# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), Vespers
# `votive=C2b` live query, 2026-08 -- the classic "Deus tuórum mílitum"
# Common-of-a-Martyr Vespers hymn, previously entirely missing from this
# app (no `vespers-hymn-common-of-a-martyr-bishop.yml`/`-common-of-a-
# martyr.yml` at all), so any Vespers/Compline landing on an unauthored
# Common-of-a-Martyr(-Bishop) saint fell all the way through to the plain
# ferial default -- the gap this app's user flagged live, on St.
# Zephyrinus's own Aug 26/25 evening (see calendar/vespers.ts's First-
# Vespers-anticipation comments for that saint's own history). Bypasses
# calendar concurrence entirely, same reasoning as Common-of-a-Confessor-
# Not-Bishop's own Vespers file (see its header): no real Common-of-a-
# Martyr(-Bishop) saint's own Second Vespers is ever un-outranked on this
# app's merged calendar -- every real candidate either has proper content
# of his own (St. Lawrence, St. Stephen) or never reaches the rank needed
# to keep his own evening (St. Zephyrinus, St. Callistus both Simplex/
# plain Duplex). Byte-identical to `votive=C2`/`C2a` (plain Common of a
# Martyr), confirming TODO.md's earlier Matins-psalmody finding
# (`common-of-a-martyr-bishop` and `common-of-a-martyr` share real
# content) extends to this bundle too -- authored as two separate files
# rather than an alias redirect only because this bundle's lookup
# (`resolveOfficeBundle`) has no alias mechanism the way the Matins-
# psalmody category tier does.
id: vespers-hymn-common-of-a-martyr-bishop
text:
  la: >-
    Deus tuórum mílitum

    Sors, et córona, prǽmium,

    Laudes canéntes Mártyris

    Absólve nexu críminis.


    Hic nempe mundi gáudia,

    Et blandiménta nóxia

    Cadúca rite députans,

    Pervénit ad cæléstia.


    Pœnas cucúrrit fórtiter,

    Et sústulit viríliter,

    Pro te effúndens sánguinem,

    Ætérna dona póssidet.


    Ob hoc precátu súpplici

    Te póscimus, piíssime;

    In hoc triúmpho Mártyris

    Dimítte noxam sérvulis.


    Laus et perénnis glória

    Deo Patri, et Fílio,

    Sancto simul Paráclito,

    In sempitérna sǽcula. Amen.
  en: >-
    O God, of those that fought thy fight,

    Portion, and prize, and crown of light,

    Break every bond of sin and shame

    As now we praise thy martyr's name.


    He recked not of the world's allure,

    But sin and pomp of sin forswore:

    Knew all their gall, and passed them by,

    And reached the throne prepared on high.


    Bravely the course of pain he ran,

    And bare his torments as a man:

    For love of thee his blood outpoured,

    And thus obtained the great reward.


    With humble voice and suppliant word

    We pray thee therefore, holy Lord,

    While we thy martyr's feast-day keep,

    Forgive thy loved and erring sheep.


    Glory and praise for aye be done

    To God the Father, and the Son,

    And Holy Ghost, who reign on high,

    One God, to all eternity. Amen.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified