THE

MANUAL OF INDULGENCES;

BEING A

Collection of Prayers and Good Works,

TO WHICH THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFFS HAVE

ATTACHED HOLY INDULGENCES.

PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF

HIS HOLINESS POPE PIUS IX.

TRANSLATION AUTHORIZED AND APPROVED

BY THE

SACRED CONGREGATION OF HOLY INDULGENCES.

WITH

AN APPENDIX

CONTAINING PRAYERS FOR MASS, AND VESPERS FOR SUNDAYS.

APPROVED AND COMMENDED.

JOHN CARD. MCCLOSKEY,

ARCHBISHOP OF NEW YORK

NEW YORK, Sept. 5th, 1878.

Imprimatur :

JACOBUS,

ARCHIEP. BALTIMORENSIS

DIE xxii Sept. 1878.

DECLARATION.

The Sacred Congregation of Indulgences an Holy Relics, in conformity with the declaratio of Dec. 29, 1864, and in view of the testimony of the professors of theology of Woodstock College, in the United States of America, in regard to the English translation, made in the said college, of the book entitled: Raccolta di Orazioni e Pie opcrc, per le quali sono state concesse dai Sommi Pontefici le SS. Indulgenze, published at Rome from the press of the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda, GUARANTEES THE FIDELITY OF THE SAID TRANSLATION, ordering, at the same time, that some copies of the book be sent to the office of the Secretary of the said Sacred Congregation, to be preserved in its archives.

Given at Rome, from the Office of the Secretary of the said S. Congregation, June 17, 1878. AL. CARD. OREGLIA,

a S. STEPHANO, Prefect.

L. S.

A. PANICI, Secretary.

PREFACE.

THERE have been published, from time to time, with the approbation of the Sacred Congregation of Indulgences, Raccoltas, or Collections of Prayers and Pious Practices, to which the Sovereign Pontiffs have attached indulgences. None of these Raccoltas was found to be free from imperfections: either because certain indulgences which had been granted were wanting, or because their nature and character was not exactly stated, or because mistakes occurred in regard either to the Popes who had granted the indulgences, or to the date of their concession.

In order to apply a remedy, the S. Congregation, not content with merely approving, caused a new Raccolta to be compiled under its own immediate supervision, thereby guaranteeing its exactness, fidelity, and authority. This Raccolta was approved by his Holiness, Pius IX., by a decree of the S. Congregation of Indulgences and