# 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: "R. 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: "R. 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 }