# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Pontian, Pope, Martyr (Nov 19, # sharing the date with St. Odo — no reading authored for that feast, # it turns out Common-only, see memory vu_matins_sanctim_saints). No # genuine SanctiM match: the correct Tridentine file is the suffixed # `Sancti/11-19o.txt` (the plain `Sancti/11-19.txt` is St. Elizabeth # of Hungary instead), and the only SanctiM file for this date, # `SanctiM/11-19M.txt`, is St. Odo's own Common-only file — a missed # pre-1955-pool candidate rather than a genuine SanctiM case (see # memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints). # web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/11-19o.txt, English/Sancti/11-19o.txt. # Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no # responsory given in the source. id: st-pontian readings: - nocturn: 2 isGospel: false text: la: >- Pontianus, Romanus, præfuit Ecclésiæ Alexandro imperatóre; qui sanctum Pontificem, propter christianæ fidei confessiónem, in Sardiniam insulam cum Hippólyto presbytero relegávit. Ubi is, pro Christi fide multis calamitátibus afflíctus, tertio Kalendas Novembris e vita migrávit. Ejus corpus, Fabiáno Pontifice, cum clero Romam delátum, in cœmeterio Callísti via Appia sepelítur. Sedit annos quatuor, menses quatuor, dies viginti quinque. Fecit ordinatiónes duas mense Decembri, quibus creávit presbyteros sex, diaconos quinque, episcopos per diversa loca sex. en: >- Pontian was a Roman, who ruled the Church in the reign of the Emperor Alexander. This Emperor banished him into the Island of Sardinia, along with the Priest Hippolytus, on account of their profession of the Christian faith. There he endured many hardships because of his belief in Christ, and departed this life upon the 19th day of November. His body was brought to Rome by Pope Fabian and his clergy, and buried in the cemetery of Kallistus, upon the Appian Way. He sat in the seat of Peter four years, four months, and twenty-five days. He held two Ordinations in the month of December, wherein he made six Priests, five Deacons, and six Bishops for diverse places. status: { la: verified, en: verified }