Saint Gerard Majella birth tercentenary concession (2026)
Saint Gerard Majella: Basilicata tercentenary
Pilgrimage to an approved church for the saint’s birth tercentenary.
Time required Variable: pilgrimage and rites or prayer; an impeded-person alternative is provided.
- When
- 2026-04-06–2027-04-23
- Where
- Churches in Basilicata, Italy, expressly designated in the metropolitan archbishop’s petition
- Who
- All eligible faithful
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Make a pilgrimage to an approved church; there, participate in sacred rites or spend suitable time before Saint Gerard’s remains in meditation, prayer or Christian devotion for God’s glory.
- For the prayer alternative, intercede for peace and harmony among peoples and against contemporary errors; conclude with the Our Father, Creed and invocations to Mary, Queen of Peace and Mother of Mercy, and Saint Gerard.
- Elderly or sick faithful, caregivers and those unable to leave home for a serious cause may unite spiritually with the celebrations, offer their prayers and sufferings or life’s difficulties to the merciful God, detach from sin and intend the usual conditions as soon as possible.
The work and its conditions
A plenary indulgence also requires complete detachment from every sin, sacramental confession, Holy Communion, and prayer for the Pope’s intentions, subject to the grant’s stated exceptions. The ordinary limit is one plenary indulgence per day.
Conditions common to every indulgence
The person gaining an indulgence must be baptized, not excommunicated, and in the state of grace at least when the prescribed works are completed. There must be at least a general intention to gain indulgences, and the prescribed work must be performed at the time and in the manner required by the grant.
Read the full conditions and norms. The cited grant and its specific provisions govern.
Time required
Read each branch with its own conditions. An editorial estimate is not a prescribed minimum.
Pilgrimage with jubilee rites
Complete the prescribed event
Length of the prescribed celebration.
No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. Participation in the prescribed celebration is required; allow for its actual schedule and any pilgrimage, visit or prayers specified for this route.
Pilgrimage and prayer
Duration varies
Variable; no fixed number of minutes is prescribed.
No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. The complete pilgrimage/visit and the prescribed prayer or meditation are required. “Suitable time” is qualitative; no minute figure is supplied. Listed concluding prayers do not replace the preceding devotion.
Spiritual union when legitimately impeded
Duration varies
Variable; no fixed number of minutes is prescribed.
No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. Unite spiritually and perform the prescribed prayers or offering in the manner stated in this grant. No duration for suffering is imposed.
What the time estimate excludes
- Ordinary travel to and from the venue, and waiting outside the prescribed work; required procession or pilgrimage activity remains included
- Separate confession, Communion and prayer for the Pope’s intentions, except where a branch expressly includes the prescribed celebration
- Stated start
- 6 April 2026
- Stated end
- 23 April 2027
Prayer texts and resources
Follow the prayer count and formula specified in the requirements. The two Creed readers are alternatives.
Source and exact reference
- Basilicata Episcopal Conference: complete concessionOperative period, approved Basilicata churches and impeded-faithful provision
- Basilicata Episcopal Conference: original Latin decree6 April 2026, Prot. 01031/2026-259/26/I; first operative paragraph
- Enchiridion Indulgentiarum: church-visit normNorm 19: the ordinary church/oratory visit rule expressly yields when the particular concession prescribes otherwise.
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.