Lima: seven churches for the Toribio jubilee

Pilgrimage to one of Lima’s seven designated jubilee churches.

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Time required Variable: a complete visit and either the prescribed rites or prayer.

When: Published 5 May 2026; valid through 10 December 2026
Where: Lima, Peru: Cathedral; Nuestra Señora de Copacabana; San Marcelo; Santa Clara monastery; Santiago Apóstol; Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo–La Inmaculada; San Sebastián
Who: All eligible faithful visiting one of the designated churches
Application: Self or the departed

The prescribed work

Make a pilgrimage to a designated church, and there participate devoutly in a sacred celebration, or spend time in prayer and meditation before Saint Toribio’s relics or image.
For the prayer and meditation alternative, conclude with the Our Father, Creed and an invocation to Saint Toribio. Fulfil the usual plenary conditions.
The archdiocese published these directions on 5 May 2026, valid until the jubilee closes on 10 December. Consult it for the complete underlying decree.

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/visit with jubilee rites

Complete the prescribed event

Length of the prescribed celebration.

No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. The complete prescribed visit and participation in the selected rites are required; the service schedule determines the duration.

Timing sources

Archdiocese of Lima: official designation and conditions5 May 2026: seven named churches, prescribed alternatives/prayers and December 10 closing

Pilgrimage/visit with prayer

Duration varies

Variable; no fixed number of minutes is prescribed.

No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. Complete the prescribed visit, prayer or meditation and concluding prayers. No numeric duration is supplied by the source; do not treat recitation of the concluding prayers alone as the whole work.

Timing sources

Archdiocese of Lima: official designation and conditions5 May 2026: seven named churches, prescribed alternatives/prayers and December 10 closing

What the time estimate excludes

Ordinary travel to and from the venue, and waiting outside the prescribed work
Separate confession, Communion and prayer for the Pope’s intentions, except where a branch expressly includes the prescribed celebration

Stated end: 10 December 2026

Prayer texts and resources

Follow the prayer count and formula specified in the requirements. The two Creed readers are alternatives.

Source and exact reference

Archdiocese of Lima: official designation and conditions5 May 2026, Cómo obtener: sacred celebration or prayer/meditation before relics or image, with the concluding prayers in that prayer sequence; seven named churches and December 10 closing

Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.