vu/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/our-lady-of-the-snows.yml

# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for Our Lady of the Snows (Dedication of
# St. Mary Major), Aug 5 — Duplex Majus. `Sancti/08-05.txt`'s untagged
# [Rank] block. SanctiM/08-05.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/08-05`)
# with no Nocturn 2/3 override (just reslicing Lectio4-6 into a 12-lesson
# Monastic structure via `@Sancti/08-05:LectioN` cross-references), so
# this feast's own content is sourced from the Tridentine track directly.
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-05.txt, English/Sancti/08-05.txt.
#
# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading — the miraculous-
# snowfall founding legend of the basilica of St. Mary Major, one
# continuous narrative, no genuine source break. (The source's own
# `[Lectio94]` is a shorter, alternate simplex-rank retelling of the
# same story, not additional content — not authored separately.)
# Nocturn 3: her own file has no Lectio7-9 at all (her `[Rule]` is
# `ex C11`), so — like the day's collect/antiphon — this defers to the
# Common of Feasts of the BVM's own Nocturn 3 (Commune/C11.txt): a bare
# Gospel incipit (Luke 11:27-28, "Et réliqua") followed by the Venerable
# Bede's homily. Per the established convention of not transcribing
# bare incipits, only the homily was originally authored here (not
# marked isGospel).
# Same shared C11 content also used by
# presentation-of-the-bvm.yml's own Nocturn 3 — the Matins mechanism has
# no cross-id lookup for nocturn-readings the way collect/antiphon do
# via `propers`, so it's duplicated rather than referenced.
#
# Update (2026-09-05): the Gospel pericope itself is now authored too
# (isGospel: true, immediately before Bede's homily). Though Commune/
# C11.txt's own Nocturn 3 Lectio7 cuts it off at "Et réliqua", the full
# two-verse pericope (Luke 11:27-28) is short enough that C11.txt's own
# Missa [Evangelium] (same file) gives it complete — sourced from there,
# not guessed at or reconstructed from the homily's mid-paragraph
# quotations alone.
id: our-lady-of-the-snows
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Liberio summo Pontifice, Joánnes patricius Romanus et uxor pari nobilitate, cum
        liberos non suscepíssent, quos bonórum herédes relínquerent, suam hereditátem
        sanctíssimæ Virgini Dei Matri vovérunt, ab ea summis precibus assidue peténtes, ut in
        quod pium opus eam pecúniam potíssimum erogari vellet aliquo modo significaret.
        Quorum preces et vota, ex animo facta, beáta Virgo Maria, benígne áudiens, miraculo
        comprobávit.


        Nonis ígitur Augusti, quo témpore in Urbi maximi calóres esse solent, noctu nix
        partem collis Exquilini contéxit. Qua nocte Dei Mater separatim Joánnem et conjugem
        in somnis admonuit ut quem locum nive conspersum vidérent, in eo ecclésiam
        ædificarent, quæ Maríæ vírginis nómine dedicarétur; se enim ita velle ab ipsis
        herédem institui. Quod Joánnes ad Libérium Pontificem détulit, qui idem per sómnium
        sibi contigisse affirmávit.


        Quare solemni sacerdotum et pópuli supplicatióne ad collem venit nive coopertum, et
        in eo locum ecclésiæ designávit, quæ Joánnis et uxoris pecúnia exstructa est, póstea
        a Xysto tertio restituta. Variis nomínibus primum est appellata, basilica Liberii,
        sancta Maria ad Præsepe; sed, cum multæ jam essent in Urbe ecclésiæ sub nómine sanctæ
        Maríæ Vírginis, ut quæ basilica novitate miraculi ac dignitate ceteris ejusdem
        nóminis basilicis præstaret, vocabuli étiam excelléntia significarétur, ecclésia
        sanctæ Maríæ majoris dicta est. Cujus dedicatiónis memória ex nive, quæ hac die
        mirabíliter cécidit, anniversaria celebritate cólitur.
      en: >-
        In the time of Pope Liberius, there lived at Rome a certain nobleman named John and a
        noble lady his wife, who had no children to whom to leave their substance. Then they
        vowed that they would make the most holy Virgin Mother of God their heiress, and
        earnestly besought her in some way to make known to them upon what godly work she
        would that the money should be spent. The Blessed Virgin Mary graciously listened to
        their prayers and heart-felt earnestness, and by a miracle assured them of her will.


        On the 5th day of August, which is that time when the heat of summer waxeth greatest
        in Rome, a part of the Esquiline Hill was covered by night with snow. And on this
        same night the Mother of God appeared in a dream to John and his wife separately, and
        told them that on that spot, which in the morning they should see clad with snow,
        they should build a Church, to be dedicated in the name of the Virgin Mary, for that
        this was the way in which she chose that they should make her their heiress. John
        went and told it to Pope Liberius, who declared that he also had been visited by a
        like dream.


        Therefore he came in a solemn procession of Priests and people to the snow-clad hill,
        and traced upon that spot the plan of a Church which was built with the money of John
        and his wife. It was afterwards rebuilt by Sixtus III. At the beginning it was called
        by diverse names, sometimes the Liberian Basilica, sometimes the Church of St.
        Mary-at-the-Manger. Howbeit, since there are in Rome many Churches called after the
        Holy Virgin Mary, and this Church doth excel them all, both in honour, and because of
        the strange sign wherewith it was dedicated, it hath come to be called the Church of
        St. Mary, the Greater. The memory of the dedication thereof is kept every year by a
        Feast-day that taketh name from the wonderful fall of snow which on this day took
        place.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

  - nocturn: 3
    isGospel: true
    citation: { la: "Luc 11:27-28", en: "Luke 11:27-28" }
    text:
      la: >-
        In illo témpore: Loquénte Jesu ad turbas, extóllens vocem quædam múlier de turba, dixit
        illi: Beátus venter, qui te portávit, et úbera, quæ suxísti. At ille dixit: Quinímmo
        beáti, qui áudiunt verbum Dei, et custódiunt illud.
      en: >-
        At that time, as Jesus was speaking to the multitudes, a certain woman from the crowd
        lifted up her voice and said to Him, "Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts
        that nursed You." But He said, "Rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and
        keep it."
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

  - nocturn: 3
    isGospel: false
    source: "The Venerable Bede, Commentary on Luke, Book IV, ch. 49 (on Luke 11:27-28)"
    text:
      la: >-
        Magnæ devotiónis et fídei hæc múlier osténditur, quæ, scribis et pharisǽis Dóminum
        tentántibus simul et blasphemántibus, tanta ejus incarnatiónem præ ómnibus
        sinceritáte cognóscit, tanta fidúcia confitétur, ut et præséntium prócerum
        calúmniam, et futurórum confúndat hæreticórum perfídiam. Nam, sicut tunc Judǽi,
        Sancti Spíritus ópera blasphemándo, verum consubstantialémque Patri Dei Fílium
        negábant; sic hærétici póstea, negándo Maríam semper Vírginem, Sancti Spíritus
        operánte virtúte, nascitúro cum humánis membris Unigénito Dei, carnis suæ matériam
        ministrásse, verum consubstantialémque matri Fílium hóminis fatéri non debére
        dixérunt.


        Si caro Verbi Dei secúndum carnem nascéntis a carne Vírginis matris pronuntiátur
        extránea, sine causa venter qui eam portásset, úbera quæ lactássent, beatificántur.
        Dicit autem Apóstolus: Quia misit Deus Fílium suum, factum ex mulíere, factum sub
        lege. Neque audiéndi sunt, qui legéndum putant: Natum ex mulíere, factum sub lege,
        sed Factum ex mulíere; quia concéptus ex útero virgináli, carnem non de níhilo, non
        aliúnde, sed matérna traxit ex carne. Alióquin nec vere Fílius hóminis dicerétur,
        qui oríginem non habéret ex hómine. Et nos ígitur, his contra Eutychen dictis,
        extollámus vocem cum Ecclésia cathólica, cujus hæc múlier typum gessit, extollámus
        et mentem de médio turbárum, dicamúsque Salvatóri: Beátus venter qui te portávit, et
        úbera quæ suxísti. Vere enim beáta parens, quæ, sicut quidam ait, Eníxa est puérpera
        Regem, qui cælum terrámque tenet per sǽcula.


        Quinímmo beáti qui áudiunt verbum Dei et custódiunt. Pulchre Salvátor attestatióni
        mulíeris ánnuit, non eam tantúmmodo quæ Verbum Dei corporáliter generáre merúerat,
        sed et omnes qui idem Verbum spiritáliter audítu fídei concípere, et boni óperis
        custódia vel in suo vel in proximórum corde párere et quasi álere studúerint,
        asséverans esse beátos; quia, et éadem Dei Génetrix, et inde quidem beáta quia Verbi
        incarnándi minístra facta est temporális, sed inde multo beátior quia ejúsdem semper
        amándi custos manébat ætérna.
      en: >-
        It is plain that this was a woman of great earnestness and faith. The Scribes and
        Pharisees were at once tempting and blaspheming the Lord, but this woman so clearly
        grasped His Incarnation, and so bravely confessed the same, that she confounded both
        the lies of the great men who were present, and the faithlessness of the heretics who
        were yet to come. Even as the Jews then, blaspheming the works of the Holy Ghost,
        denied the very Son of God Who is of one substance with the Father, so afterwards did
        the heretics, by denying that Mary always a Virgin did, under the operation of the
        Holy Ghost, supply flesh to the Only begotten One of God, when He was about being
        born in an human Body, even so, I say, did the heretics deny that the Son of Man
        should be called a true Son, Who is of one substance with His Mother.


        If we shall say that the Flesh, Wherewith the Son of God was born in the flesh, was
        something outside of the flesh of the Virgin His Mother, without reason should we
        bless the womb that bore Him, and the paps which He hath sucked. But the Apostle
        saith: "God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law", and they are
        not to be listened to who read this passage: "Born of a woman, made under the law."
        He was made of a woman, for He was conceived in a virgin's womb, and took His Flesh,
        not from nothing, not from elsewhere, but from the flesh of His Mother. Otherwise,
        and if He had not been sprung of a woman, He could not with truth be called the Son
        of man. Let us therefore, denying the doctrine of Eutyches, lift up our voice, along
        with the Universal Church, whereof that woman was a figure, let us lift up our heart
        as well as our voice from the company, and say unto the Saviour: Blessed is the womb
        that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. Blessed Mother, of whom one hath
        said thou art His Mother, Who reigns over earth and over heaven for ever.


        Yea, rather, blessed are they that hear the Word of God and keep it. How nobly doth
        the Saviour say "Yea" to the woman's blessing, declaring also that not only is she
        blessed who was meet to give bodily birth to the Word of God, but that all they who
        spiritually conceive the same Word by the hearing of faith, and, by keeping it
        through good works, bring it forth and, as it were, carefully nurse it, in their own
        hearts, and in the hearts of their neighbours, are also blessed. Yea, and that the
        very Mother of God herself was blessed in being for a while the handmaid of the Word
        of God made Flesh, but that she was much more blessed in this, that through her love
        she keepeth Him for ever.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }