# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and
# Nazarius, Martyrs (June 12) — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain
# Sancti/06-12.txt is a different, later saint (St. John of San Facundo,
# canonized 1690) who displaced these martyrs on the general calendar's
# own June 12 slot; their content survives at the suffixed sibling file
# (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle").
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-12o.txt, English/Sancti/06-12o.txt.
# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source.
# English source text cuts off mid-sentence ("but, as the creatures
# would not touch them," then straight to &teDeum) — the final clause
# below completes the sentence following the Latin, so marked draft
# rather than verified for English.
id: ss-basilides-cyrinus-nabor-and-nazarius
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor et Nazarius, Romani milites, nobiles genere, et virtute illustres,
        christiana religione suscepta, cum Christum Dei Filium, Diocletiano imperatore,
        prædicarent, ab Aurelio præfecto Urbis comprehensi, et ut diis sacra facerent admoniti, ejus
        jussa contemnentes, missi sunt in carcerem. Quibus orantibus, cum subito clarissima lux
        oborta omnium oculis, qui ibidem essent, carcerem collustrasset: illo cælesti splendore
        commotus Marcellus custodiæ præpositus, multique alii, Christo Domino crediderunt. Verum
        postea e carcere emissi, ab imperatore Maximiano, cum ejus étiam neglecto imperio, unum
        Christum Deum et Dominum in ore haberent, scorpionibus cruciati iterum conjiciuntur in
        vincula: unde septimo die educti, et ante pedes imperatoris constituti, perstiterunt in
        irrisione inanium deorum, Jesum Christum Deum constantissime confitentes. Quam ob rem
        damnati, securi feriuntur. Quorum corpora feris objecta, nec ab illis tacta a Christianis
        honorifice sepulta sunt.
      en: >-
        Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius were Roman soldiers, of illustrious birth, and
        distinguished gallantry. Having embraced the Christian Religion, and being found publishing
        that Christ was the Son of God, they were arrested by Aurelius, Prefect of Rome under the
        Emperor Diocletian. As they despised his orders to sacrifice to the gods, they were
        committed to prison. While they were at prayer there, a brilliant light broke forth before
        the eyes of all that were there, and shone in all the prison. Marcellinus the keeper of the
        prison and many others were moved by this heavenly glory to believe in the Lord Christ.
        Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius were afterwards discharged out of the prison.
        However, in the reign of the Emperor Maximian, when they set light by his commands also, and
        had ever in their mouth that there is but one Christ, one God, and one Lord, they were
        tormented with whips loaded with metal, and again cast into chains. Thence, on the seventh
        day, they were brought out, and set before the Emperor, and there still persisted in mocking
        at the foolish idols, and declaring that Jesus Christ is God. They were accordingly condemned
        to death and beheaded. Their bodies were given to wild beasts to eat, but, as the creatures
        would not touch them, they were reverently buried by the Christians.
    status: { la: verified, en: draft }