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Add September Matins readings for SanctiM-track saints
All 9 of September's SanctiM-track saints authored -- the first full
month in this pass with nothing left unsourced. Includes the
Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel, whose SanctiM file borrows
structure from his separate May 8 Apparition file but still resolves
its actual readings back to this day's own Tridentine content.
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Jerome, Priest, Confessor, Doctor
# (Sep 30) — SanctiM/09-30.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/09-30`)
# with no Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own vita 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/09-30.txt, English/Sancti/09-30.txt.
# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no genuine
# source break. No responsory given in the source.
id: st-jerome
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Hieronymus, Eusebii fílius, Stridone in Dalmatia, Constantio imperatóre, natus, Romæ
adoléscens est baptizatus, et in liberálibus disciplinis a Donato et aliis viris
doctíssimis eruditus. Tum discéndi studio Gálliam peragrávit; ubi pios aliquot et in
divinis litteris eruditos viros coluit, multosque sacros libros sua manu descripsit.
Mox se in Græciam cónferens, philosophía et eloquéntia instructus, summórum
theologórum consuetúdine flóruit. In primis vero Gregório Nazianzeno Constantinopoli
operam dedit; quo doctore se sacras litteras didicisse profitétur. Tum religiónis
causa visit Christi Dómini incunábula, totamque lustrávit Palæstinam; quam
peregrinatiónem, adhíbitis Hebræórum eruditíssimis, ad sacræ Scripturæ intelligéntiam
sibi multum profuísse testátur.
Deínde secessit in vastam Syriæ solitúdinem; ubi quadriennium in lectióne divinórum
librórum cælestísque beatitúdinis contemplatióne consumpsit, assidua se abstinéntia,
vi lacrimárum et corporis afflictatióne discrucians. Présbyter a Paulino episcopo
Antiochíæ factus, Romam de controversiis quorúmdam episcopórum cum Paulino et
Epiphanio ad Dámasum Pontificem profectus, ejus ecclesiásticis epistolis scribéndis
adjútor fuit. Verum, cum prístinæ solitúdinis desidério tenerétur, in Palæstinam
reversus, Bethlehem ad Christi Dómini præsepe, in monasterio quod a Paula Romana
exstructum erat, cælestem quamdam vitæ ratiónem instituit; et, quamquam varie morbis
doloribúsque tentarétur, tamen corporis incommoda piis labóribus et perpetua
lectióne ac scriptióne superabat.
Tamquam ad oraculum, ex ómnibus orbis terræ partibus, ad ipsum divinæ Scripturæ
quæstiónes explicandæ referebántur. Illum Dámasus Pontifex, illum sanctus Augustinus
de locis Scripturæ difficillimis sæpe consuluit, propter ejus singularem doctrinam, et
linguæ non solum Latinæ et Græcæ, sed Hebráicæ étiam et Chaldáicæ, intelligéntiam; et
quod omnes pene scriptores, ejusdem Augustíni testimonio, légerat. Hæreticos
acerrimis scriptis exagitávit; piórum et catholicórum patrocinium semper suscépit.
Vetus Testaméntum ex Hebræo convértit; novum, jussu Dámasi, Græcæ fidei réddidit,
magna étiam ex parte explicávit. Multa præterea Latine réddidit scripta doctórum
virórum, et ipse aliis proprii ingenii monuméntis christianam disciplínam
illustrávit. Qui, ad summam senectútem perveniens, sanctitáte et doctrina illustris,
Honorio imperatóre, migrávit in cælum. Cujus corpus, ad Bethlehem sepúltum, póstea
Romam in basilicam sanctæ Maríæ ad Præsepe translátum est.
en: >-
Jerome was the son of one Eusebius, and was born at Sorigni, in Dalmatia, in the reign
of the Emperor Constantius. He was baptised at Rome when a lad, and studied there,
under the instruction of Donatus and other very learned personages. He travelled in
Gaul for the sake of improving his mind, and there sought the friendship of diverse
godly men learned in the Scriptures, and made with his own hand many copies of the holy
books. He afterwards betook himself to Greece, where he attained eminence as a
philosopher and orator, in the following of the most famous theologians. At
Constantinople, in especial, he sat at the feet of Gregory of Nazianzus, from whom he
professeth himself to have learnt his theology. Then, for godliness' sake, he went to
see the home of the Lord Christ, and so throughout all Palestine. He witnesseth that
this pilgrimage, wherein he got the help of the most learned of the Jews for the
understanding of the Holy Scriptures, did him much good.
He withdrew himself into the wild deserts of Syria, where he passed four years in
studying the Holy Scriptures and in considering the blessedness of heaven, afflicting
his body by alway denying himself, by bitter tears, and by chastisement of the flesh. He
was ordained Priest by Paulinus, Patriarch of Antioch. He went to Rome on account of the
quarrelling of certain Bishops with Paulinus and Epiphanius, and there helped Pope
Damasus in the writing of his letters upon Church affairs. But the longing for his old
solitude came upon him, and he went back to Palestine, where, in the monastery at
Bethlehem, built beside the cradle of the Lord Christ by the Lady Paula of Rome, he set
himself to enter on earth upon the life of heaven, serving God in reading and writing
without ceasing, regardless of the sufferings of a body tormented by diverse diseases
and pains.
Hard questions upon the interpretation of the Holy Scripture were sent to him from all
parts of the earth, as to an oracle. He was oftentimes consulted by Pope Damasus and by
the holy Augustine upon the meaning of the most obscure passages of the Scripture,
because of his extraordinary learning, and that he knew not the Latin and Greek tongues
only, but also the Hebrew and Chaldee, and, as the same Augustine testifieth, had read
nearly all writers. He attacked heretics with keen publications, and ever undertook the
defence of the godly and Catholic. He translated the Old Testament from Hebrew into
Latin, and, at the command of Damasus, reformed, according to the original Greek, the
existing version of the New. Upon great part of the Scriptures he wrote commentaries.
He translated likewise into Latin the works of many learned men, and himself
contributed to the Christian life many monuments of his own wit. He lived to an
extreme old age, and passed away to heaven, famous for learning and holiness, in the
reign of the Emperor Honorius. His body was buried at Bethlehem, but hath since been
brought to Rome, where it lieth in the Church of St. Mary-at-the-Manger.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }