# Verified against Divinum Officium (Tridentine 1906/1910 and Divino # Afflatu 1954, `[Ant Vespera]`), Latin/Sancti/08-29.txt + # English/Sancti/08-29.txt, 2026-08-29. The reference's own `[Rule]` # ("Psalm5 Vespera=116") is a secular five-psalm-Vespers detail that # doesn't apply to vu's Monastic-1617-structured (four-psalm) Vespers — # same 109/111/112/115 baseline as common-of-a-martyr.yml's own Vespers # psalmody, with this feast's own first four proper antiphons (of its # five, `[Ant Vespera]` 1-4) substituted in; the fifth ("Da mihi in # disco...") has no corresponding slot here and is used only at Lauds' # Laudate psalm instead (see lauds-psalmody-overrides/decollation-of-st- # john-baptist.yml). id: decollation-of-st-john-baptist groups: - psalms: [109] antiphon: la: "Heródes enim ténuit * et ligávit Joánnem et pósuit in cárcerem propter Herodíadem." en: "For Herod had laid hold upon John, * and bound him, and put him in prison, for Herodias' sake." - psalms: [111] antiphon: la: "Dómine mi rex, * da mihi in disco caput Joánnis Baptístæ." en: "O Lord my King, * give me in a charger the head of John the Baptist." - psalms: [112] antiphon: la: "Puéllæ saltánti * imperávit mater: Nihil áliud petas, nisi caput Joánnis." en: "The damsel danced, * and her mother charged her, saying: See thou ask nothing, but only the head of John." - psalms: [115] antiphon: la: "Arguébat * Heródem Joánnes propter Herodíadem, quam túlerat fratri suo Philíppo uxórem." en: "John had rebuked Herod for Herodias' sake, * his brother Philip's wife, for he had taken her."