# 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 }