[Rank]
S. Casimiri Confessoris;;Semiduplex;;2.1;;vide C5

[Rank1960]
S. Casimiri Confessoris;;Duplex;;3;;vide C5

[RankNewcal]
S. Casimiri;;Semiduplex;;2.1;;vide C5

[Rule]
vide C5;
9 lectiones;
CPapaM=Lucius;
Lectio1 Quad

[Oratio]
O God, Who strengthened St. Casimir with the virtue of steadfastness amid the luxuries of a royal court and the allurements of the world, we beseech thee that, through his intercession, thy faithful may treat earthly things as naught and ever aspire to those of heaven.
$Per Dominum

[Commemoratio]
!Commemoration of S. Lucius I, Pope and Martyr
@Commune/C2:Oratio proper Gregem
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$Oremus
O God, Who, year by year, dost gladden us by the solemn Feast-day of thy blessed Confessor and Pontifex Lucius mercifully grant unto all who keep his birthday, grace to follow after the pattern of his godly conversation.
$Per Dominum.

[Lectio4]
This Casimir was the son of Casimir III, King of Poland, by Elizabeth of Austria, his wife, (and was born upon the 3rd day of October, in the year 1458.) From his childhood he was taught by the best masters, and was trained in all godliness and good learning. While he was still a boy he wore rough haircloth, and chastened himself with much fasting. He forsook the softness of his princely bed, and lay upon the hard ground, and on stormy nights he would go out secretly and prostrate himself before the doors of the churches, crying to God for mercy. He was unwearied in contemplating the Passion of Christ, and when he was present at Mass, so profound was his recollection, that he seemed to be altogether beside himself.

[Lectio5]
He made the propagation of the Catholic faith one of the chief works of his life, and strove hard against the schism in Ruthenia. He persuaded his father to forbid by law that the schismatics should build any new churches, or repair the existing ones when they fell into decay. So great was his liberality and tenderness toward the needy and the afflicted, that he came to be called the father and guardian of the poor. From his infancy he never soiled his purity, and in his last illness, when his physicians advised him to seek for relief from his grievous sufferings by the sacrifice of his chastity, he cheerfully determined rather to die.

[Lectio6]
Being made perfect in a short space, and full of piety and good works, he foretold the day of his own death, and, gathering round him a choir of priests and monks, he rendered his soul into the hands of God Whom they were praising, ~(upon the 4th day of March, in the year of our Lord 1482, and) the 25th of his own age. His body was carried to Wilna, where many miracles are reputed to have been wrought around it. At his grave a dead girl is said to have received her life again, blind men their sight, cripples the power of walking, and many sick folk health. Moreover, on an occasion when the Lithuanians in scanty numbers were exposed to the shock of a powerful enemy, they believed that he appeared in the air, and gave them the signal victory which they won. On the assurance of these things, Leo X. was moved to add his name to those of the Saints.

[Lectio94]
Casimir, son of the king of Poland, was brought up from his childhood in the love of God and in learning. He tamed his youthful body by wearing a hair-shirt, and weakened it with continual fasting. Indefatigable in contemplating the Passion of Christ, he never slackened in the spirit of prayer. He was most zealous in promoting the Catholic faith and in doing away with the schism of the Ruthenians. So helpful and kind was he to the poor and to all those afflicted by any calamity that he earned the name of father and defender of the needy. He preserved his virginity intact all his life. Made perfect in a short time, filled with grace and merits, he gave up his spirit to God on the day which he had foretold, in the twenty-fifth year of his age. He was famous for many miracles, and Leo X numbered him among the Saints.
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