THE SARUM RITE Sarum Breviary Noted. Performing Edition.

Volume B. Part . Pages .

Saint Felix, Priest and Martyr. Saint Maurus, Abbot. Saint Marcellus, Pope and Martyr. Saint Sulpicius, Bishop and Confessor. Saint Prisca, Virgin and Martyr.

Edited by William Renwick.

HAMILTON ONTARIO . THE GREGORIAN INSTITUTE OF CANADA . MMXV.

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Saint Felix.

Saint Felix. (January xiv. ) At Matins. Simple Invitatory. The Lord, the King of Martyrs. []. Ps. Venite. *. Hymn. Martyr of God. [].

Three Lessons. Lesson j. N the time of the Emperors that such shall not be surrendered by IDiocletian and Maximian, an me. Therefore Anulinus the pro edict went forth throughout consul : sent him to Rome to the all the provinces : that the sacred prefect of the Praetorium. The books should be taken away from the prefect sent him to Nola after the hands of the bishops and priests. emperors : and blessed Felix was Then blessed Felix, Bishop of the city fettered in hard bondage of chains as of Tibiuca, was arrested : he was sent he lay on a bench of the ship under to Carthage to Anulinus the pro the feet of the horses for four days consul. To whom Anulinus said, and four nights neither eating bread Hast thou the unnecessary scriptures ? nor drinking water, and came fasting Felix the Bishop said, I have the to Nola. But thou, O Lord, have scriptures, however, those that thou mercy upon us. claimest are not unnecessary : know

Lesson ij. HE attorney, thus mindful of means been brought thus far to me. Tthe citizens, unbound blessed Felix the Bishop said, Consequently Felix the Bishop from the heavy just as I have already responded chains : for him to be presented. previously to various investigations : Who saith thus, If in thine own city thus yet again to thee I most certainly or in Bapud Carthage thou hadst make known my manner, because in given over the deific scriptures to be no way shall I deliver up the sacred burned : thou should have by no scriptures. The attorney said, If thou 662 Saint Felix. refuse to surrender the deific scrip Seeing that Felix the Bishop so tures : thou shalt be punished strongly remaineth in this confession : capitally. Felix the Bishop said, I am therefore according to the command prepared rather for capital punish of the Emperor I resolve to put this ment : than that the books of the very same to the sword. But thou, O Lord be delivered to sacrilege. Then Lord, have mercy upon us. the aforementioned attorney said,

Lesson iij. Lessed Felix the Bishop, raising led out by soldiers on the nineteenth B his eyes to heaven : said, O God of the Kalends of February and was I give thee thanks : because for six there beheaded : and his body was and fifty years thou hast vouchsafed placed at Nola, moreover by devout to keep my virginity in this present servants of God and sons of Mother world. And now O Lord I suffer this Church the remains of blessed Felix for thee and for thy law : and joyful I were carried to Carthage. In which bow my neck to the sacrifice. I place by the merits of blessed Felix therefore entreat that thou woudlst many miracles take place : through take my spirit from this mortal world : the goodness of the Lord our God, to because thou alone art the living God, whom be honour and glory through and abidest gloriously for ever and the endless ages of ages. Amen. But ever. This prayer completed, he was thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.

Chapter. Every high priest. []. Prayer. Grant, we beseech thee. []. and all the rest from the Common of one Martyr and Bishop.

From this day until Ash Wednesday let a Memorial of Saint Mary and of All Saints be made at Vespers and at Lauds on Feasts of iij. Lessons and on ferias which are made without Rulers of the Choir .

663 Saint Maurus.

Saint Maurus. (January xv. ) Let Vespers be of Saint Maurus, Abbot : and nothing of Saint Felix.

At j. Vespers. Ferial Antiphons and Psalms. The Chapter The righteous man. and all the following from the Common of one Confessor and Abbot. [1055]. with this Prayer. God, who didst grant to thy us an entrance into the kingdom of Oblessed deacon and abbot heaven, through the intercession of Maurus to become a partaker of thine him by whose example we are taught eternal glory : mercifully grant unto to live aright. Through.

Memorial of Saint Mary and of All Saints. . Compline as in the Psalter. [].

Here first let be made the Vigils of the Dead as in Advent : and let them be made until Maundy Thursday as is indicated above in the Advent of the Lord. [].

At Matins. Simple Invitatory. Three Lessons. Lesson j. Lessed Maurus, coming Indeed Saint Benedict always loved BB forth from a family of him dearly above all and instructed illustrious senators, by al him : and thus he was formed by mighty God nourished under regular servitude for almighty God, as no one instruction : at the age of twelve was after him hath followed in such holy given over by his parents to Saint monastic observance. Who indeed Benedict. Who while thus far still hath ever so austerely conquered the young and strong in good manners : body by individual fasting, abstinence, just as we likewise have seen him, and wakefulness, likewise by squalour began to be assistant to his master, and by excessive cold ? Frequently and to be coworker in his miracles. indeed have we seen him in the days

664 Saint Maurus. of holy Lent, neither in a tunic nor a when he had been forced by his too cloak but clad only in a sackcloth of great exhaustion, he had been goat's hair : and only twice in a week accustomed to take a little sleep while rather taking a most small taste than sitting. No one ever saw him arise accepting food. That custom was of from bed with the other brethren : he course in the whole of life with Saint always took care to anticipate dili Benedict. Thus blessed Maurus, gently the hymns of the Nocturns. called forth by the example of his Frequently fifty, often indeed more, master, mortified the flesh by very and not infrequently all of the series strong affliction : just as much as by of the Psalter : were completed by his own father he was allowed liberty. him before the office of the Nocturns On the other hand during all the began. Thus the aforesaid blessed other seasons of the year : under the man Maurus, overflowing with virtue, monk's tunic he was always clad from from that Saint Benedict and in the the shoulders to the kidneys in a assembly of the brethren mostly jagged scapular. In bed, to be sure suppressed his name as if another upon a mound of chalk and sand, he were being spoken of : he set himself always made use of a hair shirt (except to follow after the juniors and the in the season of Lent). Then indeed negligent. But thou, O Lord, have not reclining but rather standing : or mercy upon us.

Lesson ij. E have seen (said blessed brethren would suppose that he W Benedict of Saint Maurus) in might be advanced by Saint Benedict your generation a certain most through eloquence : never did he vigorous youth of nobility, below the succumb to this, to the vice of years of adolescence, so suddenly boasting, always desiring the lofty and seized with the perfection all mon holy, and striving by all effort to astic religion : that even by com advance from strength to strength. parison with some of the older monks, When therefore blessed Maurus, in more than with his equals, in all the monastery of Father Benedict, respects he is deemed most worthy. was performing the duty of overseer But this blessed and beloved of God and deputy in his place, and in his Maurus, granted that some of his absence on a certain day returned

665 Saint Maurus. from the labour of the field : he Which man was desiring to find in found a certain lame and mute little this religion excellent men : with his boy in the way. Whose father and possessions to build a monastery, and mother, casting themselves down at to offer his only son to God, and so the feet of the blessed man, implored eventually to cast off all the affairs of by the terrible name of God, that by the world and in the same place to him their son should be restored to serve God. Now among those to health. And he, bathing in tears and whom these tidings were brought also prostrate in prayer : then making from the blessed man : was a certain the sign of the cross upon the cripple man named Arcleradus, a first cousin and also raising his eyes to heaven, of the aforesaid Florus. Who, be said, In the name of the holy and coming acquainted with Florus' desire, undivided Trinity, aided by the immediately came near to him : and merits of our most holy master : forthwith made known the reason of stand up sound and unimpaired. And his coming to the blessed man. at once restored to the most proper Florus therefore filled with joy soon health, he began to walk about before approached the king : and he en him and to bless God with a voice of treated that they be permitted to exultation. There was at that time a build a monastery as was desired. certain man of the name of Florus, Then the blessed man made him among the first of the nobles in the come to him : and made known to Kingdom of the Franks, certainly well him his desire of building a mon disposed in the worldy state : but astery. But thou, O Lord, have mercy always eager to please almighty God. upon us.

Lesson iij. Ffter this Florus shewed the And now when the said work was A blessed man a suitable place raised on high by the help of God : a where the monastery ought to be certain cleric which was in charge of built, and handed over his son, a little the workmen toppled backwards from boy named Bertulph, to the master to the highest step, and fell down be instructed in his doctrine : and heavily upon the hard stone. And many craftsmen having been assem when all believed him dead : the man bled, the work hastened to begin. of God arrived with Florus, and

