# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), Vespers
# live query, 2026-06-29, the same clean date already used for lauds-capitulum-ss-peter-and-paul.yml.
id: vespers-hymn-ss-peter-and-paul
text:
  la: |
    Aurea luce et decóre róseo,
    Lux lucis, omne perfudísti sǽculum,
    Decórans cælos ínclyto martyrio,
    Hac sacra die, quæ dat reis véniam.

    Jánitor cæli, Doctor orbis páriter,
    Júdices sæcli, vera mundi lúmina:
    Per crucem alter, alter ense triúmphans,
    Vitæ senátum laureáti póssident.

    O felix Roma, quæ tantórum Príncipum
    Es purpuráta pretióso sánguine!
    Non laude tua, sed ipsórum méritis,
    Excéllis omnem mundi pulchritúdinem.

    Sit Trinitáti sempitérna glória,
    Honor, potéstas, atque jubilátio,
    In unitáte, cui manet impérium,
    Ex tunc et modo, per ætérna sǽcula. Amen.
  en: |
    The beauteous light of God's eternal majesty
    Streams down in golden rays to grace this holy day
    Which crowned the princes of the Apostles' glorious choir,
    And unto guilty mortals showed the heavenward way.

    The teacher of the world and keeper of heaven's gate,
    Rome's founders twain and rulers too of every land,
    Triumphant over death by sword and shameful cross,
    With laurel crowned are gathered to the eternal band.

    O happy Rome! who in thy martyr princes' blood,
    A twofold stream, art washed and doubly sanctified.
    All earthly beauty thou alone outshinest far,
    Empurpled by their outpoured life-blood's glorious tide.

    All honour, power, and everlasting jubilee
    To Him who all things made and governs here below,
    To God in essence One, and yet in persons Three,
    Both now and ever, while unending ages flow.
    Amen.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified