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Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro me.

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Exact Latin example in the Enchiridion appendix. It is a short invocation accompanying the work described by the first general grant: performing duties or bearing hardships while raising the mind to God with humble confidence. Its inclusion in this appendix does not establish a separate unconditional grant; the conditions of General Grant I apply. The English is the short Marian petition excerpted from the Raccolta (1930), printed page 451. The longer source continues “now and at the moment of my death”; that continuation is outside this appendix invocation. Terminal punctuation is supplied. The English wording is taken from a historical edition in the public domain in the United States. The Latin example is unchanged. The approved English Manual counterpart remains linked. Historical indulgence ratings, where present, are not the current grant.

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Estimated English reading time 5 seconds

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Actual displayed historical English source text; editorial vocal pace 100–160 words per minute, rounded outward with a minimum five-second display interval. This estimate applies to the displayed edition. It is not a prescribed minimum or a separate unconditional indulgence; General Grant I circumstances still apply.

Reading estimate only; it does not establish the duration or satisfy other conditions of a related indulgenced work. General Grant I also requires its daily-life or hardship context and humble trust; an isolated stopwatch reading is not that context.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for me.

Latin text

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Estimated Latin reading time 5–10 seconds

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Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro me.

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English source

Manual of Indulgences — English text · PDF page 91

Approved English counterpart in the appendix of pious invocations. The circumstances of General Grant I remain applicable.

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