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Matins Hours or Office of the Virgin
Domine, labia mea aperiis:et os meum annancaibit
laudem tusm.
from the Misenere Psalm 51:15 O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: and my tongue should declare
thy praise.
Other hours - Deus in adjutorium meum intende.
Complins - Converte nos Deussalutaris noster.
See Baring - Gould The Lives of the Saints 9 Aug BX 4655 B3 based on Latin edition of Graesu
Leipzig (1850)
235.2 D51 Santa Clara The Golden Legend - August
1 The Holy Machabees
- * 1 St Peter in Chains
- 2 St Stephen the Pope
* 3 The invention of St. Stephen the 1st Martyr
* 4 St. Dominic (Dominicus) founder of the order of Preachers AS 122 b/ at Calaruega in Castile
- * 6 St. Sixtus II - "On this same day the Church celebrates the feast of the Transfiguation [inserted] Ressurection [end inserted] of our Lord."
AD 258 succeded Pope St. Stempen I.
7 St. Donatus
- 8 St. Cyriacus + his companions
- * 10 St. Lawrence (Laurentius Martyr AD 258 - apostles revealed it on this day.
- * 13 St. Hippolytus Martyr AD 235
- *15 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin MAry 1st Century
20 St. Bernard
22 St. Simphorianus
- * 24 St. Bartholomeu - Apostle 1st Century
- * 28 St. Augustine - Bishop of Hippo N. Africa - De Civitate Dei, Doctor of the Church AD 43
- * 29 The Decollation of St. John the Baptist - C. AD 39
29 Sts Savinianus + Sovina
30 Sts Felix + Adauctus

The dates assigned to the various Feast Days were taken from
The Book of Saints, The Benedictine Monks of St Augustine's
Abbey, Bamagate. London: A+C. Blank, 1931.