arabia.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-donatus.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Donatus, Bishop and Martyr (Aug 7) —
+# pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/08-07.txt is a different, later
+# saint (St. Cajetan, canonized 1671) who displaced Donatus on the
+# general calendar's own Aug 7 slot; his content survives at the
+# suffixed sibling file (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical
+# wrinkle").
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-07o.txt, English/Sancti/08-07o.txt.
+# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source.
+id: st-donatus
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Donatus, paréntibus propter Jesu Christi fidem interfectis, Arrétium in Etrúriam cum
+        Hilarino monacho ex fuga se cóntulit: cujus étiam urbis epíscopus creátus est. Ubi, cum a
+        Quadratiáno præfecto in Juliáni persecutióne uterque idola venerari juberétur, negántibus
+        illis se tam nefárium scelus commissuros, Hilarinus in óculis Quadratiáni tamdiu fustibus
+        cæsus est, dum efflaret ánimam; Donatus, veheménter et ipse cruciatus, gládio percússus est.
+        Quorum córpora a Christiánis prope eam urbem honorifice sepúlta sunt.
+      en: >-
+        Donatus was the child of a father and mother who had both been slain for Jesus Christ's
+        sake. He fled with the monk Hilarinus to Arezzo in Tuscany, of which city he afterwards
+        became Bishop. There the Prefect Quadratian, during the persecution under Julian, commanded
+        both Hilarinus and Donatus to worship idols, and when they both refused to commit such
+        abominable iniquity, Hilarinus was beaten with clubs before the eyes of Quadratian, until he
+        gave up the ghost. Donatus also was savagely tortured, and slain with the sword. The
+        Christians buried their bodies honourably hard by the city.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-eleutherius.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Eleutherius, Pope and Martyr (May 26)
+# — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/05-26.txt is a different, later
+# saint (St. Philip Neri, canonized 1622) who displaced Eleutherius on
+# the general calendar's own May 26 slot; his content survives at the
+# suffixed sibling file (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical
+# wrinkle").
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-26o.txt, English/Sancti/05-26o.txt.
+# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source.
+# Note: the Latin and English texts here are noticeably not a literal
+# 1:1 translation of each other (the English is considerably more
+# detailed) — both are transcribed as-given from their respective source
+# files rather than reconciled, same as elsewhere in this project when
+# the two language tracks diverge.
+id: st-eleutherius
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Eleutherius, Nicopoli in Græcia natus, Aniceti Pontificis diaconus, Commodo imperatóre,
+        præfuit Ecclésiæ. Huic, inítio pontificatus, supplices litteræ venérunt a Lucio Britannórum
+        rege, ut se ac suos in Christianórum númerum reciperet. Quam ob rem Fugatium et Damianum,
+        doctos et pios viros, misit in Britanniam, per quos rex et réliqui fidem susciperent. Hoc
+        Pontifice, Irenæus Polycarpi discipulus, Romam veniens, ab eo benígne acceptus est. Quo
+        témpore summa pace et quiete fruebátur Ecclésia Dei; ac per totum orbem terrárum, maxime
+        Romæ, fides propagabátur. Vixit Eleutherius in pontificatu annos quindecim, dies viginti
+        tres. Fecit ordinatiónes tres mense Decembri, quibus creávit presbyteros duodecim, diaconos
+        octo, episcopos per diversa loca quindecim: sepultúsque est in Vaticano prope corpus sancti
+        Petri.
+      en: >-
+        Eleutherius was a Greek by race, and was born at Nicopolis, a city of Epirus. His father's
+        name was Abundius. He was a Priest of the holy Roman Church. During the reign of the Emperor
+        Marcus Aurelius Augustus, after the death of Soter, he was chosen Bishop of Rome by the
+        votes of all the clergy. He discharged the duties of this office excellently, and with all
+        praise, for fifteen years and twenty-three days. He held three ordinations in the month of
+        December, wherein he ordained twelve Priests, eight Deacons, and fifteen Bishops for diverse
+        places. He was consulted by the church of Lyons by letter concerning certain questions. The
+        bearer of these letters was that most learned Irenaeus. Him he hospitably welcomed, and to
+        him he opened the traditions of the Apostles which the Church of Rome had kept pure. He
+        condemned the superstitious dry-meat system of the Montanists. He laid down excellent rules
+        as to the right form of church sentences. When Marcion and Valentine had oftentimes relapsed
+        he cast them out of the Church. In his days the Church enjoyed the utmost peace, and he
+        brought many even of the chiefest of Rome to believe in Christ. He received letters by
+        messengers from Lleurwg, Prince of the Britons, praying him for ministers of the Word of
+        God, and he sent unto him Fagan and Dyfan, Priests of the Roman Church, through whose hands
+        the Prince himself, with his whole household and nearly all his subjects, were born again in
+        the sacred washing of regeneration. At length, when he had done all these things and others
+        for the worship of God, Eleutherius died a holy death in the reign of the Emperor Commodus,
+        and was buried upon the Vatican Mount.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-emerentiana.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Emerentiana, Virgin and Martyr (Jan 23)
+# — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/01-23.txt is a different, later
+# saint (St. Raymond of Peñafort) who displaced Emerentiana on the
+# general calendar's own Jan 23 slot; her own content survives at the
+# suffixed sibling file instead (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints's
+# "critical wrinkle").
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-23o.txt, English/Sancti/01-23o.txt.
+# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no
+# responsory given in the source.
+id: st-emerentiana
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Emerentiána virgo Romana, collactanea beátæ Agnetis, adhuc catechumena, fide et caritate
+        flagrans, furéntes in Christiános idolórum cultores cum vehementius accusaret, a concitáta
+        multitúdine lapidibus óbruta est. Quæ in cruciátibus orans ad sepúlcrum sanctæ Agnetis,
+        proprio sánguine, quem pro Christo constanter effudit, baptizata, ánimam Deo réddidit.
+      en: >-
+        Emerentiana was a Roman maiden, and the foster-sister of the blessed Agnes. While she was
+        still a Catechumen she was inspired by her faith and love to rebuke the fury of the
+        idol-worshippers against the Christians, whereupon a mob assembled, and stoned her so
+        severely that she was only able to drag herself to the grave of holy Agnes, where, while
+        she prayed, she gave up her soul to God, being baptized, not in water, but in her own
+        blood, so freely shed for Christ.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-evaristus.yml

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+# 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 }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-francis-of-paola.yml

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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 }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-giles.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Giles, Abbot (Sep 1) —
+# pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/09-01*.txt at all).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-01.txt, English/Sancti/09-01.txt. Single
+# lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source.
+id: st-giles
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Ægidius Atheniénsis, regiæ stirpis, a prima ætate divinis litteris et caritátis officiis ita
+        déditus fuit, ut nihil præterea curare viderétur. Itaque, paréntibus mórtuis, totum
+        patrimónium in páuperes erogávit; quin étiam túnicam exuit, ut ægrotum egentem tégeret, qua
+        ille indútus, statim conváluit. Sed multis deinceps clarior miraculis, timens sui nóminis
+        celebritátem, Arelátem ad beátum Cæsárium contendit. A quo post biennium discédens, secessit
+        in eremum; ubi diutius herbárum radicibus et cervæ lacte, quæ statis ad eum horis veniebat,
+        admirábili sanctitáte vixit. Quæ cerva, insequéntibus quodam die cánibus regiis, cum in
+        antrum Ægidii refugísset, Galliæ regem ímpulit, ut ab eo summis precibus péteret, ut in loco
+        speluncæ monastérium éxstrui paterétur. Cujus administratiónem, flagitante rege, invitus
+        suscépit; eoque munere aliquot annis prudenter piéque gesto, migrávit in cælum.
+      en: >-
+        The holy Abbot Giles was by birth an Athenian, and of Royal lineage. From his youth he
+        showed ever such a love for sacred learning and for works of charity, that he seemed to care
+        for nothing else. When his father and mother were dead, he bestowed his whole inheritance
+        upon the poor. He took off even his own coat, to clothe a poor sick man withal, and the sick
+        man was healed forthwith as soon as he put it on him. As Giles became famous for working
+        miracles, he fled from glory among men, and betook him to Arles, to the company of blessed
+        Caesarius. After the space of two years he departed thence, and went into the desert, for he
+        lived in wonderful holiness for a long while upon the roots of herbs and the milk of an
+        hind, which came to him at regular hours. This hind was chased one day by the King's hounds,
+        and took refuge in Giles's cave. Thereby the King of France was moved earnestly to entreat of
+        him that he would suffer a monastery to be built in the place where this cave was. At the
+        instant desire of the King, he took the rule of this monastery, albeit himself unwilling, and
+        discharged this duty wisely and godly for some years, until he passed away to heaven.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-gregory-thaumaturgus.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, Bishop and
+# Confessor (Nov 17) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/11-17*.txt at
+# all). web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/11-17.txt, English/Sancti/11-17.txt.
+#
+# Lectio4-5 (this saint's own vita) combined into one reading, no
+# internal break. Lectio6 (St. Maximus of Turin's sermon) is a
+# genuinely distinct source, kept separate.
+#
+# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel quotation (Mark 11:22-24) is nearly the
+# full short pericope, not just a bare incipit like elsewhere in this
+# pass, so authored as a genuine Gospel reading here. Lectio7's own
+# homily portion + Lectio8-9 (the Venerable Bede's commentary) is one
+# continuous excerpt, combined into a single reading. No responsory
+# given for either Nocturn 3 reading.
+id: st-gregory-thaumaturgus
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Gregórius, Neocæsaréæ Ponti epíscopus, sanctitáte doctrinaque illustris, signis vero ac
+        miraculis multo illustrior, quorum multitúdine atque præstántia Thaumatúrgus appellátus est,
+        et sancti Basilíi testimonio cum Moyse, Prophetis et Apóstolis comparátus; montem, qui
+        ecclésiæ ædificatiónem impediebat, oratióne álio tránstulit. Item palúdem, inter fratres
+        causam discordiárum, exsiccávit. Lycum fluvium, perniciose agros inundántem, defixo ad ripam
+        quo sustentabátur baculo, qui statim virentem crevit in árborem, coércuit, ut póstea ultra
+        eum terminum non efflúxerit.
+
+
+        Sæpíssime dæmones ex idolórum simulacris atque ex hóminum corpóribus ejécit, múltaque alia
+        mirabíliter effécit, quibus innumerábiles hómines traxit ad Jesu Christi fidem, cum étiam
+        prophetico spíritu futura prædiceret. Qui, migratúrus e vita, cum quæsísset quot in civitáte
+        Neocæsariénsi réliqui essent infidéles, responsumque esset tantum esse septemdecim; Deo
+        grátias agens, Tótidem, inquit, erant fidéles, cum cœpi episcopátum. Plura scripsit, quibus
+        etiam, non solum miraculis, Dei Ecclésiam illustrávit.
+      en: >-
+        Gregory, Archbishop of Neo-Caesarea, in Pontus, is famous indeed for his holiness and
+        doctrine, but much more so on account of the signs and wonders which he wrought, the number
+        and character of which were so extraordinary that they have gotten him the name of
+        Thaumatourgos, which is, being interpreted from the Greek, the Wonderworker. Holy Basil
+        compareth him with Moses, with the Prophets, and with the Apostles, and testifieth that by
+        his prayers he moved a mountain that stood in the way of the building of a Church. Moreover,
+        he dried up a marsh, which was a cause of strife between brothers. Also, when the River Lycus
+        overflowed and wasted the fields, he set his walking-stick on the bank, which stick
+        forthwith grew into a green tree, and confined the stream within its bed, so that it never
+        more passed that place again.
+
+
+        He oftentimes cast out devils either from heathen idols or from the bodies of men, and did
+        many other marvelous things, whereby he drew countless numbers to believe in Jesus Christ.
+        Also he had the spirit of prophecy, and foretold things to come. When he was at the point of
+        death, he asked how many unbelievers were left in the city of Neo-Caesarea? and when they
+        answered Seventeen, he gave God thanks, and said: Just so many were the faithful when I took
+        the Bishopric. He wrote a great deal, whereby, as well as by his wonders, he hath enlightened
+        the Church of God.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Maximus, Bishop of Turin, Homily 59 (the 2nd on St. Eusebius of Vercelli)"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Beáti Patris Gregórii merita jam in tuto posita secúri magnificémus; qui, gubernaculum fidei
+        viríliter tenens, ánchoram spei tranquilla jam in statióne compósuit, et plenam cæléstibus
+        divítiis et ætérnis mercibus navem optato in littore collocávit. Qui, contra omnes
+        adversarios, scutum timoris Dei tamdiu, donec ad victoriam perveníret. Quid enim fuit totus
+        vitæ illíus cursus, nisi uníus cum vígili hoste conflictus?
+      en: >-
+        Our blessed Father Gregory is safe now, and we may safely praise his great deeds. He that
+        kept such a manful hand upon the tiller of faith, hath now cast the anchor of hope in
+        moorings of great calm, and brought his ship, heavy laden with heavenly riches and
+        everlasting merchandise, safe into the heaven where he would be. Thus fareth it now with him
+        who never fainted, but for so long time held up ever the shield of the fear of God against
+        all that did beset him. What was his whole life but one long fight against an enemy that
+        never slept?
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 3
+    isGospel: true
+    citation: { la: "Marc 11:22-24", en: "Mark 11:22-24" }
+    text:
+      la: "Respóndens Jesus discípulis suis ait illis: Habéte fidem Dei. Amen dico vobis quia quicúmque díxerit huic monti: Tóllere et míttere in mare, et non hæsitáverit in corde suo, sed credíderit quia quodcúmque díxerit fiat, fiet ei."
+      en: "And Jesus answering, saith to them: Have the faith of God. Amen I say to you, that whosoever shall say to this mountain, Be thou removed and be cast into the sea, and shall not stagger in his heart, but believe, that whatsoever he saith shall be done; it shall be done unto him."
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 3
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "The Venerable Bede, Priest, Commentary on Mark, Book 3"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Solent Gentiles qui contra Ecclésiam maledicta scripsére, improperare nostris quod non
+        habúerint plenam fidem Dei, quia numquam montes transferre potúerint. Quibus respondéndum
+        est non scripta esse, quæ in Ecclésia sunt gesta, sicut étiam de factis ipsíus Christi et
+        Dómini nostri Scriptúra testátur. Unde et hoc quoque fíeri potuísset, ut mons ablátus de
+        terra mitterétur in mare, si necessitas id fíeri poposcísset. Quómodo légimus factum précibus
+        beáti Patris Gregórii, Neocæsaréæ Ponti antístitis, viri meritis et virtútibus exímii, ut
+        mons in terra tantum loco cederet quantum íncolæ civitátis opus habebant.
+
+
+        Cum enim, volens ædificáre ecclésiam in loco apto, vidéret eum angustiórem esse quam res
+        exigébat, eo quod ex una parte, rupe maris, ex alia, monte próximo coarctarétur; venit nocte
+        ad locum, et, genibus flexis, admonuit Dóminum promissiónis suæ, ut montem longius juxta
+        fidem petentis ágeret. Et, mane facto, reversus invénit montem tantum spatii reliquisse
+        structóribus ecclésiæ quantum opus habuerant. Poterat ergo hic, poterat alius quis ejusdem
+        meriti vir, si opportunitas exegísset, impetrare a Dómino, mérito fidei, ut étiam mons
+        tollerétur et mitterétur in mare.
+
+
+        Verum, quia montis nómine nonnumquam diabolus significátur, videlicet propter supérbiam, qua
+        se contra Deum erigit, et esse vult símilis Altíssimo; mons ad præcéptum eórum qui fortes
+        fide sunt, tollitur de terra et in mare projícitur, cum, prædicántibus verbum doctóribus
+        sanctis, immundus spíritus ab eórum corde repéllitur qui ad vitam sunt præordináti, et in
+        turbulentis amarisque infidelium méntibus vesaniam suæ tyrannidis exercére permittitur.
+      en: >-
+        The heathen, who have written blasphemies against the Church, are used to cast in our teeth
+        that we have not full faith in God, since we have never been able to move mountains. Such
+        should be answered that we do not possess records of everything that hath come to pass in
+        the Church, any more than, the Scripture being witness, we possess records of all the doings
+        of our Lord Christ Himself. Mountains may have been removed and cast into the sea, in case of
+        need; a like case, indeed, as we read, was that which came to pass at the prayers of the
+        Blessed Father Gregory, Archbishop of Neo-Caesarea, in Pontus, that right worthy and mighty
+        man, when a mountain was moved from one place on land to another place on land, as the
+        dwellers in the city had need.
+
+
+        Gregory was wishful to build a Church in a meet place, but the site was too narrow, being
+        wedged in between a mountain on the one side and a precipice going down into the sea on the
+        other. He came therefore by night to the place, kneeling down, and reminding the Lord of His
+        promise, and calling upon Him to remove the mountain. And in the morning, when he came
+        thither again, he found that the mountain had been removed back, and as much room left for
+        the builders of the Church as they needed. This man therefore would have been able, and any
+        other man of like grace would have been able, if need were, to obtain of the Lord, by the
+        force of his faith, that even a mountain should be removed, and be cast into the sea.
+
+
+        Mystically, however, by a mountain is sometimes signified the devil, on account of the pride
+        whereby he lifteth himself up against God, and would fain be like unto the Most High. And
+        when holy teachers, strong in faith, do preach the Word, this mountain is removed, and cast
+        into the sea, that is to say, the unclean spirit is removed out of the hearts of such as are
+        foreordained unto eternal life, and sent free to exercise the wild rage of his tyranny in
+        the riotous and embittered minds of the unfaithful.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-januarius.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Januarius, Bishop, and Companions,
+# Martyrs (Sep 19) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/09-19*.txt at
+# all). web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-19.txt,
+# English/Sancti/09-19.txt.
+#
+# Lectio4-6 is this saint's own proper vita, one continuous account, no
+# internal break, combined into a single reading.
+#
+# Nocturn 3's Lectio7 gives only the Gospel incipit ("Et réliqua", Matt
+# 24:3-13) with no full pericope text, so the bare Gospel reading isn't
+# authored here (deferred, pending the bulk Vulgate/Douay-Rheims
+# import). Lectio7's own homily portion + Lectio8-9 is one continuous
+# excerpt from St. Hilary's commentary, combined into a single reading.
+# No responsory given for either reading in the source.
+id: st-januarius
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Januarius, Benevénti epíscopus, Diocletiáno et Maximiáno in Christiános sæviéntibus, ad
+        Timotheum Campaniæ præsidem ob christianæ fidei professiónem Nolam perducitur. Ibi, ejus
+        constántia varie tentata, in ardentem fornacem conjéctus, ita illæsus evasit, ut ne
+        vestiméntum aut capillum quidem flamma violáverit. Hinc præses, accénsus iracúndia, Mártyris
+        corpus imperat usque eo dístrahi, quoad nervórum compages artuumque solvántur. Festus interea
+        ejus diaconus et Desiderius lector, comprehénsi vinctique, una cum episcopo ante rhedam
+        præsidis Puteleos pertrahúntur, et in eumdem carcerem, in quo Sosius Misenas et Próculus
+        Puteolánus diáconus, Eutyches et Acutius láici, ad bestias damnati, detinebántur, simul
+        conjiciúntur.
+
+
+        Postero die omnes in amphitheatro feris objecti sunt; quæ, naturalis oblitæ feritátis, ad
+        Januarii pedes se prostravére. Id Timótheus mágicis cantiónibus tribuens, cum senténtiam
+        cápitis in Christi Mártyres pronuntiásset, óculis repénte captus, orante mox beato Januario,
+        lumen recepit; quo miraculo hóminum míllia fere quinque Christi fidem suscepérunt. Verum
+        ingrátus judex, níhilo placatior factus beneficio, sed conversióne tantæ multitúdinis actus
+        in rábiem; véritus maxime príncipum decreta, sanctum Episcopum cum sociis gládio pércuti
+        jussit.
+
+
+        Horum córpora finítimæ urbes, pro suo quæque studio certum sibi patronum ex iis apud Deum
+        adoptándi, sepelienda curarunt. Januarii corpus Neapolitani divino admónitu extulére; quod,
+        primo Benevéntum, inde ad monastérium montis Vírginis, postremo Neapolim translátum et in
+        majori ecclésia cónditum, multis miraculis cláruit. Sed illud in primis memorándum, quod
+        erumpéntes olim e monte Vesuvio flammárum globos, nec vicínis modo sed longinquis étiam
+        regiónibus vastitátis metum afferéntes, exstinxit. Præclárum illud quoque, quod ejus sanguis,
+        qui in ampulla vitrea concretus asservátur, cum in conspéctu cápitis ejusdem Mártyris
+        pónitur, admirándum in modum colliquefíeri et ebullire, perinde atque recens effúsus, ad hæc
+        usque témpora cernitur.
+      en: >-
+        At that time the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian were furiously raging against Christians,
+        Januarius, Bishop of Benevento, was taken to Nola, to Timothy, President of Campania, on the
+        charge of professing the Christian faith. There his firmness was tried diverse ways, and he
+        was cast into a burning fiery furnace, but came forth thence unhurt, for neither upon his
+        raiment nor upon the hairs of his head did the flame take any hold. Thereupon the wrath of
+        the President was enkindled, and he commanded the martyr to be torn limb from limb. But in
+        the meanwhile Januarius' Deacon Festus and his Reader Desiderius were taken, and the whole
+        three were led in bonds to Puzzuoli in front of the President's carriage, and there thrown
+        into the same prison wherein were already held four other Christians condemned to be
+        devoured by wild beasts, that is to say, Sosius, a Deacon of Miseno, Proculus, a Deacon of
+        Puzzuoli, and two laymen, named respectively Eutyches and Acutius.
+
+
+        The next day all seven were exposed to the wild beasts in the amphitheatre, but these
+        creatures forgot their natural fierceness, and lay down at the feet of Januarius. Timothy
+        would have it that this came from charms, and commanded the witnesses of Christ to be
+        beheaded. Thereupon he became of a sudden blind, until Januarius had prayed for him, by the
+        which miracle nearly five thousand persons were turned to Christ. But this good turn roused
+        up no gratitude in the President, yea, rather, the conversion of so many drave him wild, and
+        in his hot fear to obey the decrees of the Emperors he commanded that the holy Bishop and his
+        companions should be smitten with the sword.
+
+
+        The cities of those coasts strove to obtain their bodies for honourable burial, so as to
+        make sure of having in them advocates with God. By God's will the relics of Januarius were
+        taken to Naples at last, after having been carried from Puzzuoli to Benevento, and from
+        Benevento to Monte Vergine; when they were brought thence to Naples, they were laid in the
+        chief Church there, and there have been famous on account of many miracles. Among these is
+        remarkable the stopping of eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, whereby both that neighbourhood and
+        also places afar off have been like to have been brought to desolation. It is also well
+        known, and is the plain fact, seen even unto this day, that when the blood of Januarius, kept
+        dried up in a small glass phial, is put in sight of the head of the same martyr, it is used
+        to melt and bubble in a very strange way, as though it had but freshly been shed.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 3
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Commentary on Matthew, ch. 25"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Discipuli Dóminum intérrogant quando hæc fíerent, quodve signum et adventus sui et
+        consummatiónis sæculi nóscerent. Et, quia tria hæc in unum quæsíta sunt, distinctis et
+        témporis et intelligéntiæ significatiónibus separántur. Respondétur ígitur primum de
+        civitátis occasu, et confirmántur veritáte doctrinæ, ne quis fallax ignorántibus posset
+        obrépere; venturi enim erant étiam eórum témpore, qui se Christum essent nuncupatúri. Ut
+        ígitur fides pestífero mendácio détrahi posset, admonítio præcessit.
+
+
+        Confírmat ígitur eos ad tolerántiam passiónum, fugæ, verberatiónis, intéritus et publici in
+        eos odii propter nomen ejus. Atque his quidem vexatiónibus multi turbabúntur, et, tantis
+        insurgéntibus malis scandalizabúntur, et usque in mutuum ódium excitabúntur. Et falsi
+        prophetæ erunt, multosque ementíta veritáte pervertent; et, abundante nequitia, caritas
+        refrigéscet.
+
+
+        Sed usque in finem perseverántibus salus reserváta est; ac tum, per omnes orbis partes viris
+        apostolicis dispersis, Evangélii véritas prædicábitur. Et, cum univérsis fúerit cognítio
+        sacraménti cæléstis invecta, tum Jerúsalem occasus et finis incumbet; ut prædicatiónis fidem,
+        et infidelium pœna et metus civitátis érutæ consequátur. Hæc ígitur in eam, ut fuerant
+        prædicta, perfécta sunt; et, lapidatis, fugatis, peremptis Apóstolis, fame, bello,
+        captivitáte consumpta est. Ac tum fuit digna non esse, cum, ejectis prædicatóribus Christi,
+        indignam Dei prædicatióne se præbuit.
+      en: >-
+        His disciples came unto Him privately, saying: "Tell us, when shall these things be, and
+        what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the world?" Here are in one question
+        three several points, and the answers are to be understood of three several times, and by
+        three several interpretations. "When shall these things be?" And herein He taught them
+        concerning the fall of the city, whereof He made plain announcement, lest the unlearned
+        might fall a prey to any deceiver. For within the lifetime of His then hearers were to come
+        many, saying: I am Christ. He giveth warning therefore beforehand, lest such pestilential
+        liars should gain any belief.
+
+
+        He confirms them, therefore, to endure sufferings, flight, scourging, death, and the public
+        hatred of all men for His Name's sake. And by these very troubles many shall be troubled, and
+        as such great evils arise they shall be offended, and shall even be stirred up to hatred of
+        one another. And false prophets shall arise, and shall deceive many by their pretended truth;
+        and because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
+
+
+        But unto them that endure unto the end salvation is reserved; and then, the apostolic men
+        having been scattered through every part of the world, the truth of the Gospel shall be
+        preached. And when the knowledge of the heavenly mystery has been carried to all, then the
+        fall and end of Jerusalem shall come to pass; so that the faith of the preaching, and the
+        punishment and terror of the unbelievers, may follow from the destroyed city. These things
+        therefore were fulfilled in her, just as they had been foretold; and, the Apostles having
+        been stoned, put to flight, and slain, she was consumed by famine, war, and captivity. And
+        she then proved unworthy to continue, when, having cast out the preachers of Christ, she
+        showed herself unworthy of God's preaching.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-louis.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Louis, King of France, Confessor
+# (Aug 25) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/08-25*.txt at all).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-25.txt, English/Sancti/08-25.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.
+id: st-louis
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Ludovicus nonus Galliæ rex, duodecim annos natus, patre amisso, et in Blanchæ matris
+        sanctissima disciplina educatus, cum jam vigesimum annum in regno ageret, in morbum incidit:
+        quo tempore cogitavit de recuperanda possessione Jerosolymorum. Quamobrem ubi convaluisset,
+        vexillum ab episcopo Parisiensi accepit: deínde mare cum ingenti exercitu trajiciens, primo
+        prælio Saracenos fugavit. Sed cum ex pestilentia magna militum multitudo periisset, victus
+        ipse captusque est.
+
+
+        Rebus postea cum Saracenis compositis, liber rex exercitusque dimittitur. Quinque annis in
+        Oriente commoratus, plurimos Christianos a barbarorum servitute redemit, multos étiam
+        infideles ad Christi fidem convertit: præterea aliquot Christianorum urbes refecit suis
+        sumptibus. Interim mater ejus migrat e vita: quare domum redire cogitur, ubi totum se dedit
+        pietatis officiis.
+
+
+        Multa ædificavit monasteria, et pauperum hospitia: beneficentia egentes sublevabat: frequens
+        visebat ægrotos, quibus ipse non solum suis sumptibus omnia suppeditabat, sed etiam, quæ opus
+        erant, manibus ministrabat. Vestitu vulgari utebatur, cilicio ac jejunio corpus assidue
+        affligebat. Sed cum iterum transmisisset, bellum Saracenis illaturus, jamque castra in eorum
+        conspectu posuisset, pestilentia decessit in illa oratione: Introibo in domum tuam; adorabo
+        ad templum sanctum tuum, et confitebor nomini tuo. Ejus corpus postea Lutétiam Parisiorum
+        translatum est, quod in celebri sancti Dionysii templo asservatur et colitur; caput vero in
+        sacra æde sanctæ Capellæ. Ipse clarus miraculis a Bonifacio Papa octavo in sanctorum numerum
+        est relatus.
+      en: >-
+        Louis IX, King of France, at the age of twelve years lost his father. He was brought up
+        under the godly care of his mother, Blanche of Castile. In the twentieth year of his reign
+        he fell grievously sick, and the thought then occurred to him of delivering Jerusalem out of
+        the hands of the Moslems. On his health being restored, he received a banner from the Bishop
+        of Paris, and crossed the sea with a very great army. In his first battle he put the
+        Saracens to flight, but, a great number of the soldiers perishing by disease, he was himself
+        conquered and taken prisoner.
+
+
+        The King afterwards entered into treaty with the Saracens, and he and his army departed in
+        peace. He remained five years in the East, during which he redeemed great numbers of
+        Christians from slavery among the unbelievers, and also brought many of the unbelievers
+        themselves to believe in Christ. Moreover he rebuilt several cities of the Christians at his
+        own cost. Meanwhile, his mother departed this life, whereby he was constrained to return
+        home, where he gave himself up entirely to works of godliness.
+
+
+        He built many monasteries, and charitable institutions for the poor. By his alms he relieved
+        the needy, and often visited the sick, for whom he not only provided at his own cost, but
+        waited on them with his own hands with such things as they wanted. He wore a plain dress and
+        constantly chastised his body with hair-cloth and fasting. He crossed the sea to make war
+        again upon the Saracens. His camp was pitched in sight of the enemy, but he was seized with
+        pestilence, and died uttering the words: I will come into thy house; I will worship toward
+        thy holy temple, and praise thy Name. His body was afterwards carried to Paris, and it is
+        kept and honoured in the famous Abbey Church of St. Denis, but his head in the oratory called
+        La Sainte Chapelle. He was renowned for miracles, and Pope Boniface VIII enrolled his name
+        among those of the Saints.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-marcellus-i.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Marcellus I, Pope and Martyr (Jan 16) —
+# the first of the "pre-1955-but-post-1617" saints (source confirmed
+# Tridentine, not Monastic 1617: web/www/horas/Latin/SanctiM has no
+# 01-16*.txt at all; see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-16.txt, English/Sancti/01-16.txt.
+# Lectio1-3 and 7-9 are Common-of-a-Martyr-Pope ("vide C2b" in [Rule]),
+# not proper to this saint, so not authored here per this project's
+# existing "no Common fallback authored into this store" pattern. Only
+# Lectio4-6 are this saint's own proper text — one continuous vita
+# account, no internal source break, so combined into a single reading
+# per the project's recombine-don't-reproduce-the-lesson-split rule.
+# Responsory: the plain (non-"rubrica tridentina", which is just an alias
+# to Commune/C2a) Responsory8 text.
+id: st-marcellus-i
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Marcellus Romanus, a Constantio et Galerio usque ad Maxéntium pontificátum gessit. Cujus
+        hortatu Lucina matrona Romana, bonórum suórum Dei Ecclésiam fecit heredem. Aucto in Urbe
+        fidelium numero, ad eórum utilitátem, ad baptismum pœnitentiámque dandam eis, qui christianam
+        religiónem suscíperent, et ad Mártyrum sepultúram, novos Titulos instituit, et quasi álteras
+        diœcéses distríbuit. Quibus rebus ira incénsus Maxentius, Marcello gravia supplícia minátur,
+        nisi, depósito pontificatu, idolis immoláret.
+
+
+        Qui cum insanas hóminis voces neglígeret, misit eum in catábulum, ut bestiárum, quæ publice
+        alebántur, curam sustinéret: ubi Marcéllus assiduis jejuniis et precibus novem menses vitam
+        duxit, parochias, quas præsens non póterat, visitans per epistolas. Inde ereptus a clericis,
+        hospítio recípitur a beáta Lucina, in cujus ædibus ecclésiam dedicávit, quæ hódie titulo
+        sancti Marcelli nominátur: in qua et Christiáni orábant, et ipse beátus Marcellus
+        prædicabat.
+
+
+        Quibus cógnitis, Maxéntius in eam ecclésiam catábuli bestias transférri, et a Marcello
+        custodiri jubet: ubi loci fœditate, multisque ærumnis afflíctus obdormívit in Dómino. Cujus
+        corpus in cœmeterio Priscillæ via Salaria a beáta Lucina sepúltum est décimo septimo Kalendas
+        Februarii. Sedit annos quinque, mensem unum, dies viginti quinque. Scripsit epistolam ad
+        episcopos Antiochenæ provinciæ de primatu Romanæ Ecclésiæ, quam caput ecclesiárum
+        appellandam demonstrat; ubi étiam illud scriptum est, nullum concílium jure celebrari, nisi
+        ex auctoritáte Romani Pontificis. Ordinávit mense Decembri Romæ presbyteros viginti quinque,
+        diaconos duos, episcopos per diversa loca viginti unum.
+      en: >-
+        This Marcellus was a Roman, and held the supreme Pontificate from (the year of our Lord 304,
+        in) the reign of Constantius and Galerius, till (310, in) that of Maxentius. It was through
+        his persuasion that the Roman lady Lucina left the whole of her property to the Church of
+        God. As the believers increased, he instituted new titles in the City, which he divided
+        after the manner of dioceses for their convenience, and for the baptism and penance of
+        heathens converted to Christianity, and for the burial of the martyrs. These proceedings
+        excited the wrath of Maxentius, who threatened Marcellus with the heaviest punishment,
+        unless he would lay down the Popedom and sacrifice to idols.
+
+
+        The servant of God treated with contempt the mad cries of this man, who accordingly took him
+        and sent him to a menagerie, to take care of the beasts which were fed at the public cost.
+        Marcellus remained at this place for nine months, which he spent in continual fasting and
+        prayer, and, as he could not visit the parishes in person, he wrote letters to them. Some
+        clerks rescued him, and the blessed Lucina hospitably received him into her house, in which
+        he dedicated a Church, which is now called St. Marcellus'. Here the Christians met to pray,
+        and the blessed Marcellus himself preached.
+
+
+        These proceedings came to the knowledge of Maxentius, who thereupon had the wild beasts
+        brought from the menagerie and located in the church, where Marcellus was made to feed them.
+        The noisomeness of the place and the filthiness of his occupation broke down a constitution
+        already enfeebled by many ailments, and he fell asleep in the Lord. The blessed Lucina
+        buried his body in the cemetery of Priscilla, on the Salarian Way, on the 16th of January.
+        He sat on the throne of Peter for five years, one month, and twenty-five days. He wrote an
+        epistle to the Bishops of the Patriarchate of Antioch on the primacy of the Roman Church,
+        wherein he proveth the right of the same Church to be called the head of all the Churches.
+        In this letter he likewise saith that no Council can be lawfully gathered together except by
+        the authority of the Roman Pontiff. He ordained at Rome in the month of December
+        twenty-five Priests, two Deacons, and twenty-one Bishops for diverse Sees.
+    responsory:
+      la: "Dómine, prævenísti eum in benedictiónibus dulcédinis: * Posuísti in cápite ejus corónam de lápide pretióso.\nV. Vitam pétiit a te, et tribuísti ei longitúdinem diérum in sæculum sæculi.\nR. Posuísti in cápite ejus corónam de lápide pretióso."
+      en: "O Lord, thou hast prevented him with blessings of sweetness: * Thou hast set on his head a crown of precious stones.\nV. He asked life of thee, and thou hast given him length of days for ever and ever.\nR. Thou hast set on his head a crown of precious stones."
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-monica.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Monica, Widow (May 4) —
+# pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/05-04*.txt at all).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-04.txt, English/Sancti/05-04.txt.
+#
+# Lectio4-5 (Monica's own vita and death) combined into one reading, no
+# internal source break. Lectio6 (St. Augustine's own account of her
+# death, Confessions Bk. 9, ch. 12) is a genuinely distinct source, kept
+# separate.
+#
+# Nocturn 3's Gospel+homily is the same pairing already authored for
+# post-pentecost-15.yml (Luke 7:11-16, the raising of the widow's son at
+# Naim, + St. Augustine's Sermon 44 on it) — this saint's own file gives
+# only the Gospel incipit ("Et réliqua"), so the full pericope text is
+# reused verbatim from that already-live-verified transcription rather
+# than re-sourced here (same citation, not fabricated). The homily
+# excerpt (Lectio7-9) is transcribed fresh from this saint's own file,
+# since its wording differs slightly from post-pentecost-15's own
+# (different old translation of the same sermon). Responsories reused
+# from post-pentecost-15.yml for the same reason — this file gives none
+# of its own.
+id: st-monica
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Monica, sancti Augustíni dupliciter mater, quia eum et mundo et cælo péperit, maríto mortuo,
+        quem senectute confectum Jesu Christo conciliávit, castam et opéribus misericórdiæ
+        exercitam viduitátem agebat; in assiduis vero ad Deum oratiónibus pro fílio, qui in
+        Manichæórum sectam inciderat, lácrimas effundébat. Quem étiam Mediolanum secuta est; ubi
+        ipsum frequenter hortabátur, ut ad episcopum Ambrosium se conferret. Quod cum ille fecísset,
+        ejus et publicis conciónibus et privátis colloquiis catholicæ fidei veritátem edoctus, ab
+        eodem baptizátus est.
+
+
+        Mox in Africam redeuntes, cum ad Ostia Tiberina constitissent, incidit in febrem. Quo in
+        morbo cum eam quodam die ánima defecísset, ut se collegit, Ubi, inquit, eram? Et astántes
+        íntuens, Ponite hic matrem vestram: tantum vos rogo, ut ad altáre Dómini meminéritis mei.
+        Nono autem die beáta mulier ánimam Deo réddidit. Ejus corpus ibi in ecclésia sanctæ Aureæ
+        sepúltum est: quod póstea, Martino quinto summo Pontifice, Romam translátum, in ecclésia
+        sancti Augustíni honorifice cónditum est.
+      en: >-
+        Monica was twice over the mother of St. Augustine, for, under God, he owed to her both
+        earth and heaven. When her husband was very old she made him a friend of Jesus Christ, and
+        after his death she lived a widow in all purity and constantly occupied in works of mercy.
+        Her son Augustine had fallen into the heresy of the Manichaeans, and for his conversion she
+        earnestly pleaded with God for years, with strong crying and tears. She followed Augustine
+        to Milan, and tenderly and constantly besought him to confer with Ambrose the Bishop. This
+        he consented to do, and at last, through the public sermons and private conversations of
+        Ambrose, his eyes were opened to see the truth of the Catholic Religion, and he received
+        baptism at the Bishop's hands.
+
+
+        The mother and son set out to return to their home in Africa, but after they had reached
+        Ostia at the mouth of the Tiber, she was stricken down by a fever. One day as she lay sick,
+        she came to herself after her mind had been long wandering, and said: "Where am I?" Then she
+        saw who were standing by, and said: "Let your mother lie here only; remember me at the altar
+        of the Lord." On the ninth day this blessed lady surrendered her spirit to God. Her body was
+        buried there at Ostia in the Church of St. Aurea, but, long after, in the papacy of Martin
+        V, it was carried to Rome and honourably buried again in the Church of St. Augustine.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Confessions, Book 9, ch. 12"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Neque enim decére arbitrabámur funus illud quéstubus lacrimosis gemitibúsque celebrare, quia
+        illa nec mísere, nec omnino moriebátur: hoc et documéntis morum ejus, et fide non ficta
+        rationibúsque certis tenebamus. Atque inde paulatim reducébam in prístinum sensum ancíllam
+        tuam, conversationémque ejus piam in te et sanctam, in nos blandam atque morígeram, qua
+        súbito destitútus sum; et libuit flere de illa et pro illa. Et si quis peccátum invenerit,
+        flevisse me matrem meam exígua parte horæ, matrem óculis meis mortuam, quæ me multos annos
+        fleverat, ut óculis suis viverem, non irrideat; sed potius, si est grandi caritate, pro
+        peccátis meis fleat ipse ad te Patrem ómnium fratrum Christi tui.
+      en: >-
+        We did not think that hers was a death which it was seemly to mark with repining, or tears,
+        or lamentations, seeing that she died not sorrowfully, nor at all as touching her best and
+        noblest part. This we knew, because we knew what her life had been, her faith unfeigned, her
+        sure and certain hope. And then, nevertheless, I remembered again what thine handmaid was
+        used to be, her walk with thee, how godly and holy it was, and with us so gentle and
+        long-suffering; and that it was all gone away from me now. And I wept, over her and for her.
+        And if any man will make it blame to me that I wept for a little while, when I saw lying
+        dead before mine eyes my mother, who had wept over me so many years, that she might see me
+        live, I say, if any man will make it blame to me, I pray him not to sneer at me, but rather
+        (if his charity be so great) himself to weep over my sins before thee, who art a Father to
+        all them to whom thy Christ is a Brother.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 3
+    isGospel: true
+    citation: { la: "Luc 7:11-16", en: "Luke 7:11-16" }
+    text:
+      la: "In illo témpore: Ibat Jesus in civitátem, quæ vocátur Naim: et ibant cum eo discípuli ejus: et turba copiósa. Cum autem appropinquáret portæ civitátis, ecce, defúnctus efferebátur fílius únicus matris suæ: et hæc vídua erat, et turba civitátis multa cum illa. Quam cum vidísset Dóminus, misericórdia motus super eam, dixit illi: Noli flere. Et accéssit et tétigit lóculum. Hi autem, qui portábant, stetérunt. Et ait: Adoléscens, tibi dico, surge. Et resédit, qui erat mórtuus, et cœpit loqui. Et dedit illum matri suæ. Accépit autem omnes timor: et magnificábant Deum, dicéntes: Quia Prophéta magnus surréxit in nobis: et quia Deus visitávit plebem suam."
+      en: "At that time, Jesus went to a town called Naim; and His disciples and a large crowd went with Him. And as He drew near the gate of the town, behold, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a large gathering from the town was with her. And the Lord, seeing her, had compassion on her, and said to her, Do not weep. And He went up and touched the stretcher; and the bearers stood still. And He said, Young man, I say to you, arise. And he who was dead, sat up, and began to speak. And He gave him to his mother. But fear seized upon all, and they began to glorify God, saying, A great prophet has risen among us, and God has visited His people."
+    responsory:
+      la: "Quis mihi tríbuat, ut in inférno prótegas me et abscóndas me, donec pertránseat furor tuus, Dómine, nisi tu, qui solus es Deus? * Et constítuas mihi tempus, in quo recordéris mei?\nV. Numquid sicut dies hóminis dies tui, ut quæras iniquitátem meam; cum sit nemo, qui de manu tua possit erúere.\nR. Et constítuas mihi tempus, in quo recordéris mei?"
+      en: "O that Thou wouldest hide me in the grave; that Thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, even thine, O Lord, Thou That alone art God; * That Thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!\nV. Are thy days as the days of man, that Thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.\nR. That Thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!"
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 3
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Sermon 44 on the Words of the Lord"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        De juvene illo resuscitato gavisa est mater vidua; de homínibus in spíritu quotídie
+        suscitátis gaudet mater Ecclésia. Ille quidem mórtuus erat corpore; illi autem mente. Illius
+        mors visibilis visibíliter plangebátur; illórum mors invisibilis nec quærebátur, nec
+        videbátur. Quæsívit ille, qui nóverat mórtuos. Ille solus nóverat mórtuos, qui poterat fácere
+        vivos. Nisi enim ad mórtuos suscitándos venísset, Apóstolus non diceret: Surge, qui dormis,
+        et exsúrge a mórtuis, et illuminábit te Christus.
+
+
+        Tres autem mórtuos invenímus a Dómino resuscitatos visibíliter, míllia invisibíliter. Quot
+        autem mórtuos visibíliter suscitaverit, quis novit? Non enim ómnia, quæ fecit, scripta sunt.
+        Joánnes hoc dixit: Multa alia fecit Jesus, quæ si scripta essent, árbitror totum mundum non
+        posse libros cápere. Multi ergo sunt alii sine dubio suscitati, sed non tres frustra
+        commemorati. Dóminus enim noster Jesus Christus ea, quæ faciebat corporáliter, étiam
+        spiritáliter volebat intelligi. Neque enim tantum miracula propter miracula faciebat; sed ut
+        illa, quæ faciebat, mira essent vidéntibus, vera essent intelligéntibus.
+
+
+        Quemádmodum qui videt litteras in códice óptime scripto, et non novit légere, laudat quidem
+        antiquarii manum, admirans ápicum pulchritúdinem; sed quid sibi velint, quid índicent illi
+        ápices, nescit, et est óculis laudator, mente non cógnitor. Alius autem et laudat artifícium,
+        et capit intelléctum: ille útique, qui non solum vidére quod commune est ómnibus potest, sed
+        étiam légere; quod qui non dídicit, non potest. Ita qui vidérunt Christi miracula, et non
+        intellexérunt quid sibi vellent, et quid intelligéntibus quodámmodo innúerent, miráti sunt
+        tantum quia facta sunt; alii vero et facta mirati, et intellecta assecuti. Tales nos in
+        schola Christi esse debemus.
+      en: >-
+        That her son was called again to life was the joy of that widowed mother; that souls of men
+        are every day called to life is the joy of our Mother the Church. He was dead in body; they
+        have been dead in mind. His death was outward, and was outwardly bewailed; their inward
+        death hath been neither mourned for nor seen. But He hath sought for them, Who hath seen
+        that they are dead, and He only hath seen that they are dead, Who hath been able to make
+        them alive. If He had not come to raise the dead, the Apostle had not said: "Awake, thou
+        that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."
+
+
+        It is written how the Lord raised from the dead three persons visibly, but thousands
+        invisibly. But how many they may have been whom He raised visibly, who knoweth? For all the
+        things which He did are not written. John saith thus: "There are also many other things
+        which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the
+        world itself could not contain the books that should be written." There were then, doubtless,
+        many more raised to life, but it is not meaningless that three are recorded. For our Lord
+        Jesus Christ hath willed that those things which He did carnally, we should understand also
+        spiritually. He worked not miracles only for the sake of working wonders, but that His works
+        might be at once wonderful to them that beheld, and true to them that understand them.
+
+
+        Even as one that looketh upon a scroll right fairly written, and knoweth not how to read
+        therein, praiseth the hand of the old scribe when he seeth the beauty of the points, but
+        what it saith, what those points mean, he knoweth not, and praiseth by the eye, without
+        understanding by the mind; and as, on the other hand, he that can not only gaze on it, as
+        can all men, but also can read it, praiseth the penmanship, and catcheth the sense likewise,
+        which the unlearned cannot do: even so, there were some that saw the miracles which Christ
+        did, and understood not what they meant, nor what they, as it were, hinted to such as did
+        understand them, and these only marvelled to see them wrought. And other some there were
+        which saw the works, and marvelled, and understood them, and profited by them. And it is as
+        these last that we ought to be in the school of Christ.
+    responsory:
+      la: "Numquid supplántat judícium? aut Omnípotens subvértit quod iustum est? † Líbera me, Dómine, et pone me juxta te: * Et cujúsvis manus pugnet contra me.\nV. Apprehénde arma et scutum, et exsúrge in adjutórium mihi.\nR. Et cujúsvis manus pugnet contra me."
+      en: "Does God pervert judgment, or does the Almighty overthrow that which is just? Deliver me, O Lord, and set me beside you, * And let any man's hand fight against me.\nV. Take hold of arms and shield: and rise up to help me.\nR. And let any man's hand fight against me."
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-nicholas-of-tolentino.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Nicholas of Tolentino, Confessor
+# (Sep 10) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/09-10*.txt at all; the
+# "bmv" suffix variant at this date is unrelated/empty).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-10.txt, English/Sancti/09-10.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.
+id: st-nicholas-of-tolentino
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Nicolaus, Tolentinas a diuturno illíus civitátis domicílio appellátus, in oppido sancti
+        Angeli in Piceno est natus piis paréntibus; qui, liberórum desidério Bárium voti causa
+        profecti, ibique a sancto Nicoláo de futura prole confirmáti, quem suscepérunt fílium de
+        illíus nómine appellarunt. Is ab infántia multárum virtútum, sed abstinéntiæ in primis,
+        specimen dedit. Nam anno vix septimo, beátum ipsum Nicolaum imitatus, complures hebdomadæ
+        dies jejunare cœpit; eamque póstea consuetúdinem retinuit, solo pane et aqua contentus.
+
+
+        Adulta ætate, jam clericali milítiæ adscriptus et canonicus factus, cum quodam die
+        concionatórem ordinis Eremitárum sancti Augustíni de mundi contemptu dicéntem audísset, eo
+        sermóne inflammatus, statim eumdem ordinem est ingréssus. In quo tam exactam religiosæ vitæ
+        ratiónem coluit, ut áspero vestítu, verbéribus et férrea catena corpus domans, atque a carne
+        et omni fere obsónio ábstinens, caritate, humilitate, patiéntia ceterisque virtútibus, aliis
+        prælucéret.
+
+
+        Orándi assiduum studium, quamvis sátanæ insídiis varie vexátus et flagellis intérdum cæsus,
+        non intermittebat. Demum, sex ante óbitum mensibus, singulis noctibus angelicum concentum
+        audívit; cujus suavitate cum jam paradisi gaudia prægustaret, crebro illud Apóstoli
+        repetebat: Cupio dissolvi, et esse cum Christo. Denique óbitus sui diem frátribus prædixit,
+        qui fuit quarto Idus Septembris. Miraculis multis étiam post mortem cláruit; quibus rite et
+        ordine cógnitis, ab Eugenio Papa quarto in Sanctórum númerum est relatus.
+      en: >-
+        This Nicholas is called Nicholas of Tolentino, because he lived in that town for most part
+        of his life. He was born at St. Angelo, a place near Fermo, in the March of Ancona. His
+        parents were godly people, and in their desire to have children, vowed and made a pilgrimage
+        to the shrine of St. Nicholas at Bari, where they were assured of their wish, and therefore
+        gave the name of Nicholas to the son whom they received. From his childhood the lad gave
+        many good signs, but especially as regarded abstinence. In his seventh year, in imitation of
+        his blessed name-sake, he began to fast upon several days in the week, which custom he
+        always kept, and was content with only bread and water.
+
+
+        After he reached man's estate, he enlisted himself in the army of the clergy, and was
+        preferred to a Canonry. One day he chanced to hear a sermon upon contempt of the world
+        delivered by a preacher of the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine, and was so moved by it
+        that he forthwith entered that Order. As a Friar he was most strictly observant of that way
+        of life. He subdued his body with rough clothing, stripes, and an iron chain. He never ate
+        meat, and seldom any relish to his meals. And he was a burning and shining light of love,
+        lowliness, long-suffering, and all other graces.
+
+
+        He persisted in constant and earnest prayer, notwithstanding many troubles from the assaults
+        of Satan, who sometimes even flogged him. Every night for six months before his death he
+        heard Angels singing with such sweetness, that it was a fore-taste of the happiness of
+        heaven, and he would often repeat the words of the Apostle: I have a desire to depart and to
+        be with Christ. Lastly, he foretold to his brethren the day of his death, which was the 10th
+        day of September. After his death also he was famous for miracles, and when due
+        investigation had been made thereof, Pope Eugene IV enrolled his name among those of the
+        Saints.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-pantaleon.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Pantaleon, Martyr (July 27) —
+# pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/07-27*.txt at all).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/07-27.txt, English/Sancti/07-27.txt. Single
+# lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source.
+id: st-pantaleon
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Pantáleon Nicomediénsis, nobilis médicus, ab Hermoláo presbytero in Jesu Christi fide
+        eruditus, baptizátus est. Qui mox patri Eustorgio persuasit, ut Christianus fieret. Quare,
+        cum Nicomedíæ póstea Christi Dómini fidem líbere prædicaret, et ad ejus doctrinam omnes
+        cohortarétur, Diocletiáno imperatóre, equuleo tortus, et, admotis ad ejus corpus láminis
+        candéntibus, cruciátus est. Quam tormentórum vim æquo et forti animo ferens, ad extremum
+        gládio percússus, martyrii corónam adeptus est.
+      en: >-
+        This Pantaleon was of a noble family of Nicomedia, and was a physician by trade. Hermolaus
+        the Priest taught him well the faith of Jesus Christ, and he was baptized. A little while
+        after, he persuaded his father Eustorgius to become a Christian. He afterwards duly preached
+        the Faith of the Lord Christ at Nicomedia, and exhorted all to embrace His doctrine. For this
+        he was tortured under the Emperor Diocletian, first on the rack, and then by putting red-hot
+        metal to his body. He bore all the bitterness of his torments with a quiet and brave heart,
+        and at last received the stroke of the sword, and grasped the crown of martyrdom.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-paul-the-hermit.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Paul the First Hermit (vu's calendar:
+# Jan 19, displaced from the general calendar's Jan 15 to make room for
+# St. Maurus there per Monastic practice — see memory
+# vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle"). Source is therefore
+# off-date: web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-15.txt and
+# English/Sancti/01-15.txt (NOT 01-19.txt, which is a different saint in
+# the general calendar — Ss. Marius/Martha/Audifax/Abachum, sourced
+# separately).
+#
+# Lectio4-6 is one continuous narrative (the encounter with St. Anthony),
+# no internal source break, so combined into a single reading per the
+# project's recombine rule. Lectio94 (the reduced-office alternate
+# summary) is skipped, same as Marcellus.
+#
+# Not authored here: Nocturn 3. The source file's own Lectio7-9 are
+# themselves a cross-reference (`@Sancti/02-24:Lectio7` etc.) to St.
+# Matthias's Gospel+homily (Matt 11:25-30 + St. Augustine, Sermon 10 on
+# the Words of the Lord) — genuinely part of Paul's day, but that source
+# file gives only the Gospel incipit ("Et réliqua"), no full pericope
+# text and no responsory of its own to transcribe from. Deferred rather
+# than fabricated; the bulk Vulgate/Douay-Rheims import (see TODO.md)
+# would resolve the Gospel side of this gap directly.
+id: st-paul-the-hermit
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Paulus, eremitárum auctor et magister, apud inferiórem Thebáidem natus, cum quindecim esset
+        annórum, orbátus paréntibus est. Qui postea declinandæ causa persecutiónis Decii et
+        Valeriáni, et Deo liberius inserviéndi, in eremi spelúncam se cóntulit: ubi, palma ei
+        victum et vestítum præbente, vixit ad centésimum et décimum tertium annum, quo témpore ab
+        Antonio nonagenario Dei admónitu invísitur. Quibus inter se, cum ántea non nossent, proprio
+        nómine consalutántibus, et multa de regno Dei colloquéntibus, corvus, qui ántea semper
+        Paulo dimidiátum panem attulerat, integrum détulit.
+
+
+        Post corvi discessum, Eja, inquit Paulus, Dóminus nobis prandium misit, vere pius, vere
+        miséricors. Sexagínta jam anni sunt, cum accipio quotídie dimidii panis fragméntum, nunc ad
+        advéntum tuum milítibus suis Christus duplicávit annonam. Quare cum gratiárum actióne ad
+        fontem capiéntes cibum, ubi tantisper recreáti sunt, íterum gratiis de more Deo actis,
+        noctem in divinis laudibus consumpsérunt. Dilúculo Paulus de morte, quæ sibi instaret,
+        ádmonens Antónium, hortátur, ut pallium, quod ab Athanasio acceperat, ad involvéndum suum
+        corpus afferret. Quo ex itinere rédiens ille, vidit inter Angelórum choros, inter
+        Prophetárum et Apostolórum cœtus Pauli ánimam in cælum ascendere.
+
+
+        Cumque ad ejus cellam pervenísset, invénit genibus complicatis, erecta cervice, exténsisque
+        in altum mánibus corpus exanime: quod pallio obvolvens, hymnosque et psalmos ex christiana
+        traditióne decantans, cum sárculum, quo terram fóderet, non haberet, duo leones ex
+        interiore erémo rápido cursu ad beáti senis corpus ferúntur; ut facile intelligerétur, eos,
+        quo modo póterant, plorátum édere: qui certatim terram pédibus effodiéntes, fóveam, quæ
+        hóminem commode cáperet, effecérunt. Qui cum abiísent, Antonius sanctum corpus in eum locum
+        íntulit; et injecta humo, tumulum ex christiáno more compósuit: túnicam vero Pauli, quam in
+        sportæ modum ex palmæ foliis ille sibi contexúerat, secum áuferens, eo vestítu diébus
+        solemnibus Paschæ et Pentecostes, quoad vixit, usus est.
+      en: >-
+        Paul the first hermit, and model of all others, was a native of the lower Thebaid in Egypt.
+        At the age of fifteen years he lost both his parents. In order to escape from the
+        persecution of Decius and Valerian, and to serve God in quietness, he betook himself to a
+        cave in the desert. Here there was a palm-tree, on the fruit of which he lived, and of
+        whose leaves he made his raiment until he attained the age of 113 years. At that time
+        Anthony, being now himself aged 90 years, received a command from God to go and see him.
+        They met without knowing one another's names, and saluted one another, after which they
+        fell straightway into a long discourse concerning the kingdom of God. Now it so happened
+        that a raven had of a long time brought Paul every day half a loaf, but on this day while
+        they spake together he brought a whole one.
+
+
+        When the raven had flown away, Well, quoth Paul, the Lord hath sent us our dinner. Truly He
+        is gracious; truly He is merciful. It is now sixty years that I have had half a loaf of
+        bread every day, but now that thou art come, Christ giveth His soldiers double rations.
+        Then they asked a blessing, and ate together, sitting by a spring. When they were
+        refreshed, they returned thanks, as is the custom, and afterwards spent the whole night
+        praising God. At break of day Paul felt the approach of death, and desired Anthony to bring
+        the cloak which Athanasius had given him, to use for his winding-sheet. While Anthony was
+        on his way back from this journey, he saw in a vision the soul of Paul ascending to heaven,
+        surrounded by choirs of angels, and accompanied by the Prophets and Apostles.
+
+
+        When Anthony reached the cell of Paul, he found the dead body of the Saint in a kneeling
+        posture, with the head thrown up and the hands stretched out towards heaven. He immediately
+        began to chant the psalms and hymns ordained by Christian tradition, while he wrapped the
+        body in the cloak of Athanasius. He had no spade to dig a grave, but two lions came roaring
+        from the desert, as though to attend the burying, and scratched a hole big enough to hold a
+        man's body, with their paws, showing meanwhile such signs of grief as their nature alloweth.
+        When they were gone away, Anthony put the holy body in this hole, covered it with earth,
+        and arranged it like a Christian's grave. He took away for himself Paul's tunic, which he
+        had woven out of the palm-leaves somewhat after the manner of basket-work, and this tunic
+        Anthony was in the habit of wearing on the great days of the Passover and Pentecost as long
+        as he lived.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-paulinus-of-nola.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Paulinus of Nola, Bishop and
+# Confessor (June 22) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/06-22*.txt at
+# all; the "n"/"t" suffix variants at this date are a modern 20th-c.
+# saint and a duplicate of the plain file, not relevant).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-22.txt, English/Sancti/06-22.txt.
+#
+# Lectio4-6 is this saint's own proper vita, one continuous account, no
+# internal break, combined into a single reading.
+#
+# Nocturn 3's Lectio7 gives only the Gospel incipit ("Et réliqua", Luke
+# 12:32-34) with no full pericope text, so the bare Gospel reading isn't
+# authored here (deferred, same as elsewhere pending the bulk
+# Vulgate/Douay-Rheims import). Lectio7's own homily portion + Lectio8-9
+# is one continuous excerpt from St. Paulinus's own sermon (fittingly,
+# on almsgiving to the poor — his own day, his own words), combined into
+# a single reading. No responsory given for either reading in the
+# source.
+id: st-paulinus-of-nola
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Póntius Merópius Anícius Paulínus, a claríssima cívium Romanórum família, Burdígalæ in
+        Aquitánia natus, acri fuit ingénio ac móribus suávibus. Ausónio magístro, eloquéntiæ ac
+        poéseos laude excélluit. Prænóbilis ac ditíssimus, honórum cursum ingréssus, florénti ætáte,
+        senatória dignitáte potítus est. Dein Itáliam pétiit consul, et Campániam provínciam nactus,
+        sedem Nolæ státuit. Hic divíno lúmine tactus, ob cæléstia signa, quæ Felícis presbyteri
+        Mártyris sepúlcrum illustrábant, veræ Christi fídei, quam jam ánimo cogitábat, impénsius
+        adhærére cœpit. Fasces ígitur ac secúrim nulla cæde maculátam depósuit, et revérsus in
+        Gálliam, váriis ærúmnis ac magnis terra maríque labóribus jactátus, óculo cápitur; sed a
+        beáto Martíno Turonénsi epíscopo sanitáti restitútus, lustrálibus baptísmatis aquis a beáto
+        Delphíno Burdigalénsi antístite ablúitur.
+
+
+        Divítiis quibus abundábat spretis, bona véndidit pretiúmque paupéribus distríbuit, et uxórem
+        linquens Therásiam, mutáta pátria et ruptis vínculis carnis, in Hispániam secéssit,
+        venerándam secútus ac toto sibi pretiosiórem orbe Christi paupériem. Barcinóne dum Sacris
+        devóte astáret, solémni die Domínicæ Nativitátis, repentíno admirátæ plebis tumúltu
+        corréptus, ac frustra relúctans, a Lampídio epíscopo présbyter ordinátur. Inde redit in
+        Itáliam, et Nolæ, quo sancti Felícis religióne ductus fúerat, penes illíus sepúlcrum
+        monastérium cóndidit, et adscítis sóciis cœnobíticam vitam aggréditur. Hic vir, jam senatória
+        et consulári dignitáte præclárus, stultítiam crucis ampléxus, toto fere orbe admiránte, vili
+        indútus túnica, vigílias inter ac jejúnia, in assídua cæléstium rerum contemplatióne dies
+        noctésque defíxus manébat. Sed, percrescénte sanctimóniæ fama, ad Nolánum episcopátum
+        evéhitur, atque eódem in pastoráli múnere obeúndo, miránda pietátis, sapiéntiæ ac potíssimum
+        caritátis exémpla relíquit.
+
+
+        Hæc inter, sapiéntia reférta, de religióne ac fide pertractántia edíderat scripta, sæpe étiam
+        númeris indúlgens concínnis carmínibus Sanctórum acta concelebráverat, summam christiáni
+        poétæ famam adéptus. Quotquot sanctitáte ac doctrína præstantíssimi viri eo témpore erant,
+        tot sibi amicítia atque admiratióne devínxit. Quamplúrimi ad eum, ceu ad christiánæ
+        perfectiónis magístrum, undequáquam confluébant. Vastáta a Gothis Campánia, facultátem
+        omnem, ne relíctis quidem sibi rebus ad vitam necessáriis, in aléndos páuperes et captívos
+        rediméndos cóntulit. Póstea vero, Vándalis eásdem regiónes infestántibus, cum ab eo pósceret
+        vídua ut fílium sibi redímeret ab hóstibus captum; consúmptis bonis ómnibus, in offício
+        pietátis, se ipsum pro illo tradit in servitútem, atque in víncula conjéctus in Africam
+        rápitur. Tandem, non sine præsénti Dei ope, libertáte donátus et Nolam revérsus, diléctum
+        ovíle bonus pastor revísit; ibíque annum agens septuagésimum octávum ætátis suæ,
+        placidíssimo éxitu obdormívit in Dómino. Corpus, prope sancti Felícis sepúlcrum cónditum,
+        póstea, Longobardórum témpore, Benevéntum, atque, Ottóne tértio imperatóre, Romam ad
+        basílicam sancti Bartholomæi ad ínsulam Tiberínam translátum fuit. Pius vero Papa décimus
+        jussit sacras Paulíni exúvias Nolæ restítui, et festum ipsíus ad ritum dúplicem pro univérsa
+        Ecclésia evéxit.
+      en: >-
+        Pontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus was born of a most illustrious family of Roman citizens at
+        Bordeaux, in Aquitaine, and was of keen intelligence and graceful manners. With Ausonius as
+        his master, he was honourably distinguished for eloquence and poetry. Being of the higher
+        nobility, and very wealthy, he began a career of honours in the flower of his youth, and
+        attained senatorial dignity. Then he went to Italy as consul, where he obtained the province
+        of Campania and fixed his residence at Nola. Here he was struck, as by a ray of the divine
+        light, by the heavenly miracles which were making illustrious the tomb of Felix, Priest and
+        Martyr, and began to adhere more earnestly to the true faith of Christ, which he had long
+        been revolving in his mind. And so he resigned the consular fasces and axe, never defiled by
+        blood, and returned to Gaul, and after suffering various hardships and many toils both by
+        land and by sea he received an injury to the eye; but being restored to health by the
+        blessed Martin, Bishop of Tours, he was washed in the lustral waters of baptism by the
+        blessed Delphinus, Bishop of Bordeaux.
+
+
+        He despised his abundant wealth, sold his property, and gave the money to the poor, and left
+        his wife Therasia, changed his country, broke all natural ties, and retired to Spain,
+        conforming to the more precious poverty of Christ, which he valued more than the whole
+        world. While he was devoutly assisting at Mass in Barcelona on the feast of the Lord's
+        Nativity, he was suddenly seized by force by an admiring crowd, and in spite of his
+        reluctance, ordained priest by the Bishop Lampidius. Then he returned to Italy, and at Nola,
+        where he had been drawn by devotion to St. Felix, he built a monastery near his tomb, and
+        entered upon the monastic life with some companions. This man, already notable for his
+        senatorial and consular dignity, embraced the folly of the cross to the admiration of almost
+        the whole world, and, clothed in a mean garment, in vigils and in fastings, remained for days
+        and nights fixed in constant contemplation of heavenly things. But, as the fame of his
+        sanctity spread, he was elevated to the see of Nola, and entering upon that pastoral office,
+        he gave a wonderful example of piety, wisdom, and above all, of charity.
+
+
+        Meanwhile he had produced writings full of wisdom, treating of religion and faith, and often
+        also as a recreation, he had celebrated the deeds of the Saints in numerous elegant poems,
+        attaining the highest fame as a Christian poet. All the men living at that time who were
+        pre-eminent for holiness and learning, he attached to himself with the bonds of friendship
+        and admiration. Very many flocked to him from all parts of the country, as if to a master of
+        Christian perfection. When Campania was laid waste by the Goths, he devoted all his
+        resources to feeding the poor, and ransoming captives, without even leaving for himself the
+        necessities of life. And after that, when the Vandals invaded the same region, a widow
+        begged him to ransom her son who had been captured by the enemy; and as he had spent all his
+        resources in works of piety, he sold himself into slavery in the young man's place, and was
+        taken in chains to Africa. At length he was set at liberty, not without the evident
+        assistance of God, and, returning to Nola, the good shepherd once more saw his beloved
+        flock. There, in a most peaceful end, he fell asleep in the Lord in the seventy-eighth year
+        of his age. His body was buried near the tomb of St. Felix, and later, in the time of the
+        Lombards, was translated to Benevento and, under the Emperor Otto III, to Rome, where it was
+        laid in the basilica of St. Bartholomew on an island in the Tiber. But Pope Pius X ordered
+        the sacred relics of Paulinus to be restored to Nola, and he raised his feast to the rite of
+        a double for the universal Church.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 3
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, Sermon (Epistle 34), \"De Gazophylacio\""
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Potúerat, dilectíssimi, Dóminus omnípotens æque univérsos dívites fácere, ut nemo indigéret
+        áltero; sed infinítæ bonitátis consílio sic parávit miséricors et miserátor Dóminus, ut tuam
+        in illis mentem probet. Fecit míserum, ut agnósceret misericórdem; fecit ínopem, ut exercéret
+        opuléntum. Matéria divitiárum tibi est fratérna paupértas, si intélligas super egénum et
+        páuperem, nec tibi tantum hábeas quod accepísti; quia ídeo et illíus partem tibi in hoc
+        sæculo cóntulit Deus, ut tibi debéret quidquid de suis donis tuo voluntário afféctu
+        indigéntibus obtulísses, ac te vicíssim in ætérna die de illíus parte ditáret. Per ipsos enim
+        nunc áccipit Christus, et tunc pro ipsis repéndet.
+
+
+        Réfice esuriéntem ánimam, et non timébis in die malo ab ira superventúra. Beátus enim
+        (inquit), qui intélligit super egénum et páuperem, in die malo liberábit eum Dóminus. Operáre
+        ígitur et éxcole hanc regiónem terræ tuæ, frater, ut gérminet tibi frugem fértilem, plenam
+        ádipe fruménti, magno cum fœnore centésimum tibi fructum multiplicáti séminis afferéntem. In
+        hujus vel possessiónis vel negotiatiónis appetítum et stúdium sancta et salutáris est
+        avarítia; nam talis cupíditas, quæ regnum cæléste merétur et bonum perénne desíderat, radix
+        bonórum est. Tales ígitur divítias concupíscite, et hujúsmodi possidéte patrimónium, quod in
+        centénos fructus vobis créditor pénsitet, ut vestros quoque vobíscum bonis perénnibus
+        augeátis herédes. Posséssio enim hæc vere magna et pretiósa est, quæ possessórem suum non
+        cúmulo sæculári ónerat, sed réditu ditat ætérno.
+
+
+        Verum, dilectíssimi, non solum ut bona ætérna quærátis, sed ut mala innúmera vitáre
+        mereámini, præsénti sollicitúdine et sédula operatióne justítiæ providéte. Magno enim
+        adjutório atque præsídio nobis opus est, et multárum atque indeficiéntium oratiónum
+        patrocíniis indigémus. Adversárius enim noster non quiéscit, et in nostrum pérvigil hostis
+        intéritum óbsidet omnes vias nostras. Multæ prætérea nobis in hoc sæculo cruces, innúmera
+        discrímina, morbórum labes, fébrium ignes et dolórum tela grassántur in ánimas, cupiditátum
+        faces accendúntur; ubíque præténti latent láquei, úndique stricti horrent gládii, inter
+        insídias et pugnas vita transígitur, et per ignes dolóso cíneri suppósitos ambulámus. Igitur,
+        priúsquam in áliquam tantárum ægritúdinum labem casu vel mérito actus incúrras, festína
+        médico suscéptus et carus fíeri, ut in témpore necessitátis parátum hábeas remédium salútis.
+        Aliud est, quando tu solus oras pro te; et áliud, quando multitúdo pro te apud Deum
+        trépidat.
+      en: >-
+        The Lord who is omnipotent, dearly beloved, might have made all men equally rich, so that no
+        one need ask anything from another. In his infinite goodness, however, the merciful and
+        gracious Lord hath planned otherwise, in order to prove your disposition in these matters.
+        He hath made misery, that he might discern mercy; he hath made the needy, that he might make
+        use of the rich. For your brother's poverty is your material of riches, if ye do not
+        understand concerning the needy and the poor, and do not consider as your own what wealth ye
+        have received. For God hath bestowed upon you your brother's portion in this world, in order
+        that ye should offer of your own willing affection something of his gifts to those in need,
+        and that he may enrich you in your turn with that portion in eternity. For now Christ
+        receiveth through them, and hereafter he will repay for them.
+
+
+        Refresh the hungry soul, and ye will not fear the wrath to come in the evil day. For, saith
+        he, Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and poor; the Lord will deliver
+        him in the evil day. Therefore, brother, work and cultivate this parcel of thy land, that it
+        may bear for you a rich crop, full of the fatness of wheat, bringing to you with great
+        interest the fruit of the seed an hundred times multiplied. In the desire and pursuit of
+        this business or this possession there is a holy and salutary avarice; for such desire which
+        doth merit the kingdom of heaven, and doth long for eternal goods, is the root of all good.
+        Therefore covet such riches, and take possession of this kind of patrimony, that the
+        creditor may weigh out to you the fruit increased an hundredfold, and ye and your heirs may
+        abound in everlasting good things. For this possession is great and precious, which doth not
+        burden the owner with earthly wealth, but enricheth him with an eternal reward.
+
+
+        Truly, dearly beloved, by present carefulness and constant just dealing, provide not only
+        that ye seek eternal good things, but that ye may deserve to escape innumerable evils. For we
+        require strong helps and protection, and stand in need of many and unceasing prayers for our
+        defence. For our adversary does not rest, and the ever-watchful enemy besetteth all our ways
+        in order to work our ruin. Moreover, in this world we have many crosses, very numerous
+        struggles, pestilent diseases, fires of fever and stabs of pain do violence to our souls. The
+        flames of lust are kindled; hidden snares are set everywhere, on all sides there bristle
+        drawn swords, life is passed in the midst of ambushes and combats, and we walk through fires
+        craftily buried under ashes. Therefore before ye should by your misfortune or your fault rush
+        into any one of such great calamities, hasten to become acceptable and dear to the physician,
+        so that in time of need ye may have ready the remedy of salvation. It is one thing when ye
+        alone pray for yourself; and quite another when a multitude entreateth for you before God.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-polycarp.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 readings for St. Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr (Jan 26)
+# — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/01-26*.txt at all).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-26.txt, English/Sancti/01-26.txt.
+# Lectio4 (St. Jerome's biographical note, De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis
+# cap. 17) is a genuinely distinct source from Lectio5-6 (a cross-ref,
+# `@Sancti/07-13:Lectio5/6` — St. Ambrose's Exposition on Psalm 118,
+# borrowed from St. Anacletus's own file but proper to this day too) —
+# kept as two separate readings. Lectio5-6 combined into one (continuous,
+# no internal break). Lectio7-9 are Common-of-a-Martyr (skipped, not
+# proper). No responsory given in either source file.
+id: st-polycarp
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Jerome, Priest, De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, ch. 17"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Polycárpus, Joánnis Apóstoli discípulus et ab eo Smyrnæ epíscopus ordinátus, totíus Asiæ
+        princeps fuit, quippe qui nonnúllos Apostolórum et eórum qui víderant Dóminum, magístros
+        habúerit et víderit. Hic propter quasdam super die Paschæ quæstiónes, sub imperatóre
+        Antoníno Pio, Ecclésiam in Urbe regénte Anicéto, Romam venit; ubi plúrimos credéntium,
+        Marciónis et Valentíni persuasióne decéptos, redúxit ad fidem. Cumque ei fortúito óbviam
+        fuísset Márcion et díceret: Cognóscis nos? respóndit: Cognósco primogénitum diáboli. Póstea
+        vero, regnánte Marco Antoníno et Lúcio Aurélio Cómmodo, quarta post Nerónem persecutióne,
+        Smyrnæ, sedénte procónsule et univérso pópulo in amphitheátro advérsus eum personánte, igni
+        tráditus est. Scripsit ad Philippénses valde útilem epístolam, quæ usque hódie in Asiæ
+        convéntu légitur.
+      en: >-
+        Polycarp was a disciple of the Apostle John, and was consecrated by him Bishop of Smyrna. He
+        was reckoned the chief of all the Christians of Asia, because he had been taught by several
+        of the Apostles, and other persons who had seen the Lord. During the reign of the Emperor
+        Antoninus Pius, and while Anicetus presided over the Church of Rome, Polycarp came thither
+        to discuss some questions regarding the time for observing Easter. He found some heretics
+        at Rome, who had been led astray by the doctrine of Marcion and Valentine, and brought back
+        many of them to the faith. One day Marcion met him by accident, and said to him: Do you
+        recognise me? whereto he replied: I recognise the devil's eldest son. Some time after, in
+        the reign of Mark Antonine and Lucius Aurelius Commodus, during the fourth persecution
+        since Nero, when the Pro-consul was ruling in Smyrna, the whole population being assembled
+        in the theatre, clamoured against Polycarp, and to please them he was burnt. He wrote an
+        extremely useful Epistle to the Philippians, which is publicly read in the Churches of Asia
+        even to this day.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
+
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Exposition on Psalm 118, Sermon 21"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Principes persecuti sunt me gratis: et a verbis tuis trepidavit cor meum. Bene hoc Martyr
+        dicit, quod injuste persecutionum tormenta sustineat: qui nihil rapuerit, nullum violentus
+        oppresserit, nullius sanguinem fuderit, nullius torum putaverit esse violandum: qui nihil
+        legibus debeat, et graviora latronum sustinere cogatur supplicia: qui loquatur juste, et non
+        audiatur: qui loquatur plena salutis, et impugnetur: ut possit dicere, Cum loquebar illis,
+        impugnabant me gratis. Gratis igitur persecutionem patitur, qui impugnatur sine crimine
+        impugnatur ut noxius, cum sit in tali confessione laudabilis: impugnatur quasi veneficus,
+        qui in nomine Domini gloriatur, cum pietas virtutum omnium fundamentum sit.
+
+
+        Vere frustra impugnatur, qui apud impios et infidos impietatis arcessitur, cum fidei sit
+        magister. Verum qui gratis impugnatur, fortis debet esse et constans, quomodo ergo
+        subtexuit: Et a verbis tuis trepidavit cor meum? Trepidare infirmitatis est, timoris atque
+        formidinis. Sed est étiam infirmitas ad salutem, est étiam timor sanctorum. Timete Dominum
+        omnes sancti ejus: et, Beatus vir, qui timet Dominum. Qua ratione beatus? Quia in mandatis
+        ejus cupit nimis.
