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Sts. Blaise, Apollonia, and Faustinus and Jovita. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Faustinus and Jovita, Martyrs (Feb 15)
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# — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/02-15*.txt at all).
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# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/02-15.txt, English/Sancti/02-15.txt. Single
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# lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no responsory
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# given in the source.
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id: ss-faustinus-and-jovita
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readings:
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- nocturn: 2
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isGospel: false
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text:
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la: >-
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Faustinus et Jovita fratres, nobiles Brixiani, in multis Italiæ urbibus, quo vincti sæviente
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Trajani persecutione ducebantur, acerbissima supplicia perpessi, fortes in christianæ fidei
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confessione perstiterunt. Nam Brixiæ diu vinculis constricti, feris étiam objecti in
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ignemque conjecti, et a bestiis et a flamma íntegri et incolumes servati sunt. Inde vero
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eisdem catenis colligati Mediolanum venerunt; ubi eorum fides tentata exquisitissimis
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tormentis, tamquam igne aurum, in cruciatibus magis enituit. Postea Romam missi, ab Evaristo
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Pontifice confirmati, ibi quoque crudelissime torquentur. Denique perducti Neápolim, in ea
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étiam urbe varie cruciati, vinctis manibus pedibusque in mare demerguntur; unde per Angelos
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mirabiliter erepti sunt. Quare multos et constantia in tormentis et miraculorum virtute ad
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Christi fidem converterunt. Postrémo reducti Brixiam initio suscepti ab Hadriano imperii,
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securi percussi, illustrem martyrii coronam acceperunt.
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en: >-
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Faustinus and Jovita were brothers, born of a noble family at Brescia. While Trajan's
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persecution was raging, they were taken about in chains from one city of Italy to another,
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and exhibited in torture in each. This cruelty utterly failed to silence their confession
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of Christ, Whom they preached by their sufferings in every place where they were shown.
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They were afterwards kept for a long time at Brescia, where they were exhibited with wild
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beasts, and tormented with fire. Being both still alive, they were brought to Milan, without
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their chains having ever been taken off. At Milan they were tortured again with every
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invention of cruelty that could be devised. Nevertheless the great power of their faith made
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them more than conquerors, shining even as gold tried in the furnace. From Milan they were
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brought to Rome, where they were confirmed by Pope Evaristus, and where they were put to the
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torture again with extreme barbarity. They were afterwards shown in public at Naples, where
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the tormentors displayed their skill in diverse ways upon them. Here they were thrown
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chained into the sea, but the angels delivered them. Their stations of suffering, by their
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God-like patience, and the wonderful power displayed in them, had now turned many souls to
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Jesus. In the end they were carried back to Brescia, and, when Hadrian took the empire, they
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were put to death by the axe at that place. The crown of martyrdom which they won is
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glorious.
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status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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