666 Saint Maurus. prostrated himself on the ground. being completed : the aforesaid And when he had prayed at length : Florus himself offered to serve the he arose and making the sign of the Lord faithfully, and lived in holy cross on his crushed body said, In the religion for twelve years afterwards. name of God arise sound : and finish Moreover in the same monastery thy work. Who at once arose healthy, many men from everywhere came just as if from sleep. Moreover some together : and surrendered themselves of these workmen began to disparage to the service of almighty God. And the blessed man among themselves : when the congregation of the but an evil spirit suddenly took brethren had been made not a little possession of three of them, and time, and the holy man had been in immediately tore away the soul of one charge of his flock for thirty years of them. Which as soon as the man after the foundation of his monastery : of God recognized : he began to weep the aforesaid Bertulph, who had been exceedingly. And then he lay in brought up in holy religion, sub prayer : and those who were as yet stituted for him as pastor, and he alive he delivered from the demoniac chose to lead a separate life in a infestation. After this the man of remote cell. And at the end of two God, with fasting and incessant years and a half, in contrition of spirit sighing pleading to the Lord, and and mortification of the body : a pain offering to the Lord the sacrifice of of the side entered into him. Which, our redemption for the soul of the growing serious, lying upon a blanket dead : then approaching the body said, before the altar of blessed Martin, his by the Lord Jesus Christ : who departure fortified by the reception of revived Lazarus after four days : the life giving sacraments : then restore to this body the soul which happily he departed to the Lord. In the enemy of mankind hath driven which place God worketh many away. And when he had said this : miracles : to the praise and glory of forthwith the whole body moved his name. But thou, O Lord, have itself, and immediately arose. Now mercy upon us. the construction of the monastery

The rest from the Common of one Confessor and Abbot. [].

667 Saint Marcellus.

Saint Marcellus, Pope and Martyr. (January xvj. ) Chapter. Every high priest. [].

Prayer. Ercifully hear, O Lord, we be whose passion we rejoice. Through Mseech thee, the prayers of thy Jesus Christ thy Son, Our Lord, who people, that we may be holpen liveth and reigneth with thee in the through the merits of thy blessed unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, Martyr and Bishop Marcellus, in world without end. R. Amen.

Three Lessons. Lesson j. Aximian Augustus, the son Bishop coming to the city of Rome : M of Diocletian, ordered that presented himself to Maximian Christians wheresoever Augustus saying to him, Of thy they might be found should be goodness I submit, wherefore dost punished. At the same time he held thou slaughter the servants of God Cyriacus, Deacon the city of Rome : which pray for thy reign and for the and sent him into prison, and ordered republic ? Then angered, Maximian that on the day of his procession, for Augustus ordered that he be smitten an example of the Christians he was with clubs, and that Bishop Marcellus obliged to be dragged naked in chains be banished. But thou, O Lord, have before his carriage. Now on the day mercy upon us. of his procession Marcellus the

Lesson ij. Fter this Maximian Augustus and twenty, and were beheaded on A commanded all those in chains the Salarian way, between the baths which were in prison : together with of Sallust and the gates in the walls. Cyriacus the Deacon to be beheaded. Which bodies John the priest And having been given sentence : recovered in the night : and buried. they were led, with Cyriacus the After eight days blessed Marcellus the Deacon, of both sexes in number one Bishop coming with Lucina, a most 668 Saint Marcellus.

Christian matron, embalmed the they rest in a sarcophagus of stone, bodies of the saints with spices and who by her hand blessed Lucina linen cloths, and transported them to buried secretly in peace, on the eighth his manor on the Ostian way, seven day of the month of August. But miles from the city of Rome : where thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.

Lesson iij. T the same time blessed Lucina same church stakes would be laid out Amade a donation from her means : for the animals of the public stable, to the catholic church. Hearing this, and the same Marcellus the bishop Maximian Augustus : indignant, was assigned to the tend the animals condemned her by proscription. with a state guard. Where indeed Moreover blessed Lucina asked after many years of serving God : he blessed Marcellus the Bishop, that he rested in peace. Whose body John would consecrate her house as a the priest carried off in the night with church : and which blessed Marcellus blessed Lucina, and embalmed with the bishop did with all devotion. But spices : and buried in the cemetery of when he frequently celebrated mass in Priscilla the virgin, on the Salarian the same house in the midst of the way, not far from the city of Rome. Via Lata : Maximian Augustus But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon hearing this : commanded that in the us.

The rest from the Common of one Martyr and Bishop. [].

669 Saint Sulpicius.

Saint Sulpicius, Bishop and Confessor. (January xvij. )

Prayer. Rant, we beseech thee, almighty intercession before thee. Through GGod, that we who com Jesus Christ thy Son, Our Lord, who memorate the deposition of thy liveth and reigneth with thee in the blessed confessor and bishop unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, Sulpicius, may be helped by his world without end. R. Amen.

At Matins. Three Lessons. Lesson j. blessed Bishop Sulpicius, people and with the support of the Twhilst he lived a worldly clergy. No one else persisted in that life, remained in the house office, according to the church law, of his parents. Being devoted to good more than he did, as he endeavoured works, he was seen to do nothing else to care for the poor. And he worked but build a church or construct a always with such great effort to monastery, or to keep himself tire minister nourishments to them and lessly busy in works of mercy for the to prepare shelter for them. Who out poor. He was seen to express the of the clergy, in comparison with the bond of marriage with his love of blessed man, could be thus able to chastity, and when the Lord deigned maintain a vigil for continual nights to satisfy his prayers and good or to fast for a month ? At night he intentions : with his hair cut off from would come to the church : and the crown of his head, he received the would not retire from the church burden of clerical office, and suc before he had finished singing the ceeded the steps of ecclesiastical dig whole Book of Psalms. But thou, O nities until he ascended to the dignity Lord, have mercy upon us. of the bishopric by election of the

670 Saint Sulpicius.

Lesson ij. T that same time, being filled be brought to remembrance and he Awith longing, King Dagobert might relieve them of their affliction. ordered his general Lollonus, a man Therefore he sent a certain man of of ferocious morals : who was without his clergy, one Ebargisilus by name, any vestige of mercy, that an unac to impugn the king to notice this customed tax should be imposed on crime : and that he should denounce the people of Bourges : and that they this destruction quickly, unless it should live under the weight of the were quickly amended. Hearing this, tax, and that they should serve the the king was terrified with fear : and king’s command. At this affliction, at once ordered that the people be all the people of that region came in a relieved of the tax and that all record crowd to the memorable man of God of it should be deleted. And so the in a multitude of lamenting : and population was relieved of that af with elevated moaning, they implored fliction : and to this day remaineth in the man of God in a confused voice perfect liberty. Nonetheless, revenge that he should come down to them. followed : it is believed that it was on Having been moved by piety and not account of this crime that the king bearing up to their wailing and tears : and his satellite were killed shortly he beseeched God's mercy through thereafter. But thou, O Lord, have the imposition of a threeday fast on mercy upon us. the clergy, so that the people might

Lesson iij. Hen however the memorable man whose name was Vulfolendus. W pontiff saw himself seriously Indeed, because of his humility, that encumbered with such a great task man who cared first for the poor was between the care of the church and then seen to give help more and more the care for the poor, as well as the to the defence of the poor. Indeed, business of the whole community : he some drew away from him because he asked the king for a partner to sup had left the episcopate and handed it port this burden. The king offered over to another : and he took pleasure his approval to this : and he gave him in the multiplication of certain what he had sought, a most prudent animals. But he persisted in the work

671 Saint Sulpicius. he had undertaken, and fleeing yards in great number : with fields human praise and shunning the and the rivers flowing between huge boasting of vanity : he persisted plains so that there the inhabitants always in this work, so that he might seem to possess the very image of relieve the poor from want of food paradise . In that place he was and clothing. And after the span of honoured, by the grace of the Lord, his life was completed : he went to to continue steadfastly for the helath the Lord in peace and full of days. of human kind : by him who is most That place, the basilica where the excellent, who liveth and reigneth in memorable man of God is buried, is perfct Trinity one God eternal and called navis , because it seems as if without end remaining unchangeable there is a port for ships there. It is a for ever and ever. Amen. But thou, most lovely place between two rivers, O Lord, have mercy upon us. with pastures and woods and vine

Chapter. Behold a great priest. and the rest from the Common of one Confessor and Bishop. [].

672 Saint Prisca.

Saint Prisca, Virgin and Martyr. (January xviij. )

Prayer. Rant, we beseech thee, almighty example of such great faith. Through GGod, that we who keep the Jesus Christ thy Son, Our Lord, who feastday of thy blessed Virgin and liveth and reigneth with thee in the Martyr Prisca, may both rejoice in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, yearly solemnity, and profit by the world without end. R. Amen.

Let three Lessons be made from the Common. XX. The rest from the Common of one Virgin and Martyr. Chapter. O Lord, my God. XX . Prayer as above.

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