INDULGENCES GRANTED BY LEO XIII

(Applicable to the souls in purgatory.)

PLENARY INDULGENCES. —

  1. On the day of admission (1);
  2. At the hour of death;
  3. For every yearly pilgrimage made to the Oratory of the Holy Face;
  4. On the feast of Saint Peter, or on a day during the Octave;
  5. On the feast of the Transfiguration, or a day during the octave;
  6. On Passion Sunday, or any other day fixed by the Ordinary.

In order to gain these last three indulgences, it is necessary to visit the seat of the Confraternity.

PARTIAL INDULGENCES. — Seven years and seven quarantines for each assistance at the monthly reunions.

Sixty Days:

  1. For each pious exercise performed at the seat of the Confraternity;
  2. For any other work of piety offered in union with the object of the association;
  3. Each time a member devoutly kisses the effigy of the Holy Face repeating the invocation: Lord, show us thy Face, and we shall be saved.

A hundred days for every prayer said before an effigy of the Holy Face. (Pius IX. December 11th 1876.)

Forty days each time a member assists at any of the daily morning or evening exercises in the chapel of the Holy Face at Tours. (The archbishop of Tours, November 15th 1876.)

The above indulgences which require that a visit should be made to the church, may be gained by sick persons by virtue of some other act prescribed by the confessor. (Brief of the 30th March 1885.)

N. B. — The associates will endeavor to be faithful to their pious engagements, although these engagements, as they all know, do not impose an obligation of conscience, that is to say, do not oblige under penalty of sin.

(1) In order that the associate may more easily gain this plenary indulgence, unless advised to the contrary, the Director will name, for the day of his admission, a Sunday or Festival.

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