# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Hyacinth, Confessor (Aug 17). # Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-17.txt, # English/Sancti/08-17.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one # continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in his own file (his `[Rule]` is `vide # C5`) -- defers to the Common's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed here. id: st-hyacinth readings: - nocturn: 2 isGospel: false text: la: >- Hyacínthus Polónus, nobílibus et christiánis paréntibus, in Camiénsi villa episcopátus Vratislaviénsis natus est. A puerítia litteris instructus, post datam jurisprudéntiæ et sacris litteris operam, inter canonicos Cracovienses adscitus, insígni morum pietáte et summa eruditióne ceteros antecelluit. Romæ in Prædicatórum ordinem ab ipso institutore sancto Dominico adscriptus, perféctam vivéndi ratiónem, quam ab ipso didicerat, usque ad finem vitæ sanctíssime retinuit. Virginitátem perpetuo coluit; modestiam, patiéntiam, humilitátem, abstinéntiam ceterasque virtútes, ut certum reliogiosæ vitæ patrimónium, adamávit. Caritáte in Deum fervens, integras sæpe noctes fundéndis précibus castigandóque córpori insúmens, nullum eidem levaméntum, nisi lapidi innixus sive humi cubans, adhibebat. Remissus in pátriam, Frisaci primum in itinere amplíssimum sui ordinis monastérium, mox Cracoviæ álterum eréxit. Inde per alias Poloniæ regni provincias aliis quatuor exædificatis, incredibile dictu est quantum verbi Dei prædicatióne et vitæ innocéntia apud omnes profécerit. Nullum diem prætermisit, quo non præclára aliqua fidei, pietátis atque innocéntiæ arguménta præstiterit. Sanctíssime viri studium erga proximórum salútem maximis Deus miraculis illustrávit. Inter quæ illud insigne, quod Vándalum fluvium prope Visogradum aquis redundántem, nullo navigio usus, trajecit, sociis quoque expanso super undas pallio traductis. Admirábili vitæ genere ad quadragínta prope annos post professiónem perducto, mortis die suis frátribus prænuntiáto, ipso assumptæ Vírginis festo, Horis canonicis persolutis, sacramentis ecclesiásticis summa cum veneratióne perceptis, iis verbis: In manus tuas, Dómine; spíritum Deo réddidit, anno salútis millesimo ducentésimo quinquagesimo septimo. Quem miraculis, étiam post óbitum, illustrem, Clemens Papa octavus in Sanctórum númerum rétulit. en: >- Hyacinth was a Pole, and was born of the noble and Christian family in the town of Camien, in the diocese of Wratislaw. He was trained up in learning from his youth, and after studying law and theology, became a Canon of Crakow, where he was eminent above his fellows by the singular godliness of his life and the depth of his learning. Being at Rome, he was received into the Order of Friars Preachers by the Founder, St. Dominic, himself, and kept in holiness to the end of his life the rule of perfect living which he had learnt from him. He remained always a virgin, and loved modesty, long-suffering, lowliness, self-restraint, and all other good graces as his heritage in the life of a Friar. In the heat of his love for God, he sometimes passed whole nights in pouring forth prayers and chastising his body, to which he never gave rest but in leaning against a stone or lying upon the ground. He was sent back to his own country, and, on the way, founded a very large house of his Order at Friesach and soon afterwards another at Crakow. In other provinces of the kingdom of Poland he founded four others, and it passeth belief what success he had with all kinds of men, by his preaching of the Word of God, and the innocency of his life. Not a day passed wherein he did not display some bright gift of faith, godliness, or innocency. The zeal of this most holy man for the salvation of his neighbors was that which God marked by His greatest miracles. Among these is famous the time when coming to the River Vistula near Wisgrade, and finding it in flood, he crossed it without a boat, drawing over also his three companions standing upon the waves upon his outspread mantle. He led a wonderful life for nearly forty years after his profession, and then foretold to his brethren the day of his death. Upon the very day of the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin, he finished the recitation of the Office of the Church, received the Sacraments with the utmost reverence, and then with the words, Into thy hands, O Lord, gave up his soul to God in the year of salvation 1257. He was illustrious for miracles even after his death, and Pope Clement VIII. numbered him among the saints. status: { la: verified, en: verified }