By a decree Urbis et Orbis of the Sacred Congregation of Indulgences dated the 8^th of January 1861, confirming and renewing the Constitution of Clement VIII, upon the establishment, or the aggregations of Confraternities, it is laid down that, in the formula of the aggregations which ought to be, at least in substance, conformable to that prescribed by Clement VIII, there must be inserted, at any rate, the principal points of the said Constitution together with the modifications approved by Pius IX.

Nevertheless, at the request of some Heads of orders and of Directors of Archconfraternities, in order to facilitate the printing and expedition of the Diplomas, His Holiness Pope Pius IX, in an audience of the 19^th October 1886, deigned to grant that, in future, the above named points of the Constitution may be written down upon a separate sheet, but in such a manner that the communication of the sheet shall be rigorously annexed to the Diplomas and also expressed in the formula of aggregation…

Given at Rome at the Office of the Holy Congregation of Indulgences and of Holy Relics, the 19^th of Oct. 1886.

Ant. M. Cardin. Panebianca, Pref.

Phil. Can. Cossa, substitute.