[Rank]
S. Lini Papae Martyris;;Semiduplex;;2;;vide C2

[Rule]
vide C2;
9 lectiones
OPapaM=Linus;

[Oratio]
O God, Who, year by year, dost gladden us by the solemn Feast-day of thy blessed~
Confessor and Pontifex Linus, mercifully grant unto all who keep his birthday, grace~
to follow after the pattern of his godly conversation.
$Per Dominum

[Commemoratio]
!Commemoration of St. Thecla, Virgin & Martyr
@Commune/C6:Oratio proper
$Oremus.
Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, unto all thy servants who do here keep the~
birthday of thy blessed Virgin and Martyr Thecla, and do year by year rejoice at~
her solemn commemoration, that they may have grace to follow after the pattern of~
her great faith.
$Per Dominum

[Lectio4]
Pope Linus was by birth a native of Velletri in Tuscany, and was~ 
the first after Peter who governed the Church. His faith and holiness~
were such that he not only cast out devils, but also raised the dead. He wrote~
the acts of Blessed Peter, and especially the history of his strife with Simon~
Magus. He forbade women to enter the Church without having a veil upon their~
heads. His own head was cut off, on account of his firmness in confessing Christ,~
by command of the godless Consular Saturninus, an unthankful wretch whose own~
daughter he had delivered from being tormented by a devil. He was buried upon~
the Vatican Mount, hard by the grave of the Prince of the Apostles, upon the~
23rd day of September. He sat as Pope eleven years, two months, and twenty -~
three days. He held two December ordinations, wherein he made fifteen Bishops,~
and eighteen Priests.

[Lectio5]
From the Exposition of the hundred -and - eighteenth Psalm by St. Ambrose, Bishop~
~(of Milan)
!1st Sermon
Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy~
word. These are rightly the words of a martyr, who beareth unjustly the torments~
of the persecutors, who hath robbed no man, who hath violently oppressed no man,~
who hath shed the blood of no man, who hath imagined to defile the bed of no man,~
who is debtor to the laws in nothing, and who is punished more grievously than~
if he were a robber who speaketh righteousness, and there is none that will~
hear who speaketh salvation, and all men fight against him who is able to~
say When I spoke unto them, they fought against me without a cause. (Ps.~
cxix. 7.) They fight against him without a cause, who can lay no sin to his~
charge; they fight against him as an evildoer, who is by their own~
acknowledgement righteous they fight against him as a warlock, who glorieth in~
the name of the Lord, and who doeth all things well because he doeth all things~
for God's sake.

[Lectio6]
They fight against him in vain who is accused of ungodliness among the ungodly~
and the unfaithful, because he teacheth Faith. Verily, him that is fought~
against without a cause it behoveth to be strong and patient. Wherefore then~
saith he My heart standeth in awe of thy word? Awe is the mark of the weak,~
the timid, and the fearful. But there is also a weakness unto salvation, there~
is a fear which is an holy fear. O fear the Lord, all ye His Saints. (Ps.~
xxxiii. 10.) And again: Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord. (Ps. cxi. i.)~
And wherefore is he blessed? because he delighteth greatly in His commandments.

[Lectio93]
This virgin Thecla was the daughter of noble parents at Iconium, and a disciple~
of the Apostle Paul. She is the subject of extraordinary praises by the holy~
Fathers. In the eighteenth year of her age, she parted from one Thamiris, to~
whom she had been betrothed, and her kindred accused her of being a Christian. A~
pile was set a-fire for her, unless she should deny Christ, but she made the~
sign of the Cross, and willingly entered it, and rain came, and put out the~
fire. She came to Antioch, where they threw her to wild beasts; and strove to~
tear her asunder, by tying her to oxen driven different ways; and cast her into a~
pit with many snakes; but by the mercy of Jesus Christ she was delivered from~
all. The warmth of her faith and the holiness of her life brought many to~
Christ. She returned into her own country, and withdrew to be an hermit, alone~
on a certain mountain, and passed away to be with the Lord, aged ninety years,~
and famous for many good works and miracles. She was buried at Seleucia.
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[Lectio94]
Pope Linus was by birth a native of Velletri in Tuscany, and was the immediate successor of Peter in the government of the Church. His faith and holiness were such that he not only cast out devils, but also raised the dead. He wrote the acts of Blessed Peter, and especially the history of his strife with Simon Magus. He forbade women to enter the Church without having a veil upon their heads. His own head was cut off, on account of his firmness in confessing Christ, by command of the godless Consul Saturninus, an unthankful wretch whose own daughter he had delivered from being tormented by a devil. He was buried upon the Vatican Mount, hard by the grave of the Prince of the Apostles, upon the 23rd day of September. He sat as Pope eleven years, two months, and twenty-three days. He held two December ordinations, wherein he made fifteen Bishops, and eighteen Priests.
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