# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Paul the First Hermit (vu's calendar:
# Jan 19, displaced from the general calendar's Jan 15 to make room for
# St. Maurus there per Monastic practice — see memory
# vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle"). Source is therefore
# off-date: web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-15.txt and
# English/Sancti/01-15.txt (NOT 01-19.txt, which is a different saint in
# the general calendar — Ss. Marius/Martha/Audifax/Abachum, sourced
# separately).
#
# Lectio4-6 is one continuous narrative (the encounter with St. Anthony),
# no internal source break, so combined into a single reading per the
# project's recombine rule. Lectio94 (the reduced-office alternate
# summary) is skipped, same as Marcellus.
#
# Not authored here: Nocturn 3. The source file's own Lectio7-9 are
# themselves a cross-reference (`@Sancti/02-24:Lectio7` etc.) to St.
# Matthias's Gospel+homily (Matt 11:25-30 + St. Augustine, Sermon 10 on
# the Words of the Lord) — genuinely part of Paul's day, but that source
# file gives only the Gospel incipit ("Et réliqua"), no full pericope
# text and no responsory of its own to transcribe from. Deferred rather
# than fabricated; the bulk Vulgate/Douay-Rheims import (see TODO.md)
# would resolve the Gospel side of this gap directly.
id: st-paul-the-hermit
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Paulus, eremitárum auctor et magister, apud inferiórem Thebáidem natus, cum quindecim esset
        annórum, orbátus paréntibus est. Qui postea declinandæ causa persecutiónis Decii et
        Valeriáni, et Deo liberius inserviéndi, in eremi spelúncam se cóntulit: ubi, palma ei
        victum et vestítum præbente, vixit ad centésimum et décimum tertium annum, quo témpore ab
        Antonio nonagenario Dei admónitu invísitur. Quibus inter se, cum ántea non nossent, proprio
        nómine consalutántibus, et multa de regno Dei colloquéntibus, corvus, qui ántea semper
        Paulo dimidiátum panem attulerat, integrum détulit.


        Post corvi discessum, Eja, inquit Paulus, Dóminus nobis prandium misit, vere pius, vere
        miséricors. Sexagínta jam anni sunt, cum accipio quotídie dimidii panis fragméntum, nunc ad
        advéntum tuum milítibus suis Christus duplicávit annonam. Quare cum gratiárum actióne ad
        fontem capiéntes cibum, ubi tantisper recreáti sunt, íterum gratiis de more Deo actis,
        noctem in divinis laudibus consumpsérunt. Dilúculo Paulus de morte, quæ sibi instaret,
        ádmonens Antónium, hortátur, ut pallium, quod ab Athanasio acceperat, ad involvéndum suum
        corpus afferret. Quo ex itinere rédiens ille, vidit inter Angelórum choros, inter
        Prophetárum et Apostolórum cœtus Pauli ánimam in cælum ascendere.


        Cumque ad ejus cellam pervenísset, invénit genibus complicatis, erecta cervice, exténsisque
        in altum mánibus corpus exanime: quod pallio obvolvens, hymnosque et psalmos ex christiana
        traditióne decantans, cum sárculum, quo terram fóderet, non haberet, duo leones ex
        interiore erémo rápido cursu ad beáti senis corpus ferúntur; ut facile intelligerétur, eos,
        quo modo póterant, plorátum édere: qui certatim terram pédibus effodiéntes, fóveam, quæ
        hóminem commode cáperet, effecérunt. Qui cum abiísent, Antonius sanctum corpus in eum locum
        íntulit; et injecta humo, tumulum ex christiáno more compósuit: túnicam vero Pauli, quam in
        sportæ modum ex palmæ foliis ille sibi contexúerat, secum áuferens, eo vestítu diébus
        solemnibus Paschæ et Pentecostes, quoad vixit, usus est.
      en: >-
        Paul the first hermit, and model of all others, was a native of the lower Thebaid in Egypt.
        At the age of fifteen years he lost both his parents. In order to escape from the
        persecution of Decius and Valerian, and to serve God in quietness, he betook himself to a
        cave in the desert. Here there was a palm-tree, on the fruit of which he lived, and of
        whose leaves he made his raiment until he attained the age of 113 years. At that time
        Anthony, being now himself aged 90 years, received a command from God to go and see him.
        They met without knowing one another's names, and saluted one another, after which they
        fell straightway into a long discourse concerning the kingdom of God. Now it so happened
        that a raven had of a long time brought Paul every day half a loaf, but on this day while
        they spake together he brought a whole one.


        When the raven had flown away, Well, quoth Paul, the Lord hath sent us our dinner. Truly He
        is gracious; truly He is merciful. It is now sixty years that I have had half a loaf of
        bread every day, but now that thou art come, Christ giveth His soldiers double rations.
        Then they asked a blessing, and ate together, sitting by a spring. When they were
        refreshed, they returned thanks, as is the custom, and afterwards spent the whole night
        praising God. At break of day Paul felt the approach of death, and desired Anthony to bring
        the cloak which Athanasius had given him, to use for his winding-sheet. While Anthony was
        on his way back from this journey, he saw in a vision the soul of Paul ascending to heaven,
        surrounded by choirs of angels, and accompanied by the Prophets and Apostles.


        When Anthony reached the cell of Paul, he found the dead body of the Saint in a kneeling
        posture, with the head thrown up and the hands stretched out towards heaven. He immediately
        began to chant the psalms and hymns ordained by Christian tradition, while he wrapped the
        body in the cloak of Athanasius. He had no spade to dig a grave, but two lions came roaring
        from the desert, as though to attend the burying, and scratched a hole big enough to hold a
        man's body, with their paws, showing meanwhile such signs of grief as their nature alloweth.
        When they were gone away, Anthony put the holy body in this hole, covered it with earth,
        and arranged it like a Christian's grave. He took away for himself Paul's tunic, which he
        had woven out of the palm-leaves somewhat after the manner of basket-work, and this tunic
        Anthony was in the habit of wearing on the great days of the Passover and Pentecost as long
        as he lived.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }