vu/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-peter-ad-vincula.yml

# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Peter's Chains (Jul... Aug 1) —
# SanctiM/08-01.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/08-01`) with no
# Nocturn 2/3 override, so this feast's own proper content is sourced
# from the Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see
# memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-01.txt, English/Sancti/08-01.txt.
#
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 (the legend of the two chains) combined into
# one reading, one continuous account.
# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel citation (Matt 16:13-19) was a bare
# incipit ("Et réliqua") with no full pericope text given; the full
# pericope is now authored too (isGospel: true, immediately before the
# homily) — sourced from the Missale's own Common of a Pope/Martyr
# Gospel (`web/www/missa/Latin/Commune/Coronatio.txt`'s `[Evangelium]`,
# English/Commune/Coronatio.txt), the same text used for this same
# pericope in `chair-of-st-peter-at-rome.yml` and `st-martin-i.yml`
# (2026-09-05 update). The homily portion remains St. Augustine's
# sermon, combined with Lectio8 as one continuous excerpt. No
# responsory given for either reading.
id: st-peter-ad-vincula
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Theodósio junióre imperánte, cum Eudócia ejus uxor Jerosólymam solvéndi voti causa
        venísset, ibi multis est affécta munéribus. Præ céteris insígne donum accépit férreæ
        caténæ, auro gemmísque ornátæ, quam illam esse affirmábant, qua Petrus Apóstolus ab
        Heróde vinctus fúerat. Eudócia, caténam pie veneráta, eam póstea Romam ad fíliam
        Eudóxiam misit; quæ illam Pontífici máximo détulit. Isque vicíssim illi monstrávit
        álteram caténam, qua, Neróne imperatóre, idem Apóstolus constríctus fúerat.


        Cum ígitur Póntifex Románam caténam cum ea, quæ Jerosólymis alláta fúerat, contulísset,
        factum est ut illæ inter se sic connecteréntur, ut non duæ, sed una caténa ab eódem
        artífice confécta esse viderétur. Quo miráculo tantus honor sacris illis vínculis
        habéri cœpit, ut proptérea hoc nómine sancti Petri ad víncula ecclésia, título
        Eudóxiæ, dedicáta sit in Exquíliis, ejúsque memóriæ dies festus institútus Kaléndis
        Augústi.


        Quo ex témpore honos, qui eo die profánis Gentílium celebritátibus tríbui sólitus
        erat, Petri vínculis habéri cœpit, quæ tacta ægros sanábant et dǽmones ejiciébant. Quo
        in génere, anno salútis humánæ nongentésimo sexagésimo nono áccidit, ut quidam comes,
        Ottónis imperatóris familiáris, occupátus ab immúndo spíritu, seípsum déntibus
        dilaniáret. Quare is jussu imperatóris ad Joánnem Pontíficem dúcitur, qui ut sacra
        caténa cómitis collum áttigit, erúmpens nefárius spíritus hóminem líberum reliquit; ac
        deínceps in Urbe sanctórum vinculórum relígio propagáta est.
      en: >-
        In the reign of the Emperor Theodosius the younger, his wife went to Jerusalem in
        fulfilment of a vow, and there was gifted with many presents. Among other things, they
        gave her in especial an iron chain, adorned with gold and precious stones, which they
        affirmed to be the same wherewith the Apostle Peter had been bound by King Herod.
        Eudocia, with godly reverence, afterwards sent this chain to Rome, to her daughter
        Eudoxia, who brought it to the Pope, and the Pope in return showed to her another chain
        wherewith the same Apostle had been shackled under the Emperor Nero.


        When then the Pope put together the Roman chain and that which had been brought from
        Jerusalem, it came to pass that they got so entangled the one with the other that they
        seemed no longer two but one chain. From this wonder these holy fetters began to receive
        such honour, that Eudoxia's Church of St. Peter on the Esquiline Mount was dedicated
        under the name of St. Peter in Chains, and a Feast-Day instituted upon the first day of
        August in memory of it.


        From that time forth the honour which before had used to be paid to the profane
        festivity of the Gentiles began to be turned to the Chains of Peter, whose very touch
        healed the sick, and drove out devils. Among other such cases there befell in the year of
        man's Redemption 969, that of a certain Count, a servant of the Emperor Otho, who was
        possessed by an unclean spirit, and tore himself with his own teeth. This man the Emperor
        ordered to be taken to Pope John, and as soon as he had touched the Count's neck with the
        hallowed chains, the foul spirit came out of him, and left him free. And thenceforward the
        reverence for these holy chains greatly increased in the City.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

  - nocturn: 3
    isGospel: true
    citation: { la: "Matt 16:13-19", en: "Matt 16:13-19" }
    text:
      la: >-
        In illo témpore: Venit Jesus in partes Cæsaréæ Philíppi, et interrogábat discípulos suos,
        dicens: Quem dicunt hómines esse Fílium hóminis? At illi dixérunt: Alii Joánnem Baptístam,
        alii autem Elíam, álii vero Jeremíam, aut unum ex prophétis. Dicit illis Jesus: Vos autem
        quem me esse dícitis? Respóndens Simon Petrus, dixit: Tu es Christus, Fílius Dei vivi.
        Respóndens autem Jesus, dixit ei: Beátus es, Simon Bar Jona: quia caro et sanguis non
        revelávit tibi, sed Pater meus, qui in cœlis est. Et ego dico tibi, quia tu es Petrus, et
        super hanc petram ædificábo Ecclésiam meam, et portæ ínferi non prævalébunt advérsus eam.
        Et tibi dabo claves regni cœlórum. Et quodcúmque ligáveris super terram, erit ligátum et
        in cœlis: et quodcúmque sólveris super terram, erit solútum et in cœlis.
      en: >-
        At that time, Jesus came into the quarters of Cæsarea Philippi, and He asked His
        disciples, saying, "Whom do men say that the Son of Man is?" But they said, "Some John
        the Baptist, and other some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the prophets." Jesus
        saith to them, "But whom do you say that I am?" Simon Peter answered and said, "Thou art
        Christ, the Son of the living God." And Jesus answering, said to him, "Blessed art thou,
        Simon Bar-Jona, because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but My Father Who
        is in heaven. And I say to thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My
        Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the
        keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be
        bound also in heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also
        in heaven."
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

  - nocturn: 3
    isGospel: false
    source: "St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Sermon 29 on the Saints (on Matt 16:13-19)"
    text:
      la: >-
        Solus Petrus inter Apóstolos méruit audíre: Amen dico tibi, quia tu es Petrus, et super
        hanc petram ædificábo Ecclésiam meam; dignus certe, qui ædificándis in domo Dei
        pópulis lapis esset ad fundaméntum, colúmna ad sustentáculum, clavis ad regnum. De hoc
        ait sermo divínus: Et ponébant, inquit, infírmos suos, ut umbra saltem transeúntis
        Petri obumbráret eos. Si tunc opem ferre póterat umbra córporis, quanto magis nunc
        plenitúdo virtútis? si tunc supplicántibus próderat aura quædam pertranseúntis, quanto
        magis grátia nunc permanéntis? Mérito per omnes Christi ecclésias auro pretiósius
        habétur ferrum illud pœnálium vinculórum.


        Si tam medicábilis fuit obumbrátio visitántis, quanto magis caténa vinciéntis? Si
        inánis quædam spécies vácuæ imáginis habére pótuit in se vim salútis, quanto plus de
        córpore meruérunt attráhere salubritátis, férreo póndere sacris impréssa membris,
        víncula passiónis? Si ad præsídia supplicántium tam potens fuit ante martýrium, quanto
        magis éfficax post triúmphum? Felíces illi nexus, qui, de mánicis et compédibus in
        corónam mutándi, Apóstolum contingéntes, Mártyrem reddidérunt! Felícia víncula, quæ
        reum suum usque ad Christi crucem, non tam condemnatúra quam consecratúra, misérunt!
      en: >-
        Peter was the only one of the Apostles who was worthy to hear the words: Amen, I say
        unto thee that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My Church. Worthy indeed
        must he be, who, when the nations are to be built up into a Temple of God, is chosen as
        the ground-stone whereon the building is to stand, the pillar whereby it is to be held
        up, and the key wherethrough entrance is to be made into the kingdom. Concerning him the
        Word of God saith: That they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on
        beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some
        of them. If the shadow of his body then could give help, how much more shall the fulness
        of his strength give help now. If the very air, as he passed by, was then profitable to
        such as besought him, how much more shall his favour profit where now he abideth. It is
        with reason that, throughout all the Churches of Christ, the iron chains wherewith he was
        afflicted are reckoned more precious than gold.


        If his shadow as a visitor was so healthful, what is his chain now that he bindeth and
        looseth. If his empty image in the air had healing power, how much power must have been
        contracted from his body by those chains, whose iron weight sank into his holy limbs
        during his suffering. If, before he testified, he was so mighty to aid them that called
        upon him, how much mightier is he now since his victory. Blessed were the links, doomed
        to be changed from fetters and shackles, into a crown, which by touching the Apostle,
        made him a Martyr. Blessed were the chains, whose prisoner left them for the Cross of
        Christ, and which brought him thither, not as the instruments of condemnation, but of
        sanctification.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }