# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Prisca, Virgin and Martyr (Jan 18, # sharing the date with the Chair of St. Peter at Rome — see # chair-of-st-peter-at-rome.yml). No SanctiM/01-18r*.txt at all (only # the plain SanctiM/01-18.txt exists, and that one bases on Sancti/01-18, # i.e. the Chair of St. Peter, not Prisca) — same "the shared plain # file isn't necessarily yours" wrinkle as the pre-1955 pass (memory # vu-matins-pre1955-saints); Prisca is in fact pre-1955-but-post-1617 # too, just missed in that earlier pass's date-collision handling. # web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-18r.txt, English/Sancti/01-18r.txt. # Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no # responsory given in the source. id: st-prisca readings: - nocturn: 2 isGospel: false text: la: >- Prisca, nobilis virgo Romana, trédecim annos nata, Cláudio imperatóre, christianæ fidei accusata, ejusdem jussu ducta ad Apóllinis templum, ut idolis immolaret, cum rem detestarétur, cólaphis cæsa, in carcerem traditur: atque inde emissa, cum in fidei constántia perseveraret, affecta verbéribus, ferventíque ádipe delibuta, rursus in carcerem includitur. Post triduum in amphitheatrum producta, leoni objícitur; qui suæ feritátis oblítus, humíliter se ad ejus pedes abjecit. Quæ póstea in ergastulo triduum inedia afflicta, in equuleo suspénditur, et ungulis férreis excarnificáta in rogum injícitur, unde étiam mirabíliter evasit incólumis. Dénique extra Urbem cápite abscisso, virginitátis palmam martyrii coróna cumulávit. Cujus corpus via Ostiénsi, décimo ab Urbe milliário, a Christiánis décimo quinto Kalendas Februarii sepelítur. en: >- Prisca was a noble Roman maiden, who at thirteen years of age was accused of Christianity before the Emperor Claudius. By his command she was taken to the temple of Apollo to sacrifice there, and when she refused, was buffeted and sent to prison. She was taken out from thence again, but as she still held steadfastly to the faith, they flogged her, poured boiling tallow upon her, and sent her back a second time. She was at last thrown to a lion in the amphitheatre, but it quietly lay down at her feet. She was starved for three days in a slaves' prison house, and then tortured upon the rack. Pieces of flesh were next torn from her body with iron hooks, and she was thrown on a burning pile. She marvellously still remained alive, and was accordingly beheaded outside the city. Thus she added the crown of martyrdom to the palm of virginity. The Christians buried her body at the tenth milestone on the road from Rome to Ostia on the eighteenth of January. status: { la: verified, en: verified }