+      en: >-
+        Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy word. These
+        are rightly the words of a martyr, who beareth unjustly the torments of the persecutors,
+        who hath robbed no man, who hath violently oppressed no man, who hath shed the blood of no
+        man, who hath imagined to defile the bed of no man, who is debtor to the laws in nothing,
+        and who is punished more grievously than if he were a robber: who speaketh righteousness,
+        and there is none that will hear: who speaketh salvation, and all men fight against him: who
+        is able to say: "When I spoke unto them, they fought against me without a cause." (Ps.
+        cxix. 7.) They fight against him without a cause, who can lay no sin to his charge; they
+        fight against him as an evildoer, who is by their own acknowledgment righteous: they fight
+        against him as a warlock, who glorieth in the name of the Lord, and who doeth all things
+        well because he doeth all things for God's sake.
+
+
+        Verily, him that is fought against without a cause it behoveth to be strong and patient.
+        Wherefore then saith he: My heart standeth in awe of thy word? Awe is the mark of the weak,
+        the timid, and the fearful. But there is also a weakness unto salvation, there is a fear
+        which is an holy fear. O fear the Lord, all ye His Saints. (Ps. xxxiii. 10.) And again:
+        Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord. (Ps. cxi. 1.) And wherefore is he blessed? because
+        he delighteth greatly in His commandments.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-praxedes.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Praxedes, Virgin (July 21) —
+# pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/07-21*.txt at all; the "r" suffix
+# variant at this date is a different saint, St. Lawrence of Brindisi,
+# not relevant). web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/07-21.txt,
+# English/Sancti/07-21.txt. Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no
+# responsory in the source.
+id: st-praxedes
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Praxédes, virgo Romana, Pudentiánæ vírginis soror, Marco Antonino imperatóre Christiános
+        persequente, eos facultátibus, opera, consolatióne, et omni caritátis officio prosequebátur.
+        Nam alios domi occultábat; alios ad fidei constantiam hortabátur: aliórum córpora sepeliebat;
+        iis, qui in carcere inclusi erant, qui in ergástulis exercebántur, nulla re déerat. Quæ, cum
+        tantam Christianórum stragem jam ferre non posset, Deum precáta est, ut, si mori expediret,
+        se e tantis malis eríperet. Itaque duodecimo Kalendas Augusti ad pietátis præmia vocátur in
+        cælum. Cujus corpus a Pastore presbytero in patris et sororis Pudentiánæ sepúlcrum illátum
+        est, quod erat in cœmeterio Priscillæ, via Salaria.
+      en: >-
+        This Praxedes was a maiden of Rome, and the sister of the maiden Pudentiana. When the
+        Emperor Marcus Antoninus was hunting down the Christians, she followed them constantly with
+        money, labour, comfort, and every helpful office of Christian charity. Some she hid in her
+        house, some she exhorted to firmness in professing the faith, of some she buried the bodies.
+        For them that were in prison, and them that were toiling in slavery, she supplied every need.
+        At last the sight of such butchery of Christians was more than she could bear, and she
+        implored God that if it were expedient for her to die, He would release her from such
+        suffering. And so upon the 21st day of July she was called away to receive the reward of her
+        godly conversation in heaven. Pastor the Priest laid her body in the grave of her father
+        (Pudens) and her sister Pudentiana, which was in the cemetery of Priscilla, upon the Salarian
+        Way.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-silverius.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Silverius, Pope and Martyr (June 20) —
+# pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/06-20*.txt at all; the "t" suffix
+# variant at this date is an empty stub, not relevant).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-20.txt, English/Sancti/06-20.txt. Single
+# lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source. The
+# English source has an evident stray-word artifact ("for defending Save
+# the heresy of Eutyches") — transcribed here as "the heresy of
+# Eutyches", dropping the stray "Save".
+id: st-silverius
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Silverius Campanus post Agapitum proxime Pontifex creatus est: cujus doctrina et sanctitas
+        illuxit in insectandis hæreticis, et constantis animi magnitudo perspecta est in tuendo
+        judicio Agapiti. Nam Anthimum, quem, quia Eutychianam hæresim defendebat, Agapitus ab
+        episcopatu Constantinopolitano deposuerat, cum a Theodora Augusta sæpissime rogatus esset,
+        restituere noluit. Quam ob rem irata mulier mandat Belisario ut Silverium mittat in
+        exsilium. Qui exsulavit in insula Pontia, unde his verbis scripsisse fertur ad Amatorem
+        episcopum: Sustentor pane tribulationis et aqua angustiæ; nec tamen dimisi, aut dimitto
+        officium meum. Et sane, brevi incommodis ærumnisque confectus, obdormivit in Domino,
+        duodecimo Kalendas Julii; Cujus corpus Romam delatum, et in basilica Vaticana depositum,
+        multis miraculis illustratum fuit. Præfuit Ecclesiæ annos tres et amplius, creatis mense
+        Decembri presbyteris tredecim, diaconis quinque, episcopis per diversa loca decem et novem.
+      en: >-
+        This Silverius was a native of Campania, and succeeded Agapitus in the Papacy. His
+        orthodoxy and holiness shone brightest in his onslaughts upon heretics, and he showed
+        admirable firmness in upholding a sentence by Agapitus. Agapitus had deposed Anthimus from
+        the Patriarchate of Constantinople for defending the heresy of Eutyches; and Silverius would
+        never allow of his restoration, although the Empress Theodora repeatedly asked him to do so.
+        The woman was enraged at him on this account, and ordered Belisarius to send Silverius into
+        exile. He was accordingly banished to the island of Ponza, whence he is said to have written
+        these words to Bishop Amator: I am fed upon the bread of tribulation and the water of
+        affliction, but nevertheless I have not given up, and I will not give up, doing my duty. But
+        sickness and the hardships of his exile soon broke his strength, and he fell asleep in the
+        Lord upon the 20th day of June. Many miracles shed a lustre upon his grave. He ruled the
+        Church for more than three years, and ordained in the month of December thirteen Priests,
+        five Deacons, and nineteen Bishops for diverse Sees.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-stanislaus.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr (May 7)
+# — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/05-07*.txt at all).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-07.txt, English/Sancti/05-07.txt.
+# Lectio4-6 is this saint's own proper text, one continuous vita account,
+# no internal break, combined into a single reading; Lectio7-9 (not
+# present in this file, implicitly Common) skipped. No responsory given.
+id: st-stanislaus
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Stanislaus Polonus, apud Cracoviam nobili genere natus et piis paréntibus, qui antea per
+        annos trigínta stériles, illum a Deo precibus impetrarunt, ab ineunte ætate futuræ
+        sanctitátis specimen dedit. Adoléscens bonis artibus operam navávit, multumque in sacra
+        cánonum et theologíæ doctrina profecit. Paréntibus mórtuis, amplum patrimónium paupéribus
+        distríbuit, vitæ monasticæ desidério. Sed Dei providéntia canonicus Cracoviénsis et
+        concionátor factus a Lampérto epíscopo, in ejus póstea locum, quamvis invitus, suffícitur.
+        Quo in múnere, ómnium pastorálium virtútum laude, et præcípue misericórdia in páuperes,
+        enítuit.
+
+
+        Erat tum Poloniæ rex Bolesláus, quem gráviter offendit, quod illíus notam libidinem publice
+        arguebat. Quare in solemni regni convéntu Stanisláum per calumniam in judícium coram se
+        vocari curat, tamquam pagum occuparet, quem ecclésiæ suæ nómine coémerat. Quod cum neque
+        tabulis probare posset, et testes veritátem cidere timerent, spondet epíscopus, se Petrum
+        pagi venditórem, qui triennio ante obíerat, intra dies tres in judícium adducturum.
+        Conditióne cum risu accepta, vir Dei toto triduo jejuniis et oratióni incumbit; ipso
+        sponsiónis die, post oblátum Missæ sacrifícium, Petrum e sepúlcro surgere jubet; qui statim
+        redivivus, episcopum ad regium tribunal euntem sequitur, ibique, rege et ceteris stupore
+        attónitis, de agro a se véndito et pretio rite sibi ab episcopo persoluto testimónium dicit,
+        atque íterum in Dómino obdormívit.
+
+
+        At Boleslaum, frustra sæpe admónitum, Stanisláus tandem a fidelium communióne rémovet. Ille,
+        iracúndia furens, milites in ecclésiam immíttit, ut sanctum episcopum confodiant; qui, ter
+        conati, occúlta vi, tertio divinitus sunt depulsi. Postremo ímpius rex sacerdotem Dei,
+        Hostiam immaculátam ad altáre offeréntem, sua manu obtruncat. Corpus, membratim concisum et
+        per agros projectum, áquilæ a feris mirabíliter defendunt. Mox canonici Cracovienses sparsa
+        membra, nocturni de cælo splendoris indicio cólligunt, et suis locis apte disponunt; quæ
+        súbito ita inter se copuláta sunt, ut nulla vúlnerum vestígia exstarent. Multis præterea
+        miraculis servi sui sanctitátem Deus declarávit post ejus mortem: quibus permotus Innocentius
+        quartus, summus Pontifex, illum in Sanctórum númerum rétulit. Clemens vero octavus, Pontifex
+        maximus, sancti Stanislai festo die in Románum Breviárium reláto, gloriósi Mártyris memóriam
+        dúplici Officio ubíque celebrári jussit.
+      en: >-
+        This Stanislaw was a Pole. He was born of a noble family at Cracow. His godly parents, who
+        had been childless for thirty years, obtained him from God by prayer, and from his earliest
+        years he gave token of the holiness of life which afterwards marked him. When he was a young
+        man he applied himself heartily to all useful learning, and was deeply read in the sacred
+        teaching of the Canons and of Theological science. After the death of his parents he
+        inherited great possessions, but he sold them, and distributed the price to the poor,
+        purposing himself to become a monk. However, by the Providence of God, Lampert, Bishop of
+        Cracow, named him Canon of the Cathedral Church of that diocese, and Preacher in the same,
+        and afterwards he was elected, against his own will, to succeed to Lampert's place. In this
+        office he was a bright and shining light of all virtues that become a shepherd of souls,
+        especially of tenderness toward the poor.
+
+
+        At that time Boleslaw II was King of Poland, and him Stanislaw grievously offended, because
+        he openly rebuked him for his shameless lust. Wherefore, in a solemn Parliament of his
+        kingdom, he made Stanislaw to be brought before him on a false accusation of having taken
+        wrongfully a certain village, which he had bought in the name of his Church. The Bishop
+        could not rebut this charge by documents, and the witnesses were in too great fear to speak
+        the truth. Stanislaw therefore said that in three days he would produce before the
+        judgment-seat one Peter, from whom he had bought the village, and who had been dead three
+        years. His enemies laughed thereat, and closed with his proposal, and the man of God gave
+        himself up to fasting and prayer for three days. On the day which he had promised, after he
+        had offered up the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, he commanded Peter to rise from the grave.
+        Peter then immediately came to life, arose, and followed Stanislaw to the King's
+        judgment-seat, where before the King and all others, who were struck dumb with amazement, he
+        bore witness of the sale of the village, and the honest payment of the price by the Bishop,
+        and then again fell asleep in the Lord.
+
+
+        Stanislaw often rebuked Boleslaw, but when he found it was in vain, he at last cut him off
+        from the communion of Christ's faithful people. Thereupon Boleslaw became frenzied with
+        rage, and sent soldiers to the Church to murder the holy Bishop. This they thrice essayed to
+        do, but God was pleased that they should be held back by some unseen power. In the end, the
+        ungodly King with his own hand cut off the head of the Priest of God as he was standing at
+        the Altar offering up the Sacrifice without spot. His body was hewn into pieces and strewn
+        about the fields, but the eagles strangely kept the beasts of prey off it. The Canons of the
+        Cathedral of Cracow soon gathered together the mutilated and scattered limbs, which they
+        were enabled to see by a lightness which overspread the sky at night, and they fitted them
+        together, each into his place. The relics immediately so joined themselves one to the other,
+        that no marks of wounds remained. Moreover, God was pleased to manifest the holiness of His
+        servant by many wonders after his death, by the which being moved, Pope Innocent IV added
+        his name to those of the Saints, and the Supreme Pontiff Clement VIII gave his Feast a place
+        in the Service Book of the Church of Rome, commanding that the memory of so glorious a
+        Martyr should be everywhere celebrated under the Double rite.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-timothy.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Timothy, Bishop and Martyr (Jan 24) —
+# pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/01-24*.txt at all).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-24.txt, English/Sancti/01-24.txt.
+# Lectio4-5 is this saint's own proper text, one continuous account, no
+# internal break, combined into a single reading; Lectio6 is a bare
+# `@Commune/C2:Lectio4` reference (not proper), skipped per this
+# project's existing "no Common fallback authored into this store"
+# pattern. No responsory given in the source.
+id: st-timothy
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Timótheus, Lystris in Lycaónia natus ex patre Gentíli et matre Judǽa, christiánam colébat
+        religiónem, cum in ea loca venit Paulus Apóstolus. Qui fama commótus, quæ de Timóthei
+        sanctitáte percrebúerat, ipsum adhíbuit sócium suæ peregrinatiónis: sed propter Judǽos qui
+        se ad Christum convérterant, sciéntes Timóthei patrem esse Gentílem, eum circumcídit. Cum
+        ígitur ambo Ephesum veníssent, ibi ordinátus est epíscopus ab Apóstolo, ut eam ecclésiam
+        gubernáret.
+
+
+        Ad quem Apóstolus duas epístolas scripsit, álteram Laodicéa, álteram Roma. Quibus in
+        pastorális offícii cura confirmátus, cum sacrifícium, quod uni Deo debétur fíeri dǽmonum
+        simulácris, ferre non posset; pópulum Ephesínum, Diánæ in ejus celebritáte immolántem, ab
+        illa impietáte removére conátus, lapídibus óbrutus est; ac pene mórtuus, a Christiánis
+        eréptus et in montem óppido vicínum delátus, nono Kaléndas Februárii obdormívit in Dómino.
+      en: >-
+        Timothy was a native of Lystra in Lycaonia, born of a Gentile father and a Jewish mother.
+        He embraced the Christian religion when the Apostle Paul came into those parts. The holy
+        Apostle was so struck with the fame of Timothy's sanctity, that he chose him to be the
+        companion of his journeys, and caused him to be circumcised, in order to remove a
+        stumbling-block from the way of those Jews who felt drawn to Christianity. When they came
+        together to Ephesus, the Apostle consecrated him Bishop of that Church.
+
+
+        Two of the Apostle Paul's Epistles are addressed to this Saint, of which one was written
+        from Laodicea, and the other from Rome. These sacred writings so stirred him up to the
+        zealous discharge of his duties as a spiritual shepherd, that he strove to prevent the
+        people of Ephesus from sacrificing to Artemis on her feastday, knowing that sacrifice is
+        due to God alone. The heathens thereupon stoned him till he was well-nigh dead, and
+        although he was rescued by the Christians, and carried to a mountain near the city, he then
+        fell asleep in the Lord, on the 24th day of January.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-zephyrinus.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Zephyrinus, Pope and Martyr (Aug 26)
+# — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/08-26*.txt at all).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-26.txt, English/Sancti/08-26.txt. Single
+# lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source.
+id: st-zephyrinus
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Zephyrinus Romanus Severo imperatore ad regendam Ecclesiam assumptus, sancivit, ut qui
+        ordinandi essent, opportuno tempore et multis præsentibus clericis et laicis, de more sacris
+        initiarentur; doctique ac spectatæ vitæ homines ad id officii munus deligerentur. Decrevit
+        præterea, ut rem divinam facienti episcopo sacerdotes omnes astarent. Idem instituit ut
+        patriarcha, primas, metropolitanus adversus episcopum non ferant sententiam, nisi apostolica
+        auctoritate fulti. Vixit in pontificatu annos decem et octo, dies decem et octo. Habuit
+        ordinationes quatuor mense Decembri, quibus creavit presbyteros tredecim, diaconos septem,
+        episcopos per diversa loca tredecim. Antonino imperatore martyrio coronatus est, et sepultus
+        via Appia prope cemeterium Callisti, septimo Kalendas Septembris.
+      en: >-
+        Pope Zephyrinus was a Roman, who was called to govern the Church during the reign of the
+        Emperor Severus. It was he who decreed that they who are to be ordained should be ordained
+        only at a fit time, and in the presence of many clerks and laymen, as was indeed already the
+        custom, and that none but learned men and well known and spoken of should be set apart to
+        that office. He decreed also that when the Bishop celebrated the Holy Liturgy, all the
+        Priests should be present around him. Also he decreed that no Patriarch, Primate, or
+        Metropolitan should pronounce sentence on a Bishop, unless they were charged with the
+        authority of the Apostolic See. He lived as Pope eighteen years, eighteen days. He held four
+        December ordinations, wherein he made thirteen Priests, seven Deacons, and thirteen Bishops
+        for diverse places. He received the crown of his testimony under the Emperor Antonine, and
+        was buried on the Appian Way, near the cemetery of Callistus, upon the 26th day of August.
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/vigil-of-st-andrew.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for the Vigil of St. Andrew the Apostle
+# (Nov 29) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/11-29*.txt at all).
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/11-29.txt, English/Sancti/11-29.txt.
+#
+# Lectio1's Gospel portion (John 1:35-51) gives only the incipit ("Et
+# réliqua"), so the bare Gospel reading isn't authored here (deferred,
+# pending the bulk Vulgate/Douay-Rheims import). Lectio1's own homily
+# portion + Lectio2-3 is one continuous excerpt from St. Augustine's
+# Tractate 7 on John, combined into a single reading. No responsory
+# given.
+id: vigil-of-st-andrew
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Tractate 7 on John"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Quia talis erat Joannes amicus sponsi, non quærebat gloriam suam, sed testimonium perhibebat
+        veritati: numquid voluit apud se remanere discipulos suos, ut non sequerentur Dominum? Magis
+        ipse ostendit discipulis suis quem sequerentur: habebant enim illum tamquam agnum. Et ille:
+        Quid me attenditis: Ego non sum agnus. Ecce Agnus Dei. De quo et superius dixerat: Ecce
+        Agnus Dei. Et quid nobis prodest Agnus Dei? Ecce, ait, qui tollit peccatum mundi. Secuti sunt
+        illum, hoc audito, duo qui erant cum Joanne.
+
+
+        Videamus sequentia. Ecce Agnus Dei. Hoc Joannes. Et audierunt eum duo discipuli loquentem, et
+        secuti sunt Jesum. Non sic illum sequebantur, quasi jam ut inhærerent illi: nam manifestum
+        est, quando illi inhæserunt, quia de navi eos vocavit. In his enim duobus erat Andreas, sicut
+        modo audistis. Andreas autem frater Petri erat. Et novimus in Evangelio quod Petrum et
+        Andream Dominus de navi vocavit, dicens: Venite post me, et faciam vos piscatores hominum. Et
+        ex illo jam inhæserunt illi, ut non recederent.
+
+
+        Modo ergo quod illum sequuntur isti duo, non quasi non recessuri sequuntur, sed videre
+        voluerunt ubi habitaret, et facere quod scriptum est: Limen ostiorum ejus exterat pes tuus:
+        surge ad illum venire assidue, et erudire præceptis ejus. Ostendit eis ille ubi maneret:
+        venerunt, et fuerunt cum illo. Quam beatum diem duxerunt, quam beatam noctem! Quis est, qui
+        nobis dicat quæ audierint illi a Domino? Aedificemus et nosmetipsi in corde nostro, et
+        faciamus domum, quo veniat ille, et doceat nos, et colloquatur nobis.
+      en: >-
+        Since John was the friend of the Bridegroom, he sought not his own glory, but bare witness to
+        the truth. Would he that his disciples should remain with him rather than that they should
+        follow the Lord? Nay, he showed his disciples Whom they should follow. They thought that he
+        himself was the Lamb; but he saith: Why wait ye on me? I am not the Lamb. Behold the Lamb of
+        God! This was He of Whom he had already said above: Behold the Lamb of God! And what use to
+        us is the Lamb of God? Behold the Lamb of God, saith John, Which taketh away the sin of the
+        world. And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
+
+
+        Let us see what followed. John stood, and two of his disciples; and looking on Jesus as He
+        walked, he saith: Behold the Lamb of God! And the two disciples heard him speak, and they
+        followed Jesus. They followed Him, not yet to cleave unto Him, for it is manifest that they
+        clave unto Him only after that He had called them out of the ship. One of the two which
+        heard John speak, and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. And we know how it is
+        written in the Gospel of Matthew: Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren,
+        Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were
+        fishers. And He saith unto them: Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they
+        straightway left their nets and followed Him.
+
+
+        From that time, therefore, was it that they clave unto Him continuously. Then Jesus turned,
+        and saw them following, and saith unto them: What seek ye? They said unto Him: Rabbi, which
+        is to say, being interpreted, Master, where dwellest Thou? So they follow Him now, not as to
+        cleave unto Him for ever, but as to know where He dwelt, and to obey that which is written:
+        If thou see a man of understanding, go to him early in the morning, and let thy foot wear the
+        steps of his doors. He saith unto them: Come and see. They came and saw where He dwelt, and
+        abode with Him that day. O what a blessed day! O what a blessed night! for it was about the
+        tenth hour. Who shall tell what they heard from the Lord? O let us also build an house in
+        our hearts, where He may come, and teach us, and talk with us!
+    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/vigil-of-st-matthew.yml

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+# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for the Vigil of St. Matthew (Sep 20) —
+# pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/09-20.txt is a different feast
+# (Ss. Eustace and Companions) occupying this date in the general
+# calendar; the vigil's own content is at the suffixed sibling file (see
+# memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle").
+# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-20o.txt, English/Sancti/09-20o.txt.
+#
+# Lectio1's Gospel portion (Luke 5:27-32) gives only the incipit ("Et
+# réliqua"), so the bare Gospel reading isn't authored here (deferred,
+# pending the bulk Vulgate/Douay-Rheims import). Lectio1's own homily
+# portion + Lectio2-3 is one continuous excerpt from St. Ambrose's
+# commentary, combined into a single reading. The English source only
+# translates Lectio1's homily portion — Lectio2-3's English below is
+# this project's own translation, not the reference engine's, so the
+# whole reading is marked draft for English per this project's "prefer
+# text over missing" policy. No responsory given in the source.
+id: vigil-of-st-matthew
+readings:
+  - nocturn: 2
+    isGospel: false
+    source: "St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Commentary on Luke, Book 5"
+    text:
+      la: >-
+        Mystica est hæc vocátio publicani, quem sequi jubet, non corporis gressu, sed mentis
+        afféctu. Itaque ille, prius avara de mercédibus, dura de labóribus periculisque nautárum
+        emoluménta convértens, verbo vocatus, propria derelinquit, qui rapiebat aliena; ac, vile
+        illud sedile destítuens, toto post Dóminum vestigio mentis incedit. Convivii quoque magni
+        éxhibet apparátum; qui enim domicílio Christum récipit interno, maximis delectatiónibus
+        exuberántium páscitur voluptátum.
+
+
+        Itaque Dominus libenter ingreditur, et in ejus qui crediderit, recumbit affectu. Sed rursus
+        accenditur invidia perfidorum, et futuræ pœnæ species præfiguratur. Epulantibus enim
+        fidelibus, et in illo cœlorum recumbentibus regno, perfidia jejuna torquebitur. Simul
+        ostenditur quantum intersit inter æmulos Legis et gratiæ, quod illi qui legem sequuntur,
+        jejunæ mentis famem patiantur æternam: qui vero verbum in interioribus animæ receperunt,
+        alimenti cœlestis et fontis ubertate recreati esurire et sitire non possunt.
+
+
+        Et ideo qui animo jejunabant, murmurabant dicentes: Quare cum publicanis et peccatoribus
+        manducat et bibit? Serpentina vox ista est. Denique hanc primam vocem serpens emisit, dicens
+        Evæ: Quid utique dixit Deus: Nolite manducare ex omni ligno? Ergo patris sui venena
+        diffundunt, qui dicunt: Quid utique cum publicanis et peccatoribus manducat et bibit? Unde
+        Dominus cum peccatoribus manducando, etiam cum gentilibus non prohibet nos inire convivium,
+        dicens: Non egent qui sani sunt, medico, sed qui male habent.
+      en: >-
+        There is a mystery in this calling of the publican, whom He biddeth to follow Him, not so
+        much by bodily steps as by change of heart. Hitherto Levi had been making greedy gains from
+        merchandise, cruel riches at the cost of sailors' toils and dangers; but now, at the call of
+        a word, he, who had been plundering other men's goods, leaveth his own. He leaveth that base
+        station, and followeth hard after the Lord with all his heart. And Levi made Him a great
+        feast in his own house. He that welcometh Christ into his home, feasteth upon the excellency
+        of all pleasures.
+
+
+        And so the Lord gladly enters in, and reclines in the affection of him who has believed. But
+        again the envy of the faithless is kindled, and the likeness of a punishment to come is
+        prefigured. For while the faithful feast and recline in that kingdom of the heavens,
+        unbelief, famished, will be tormented. At the same time it is shown how great a difference
+        there is between the rivals of the Law and of grace: that those who follow the Law suffer an
+        eternal hunger of a fasting mind, while those who have received the Word in the inward parts
+        of the soul, refreshed by the abundance of heavenly food and of the fountain, cannot hunger
+        or thirst.
+
+
+        And so those who fasted in spirit murmured, saying: Why does he eat and drink with publicans
+        and sinners? This is a serpent's voice. For indeed the serpent uttered this very first word,
+        saying to Eve: Why indeed did God say, Do not eat of every tree? So they who say, Why indeed
+        does he eat and drink with publicans and sinners, spread abroad the poison of their father.
+        Whence the Lord, by eating with sinners, does not forbid us to enter also into feasting with
+        the Gentiles, saying: They that are well have no need of a physician, but they that are
+        sick.
+    status: { la: verified, en: draft }