# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), Lauds
# live query, St. Catherine of Alexandria's own day (2026-11-25). The
# Benedictus antiphon -- same text as St. Dorothea's/St. Apollonia's own
# (all draw on the same Common of a Virgin Martyr text, confirmed
# independently rather than assumed).
id: st-catherine-antiphon
text:
  la: "Símile est regnum cælórum hómini negotiatóri quærénti bonas margarítas: invénta una pretiósa, dedit ómnia sua, et comparávit eam."
  en: "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchantman seeking goodly pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it."
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified