[Rank]
S. Damasi Papae Confessoris;;Semiduplex;;2.5;;vide C4

[Rank1960]
S. Damasi Papae et confessoris;;Duplex;;3;;vide C4

[RankNewcal]
S. Damasi Papae et confessoris;;Semiduplex;;2.5;;vide C4

[Rule]
vide C4;
9 lectiones;
OPapaC=Damasus;
Doxology=Nat
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[Oratio]
Aeternal Shepherd, do thou look with favor upon thy flock. Guard and keep it for~
evermore through blessed Damasus, thy Supreme Pontiff, whom thou didst choose to~
be the chief shepherd of the whole Church
$Per Dominum

[Commemoratio]
!Commemoratio Die infra Octavam Immaculatae Conceptionis B.M.V.
@Sancti/12-08:Oratio

[Lectio4]
Damasus was a Spaniard, a man of eminence and of great learning in the~
Scriptures, (and was elected to the Chair of Peter in the year~
of our Lord 381) he convoked the First Council of Constantinople,~
wherein he crushed the wicked heresy of Eunomius and Macedonius. He confirmed~
the condemnation of the Assembly, at Rimini, which condemnation had already been~
pronounced by Liberius. This Assembly of Rimini was that in which, to use the~
language of St Jerome, Valens and Ursacius brought it about through trickery~
that the Faith of Nice was abrogated by mob law, and the world afterwards~
groaned in amazement to find itself Arian.

[Lectio5]
This Pope built two Basilicas, first, St Lawrence's, near Pompey's Theatre,~
which he magnificently enriched, and endowed with houses and farms; and,~
secondly, another, over the Catacombs on the Road to Ardea. He also consecrated~
the Platonia, where the bodies of St Peter and St Paul lay for some time, and~
decorated it with elegant inscriptions in poetry composed by himself. He wrote~
on the subject of virginity both in prose and verse, and likewise many other~
poems on various subjects.

[Lectio6]
He ordained that false accusers should be punished for the offences which they~
had falsely laid to the charge of their neighbours. He established the usage,~
which already prevailed in many churches, of singing the Psalms, both by day and~
by night, by alternate choirs, and of adding at the end of each Psalm the words,~
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. It was at his~
command that St Jerome revised the translation of the New Testament to accord~
with the Greek text. He ruled the Church for seventeen years, two months, and~
twenty-six days. He held five Advent ordinations, wherein he ordained thirty-one~
Priests, eleven Deacons, and sixty-two Bishops for divers Sees. At length he~
fell asleep in the Lord, in the reign of Theodosius the Elder, (upon the 10th~
day of December, in the year 384, being) aged nearly eighty years, and full of~
righteousness, truth, and judgment. He was buried beside his mother and sister~
in the Church which he had himself founded on the Road to Ardea. His reliques~
were afterwards taken to the Basilica of St Lawrence, which is thence sometimes~
called San Lorenzo in Damaso.

[Lectio94]
Damasus a Spaniard was a man of great eminence learned in the sacred Scriptures. He called the first Council of Constantinople in which he abolished the evil heresy of Ennomius and Macedonius. He repeated the condemnation already pronounced by Liberius, of the council of Rimini, due as St. Jerome writes, to the intrigues of Valence and Ursaciushad condemned the faith of Nicea. Damasus built two basilicas: one dedicated St Lawrence near the theater of Pompey, the other on the Ardeatine way at the Catacombs.He declared that, as was already the custom in many places, psalms should be sung day and night in all churches by alternate chirs, and that at the end of each psalm should be repeated: 'Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit'. It was at his command that St. Jerome revised the translation of the New Testament to make it faithful to the Greek text. He discovered many bodies of holy martyrs, and celebrated their memory in verses. When he was nearly eighty years old, and famous for his virtue, learning and prudence, he fell asleep in the Lord, during the reign of Theodosius the Great. 
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