# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Praxedes, Virgin (July 21) —
# pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/07-21*.txt at all; the "r" suffix
# variant at this date is a different saint, St. Lawrence of Brindisi,
# not relevant). web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/07-21.txt,
# English/Sancti/07-21.txt. Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no
# responsory in the source.
id: st-praxedes
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Praxédes, virgo Romana, Pudentiánæ vírginis soror, Marco Antonino imperatóre Christiános
        persequente, eos facultátibus, opera, consolatióne, et omni caritátis officio prosequebátur.
        Nam alios domi occultábat; alios ad fidei constantiam hortabátur: aliórum córpora sepeliebat;
        iis, qui in carcere inclusi erant, qui in ergástulis exercebántur, nulla re déerat. Quæ, cum
        tantam Christianórum stragem jam ferre non posset, Deum precáta est, ut, si mori expediret,
        se e tantis malis eríperet. Itaque duodecimo Kalendas Augusti ad pietátis præmia vocátur in
        cælum. Cujus corpus a Pastore presbytero in patris et sororis Pudentiánæ sepúlcrum illátum
        est, quod erat in cœmeterio Priscillæ, via Salaria.
      en: >-
        This Praxedes was a maiden of Rome, and the sister of the maiden Pudentiana. When the
        Emperor Marcus Antoninus was hunting down the Christians, she followed them constantly with
        money, labour, comfort, and every helpful office of Christian charity. Some she hid in her
        house, some she exhorted to firmness in professing the faith, of some she buried the bodies.
        For them that were in prison, and them that were toiling in slavery, she supplied every need.
        At last the sight of such butchery of Christians was more than she could bear, and she
        implored God that if it were expedient for her to die, He would release her from such
        suffering. And so upon the 21st day of July she was called away to receive the reward of her
        godly conversation in heaven. Pastor the Priest laid her body in the grave of her father
        (Pudens) and her sister Pudentiana, which was in the cemetery of Priscilla, upon the Salarian
        Way.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }