San Francisco Solano tercentenary: Apostolic Penitentiary and Córdoba decree (2026)
Montilla: Saint Francis Solano jubilee
Visit the Montilla parish during the canonization tercentenary jubilee.
Time required Variable: visit and prescribed meditation/rites, including the diocese’s Eucharistic direction.
- When
- 14 July–27 December 2026
- Where
- Parish of San Francisco Solano, Montilla, Diocese of Córdoba, Spain
- Who
- All eligible faithful; a distinct provision applies to elderly or sick people and others legitimately impeded for a grave reason as specified in the decree.
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Visit individually or with a group, with the express intention of obtaining the indulgence; participate devoutly in jubilee rites or spend suitable time in meditation.
- For the meditation alternative, conclude with the Our Father, Creed and a prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Fulfil the usual plenary conditions; the bishop’s decree includes Eucharistic participation and Communion.
- Elderly or sick people and those otherwise legitimately prevented for a grave reason from leaving home or praying before the venerated image may, with complete detachment from sin, unite spiritually with the jubilee celebrations through radio, television or the internet, recite the Our Father, Creed and a prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary before another image of Saint Francis Solano, and intend to fulfil the usual sacramental and prayer conditions as soon as possible. They must also offer their prayers and sufferings to merciful God for the conversion of sinners and the spread of Christ’s Kingdom throughout the earth.
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.
Visit, rites and Eucharistic participation
Complete the prescribed event
Length of the prescribed celebration.
No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. The bishop’s directions include Eucharistic participation and Communion. Allow for the actual celebration and prescribed visit.
Timing sources
- Diocese of Córdoba: published episcopal decree, first pageProt. S. 2026/05/236, preamble and §§1–3; posted with the diocesan announcement
- Diocese of Córdoba, published by ODISUR: jubilee decree directions30 May 2026: Penitentiary authorization of 23 February; operative period, visit and impeded-person provisions
- Diocese of Córdoba: Iglesia en Córdoba, issue 9777 June 2026, printed page 21: diocesan summary of the directions
- Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, fourth editionNorm 19: the ordinary church/oratory visit rule expressly yields when the particular concession prescribes otherwise.
Visit with meditation, plus Eucharistic participation
Duration varies
Variable; no fixed number of minutes is prescribed.
No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. The suitable-time meditation alternative has no numeric minimum. The bishop’s additional Eucharistic participation direction still applies, together with the prescribed visit and the concluding Our Father, Creed and Marian prayer.
Timing sources
- Diocese of Córdoba: published episcopal decree, first pageProt. S. 2026/05/236, preamble and §§1–3; posted with the diocesan announcement
- Diocese of Córdoba, published by ODISUR: jubilee decree directions30 May 2026: Penitentiary authorization of 23 February; operative period, visit and impeded-person provisions
- Diocese of Córdoba: Iglesia en Córdoba, issue 9777 June 2026, printed page 21: diocesan summary of the directions
- Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, fourth editionNorm 19: the ordinary church/oratory visit rule expressly yields when the particular concession prescribes otherwise.
Spiritual union when legitimately impeded
Duration varies
Variable; no fixed number of minutes is prescribed.
No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. Eligible impeded people join the jubilee celebrations spiritually through radio, television or the internet, recite the Our Father, Creed and a Marian prayer before another image of Saint Francis Solano, and offer prayers and sufferings for the decree’s intentions. The actual celebration, prayer and offering determine the time; no numeric minimum is given.
Timing sources
- Diocese of Córdoba: published episcopal decree, first pageProt. S. 2026/05/236, preamble and §§1–3; posted with the diocesan announcement
- Diocese of Córdoba, published by ODISUR: jubilee decree directions30 May 2026: Penitentiary authorization of 23 February; operative period, visit and impeded-person provisions
- Diocese of Córdoba: Iglesia en Córdoba, issue 9777 June 2026, printed page 21: diocesan summary of the directions
- Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, fourth editionNorm 19: the ordinary church/oratory visit rule expressly yields when the particular concession prescribes otherwise.
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 start
- 14 July 2026
- Stated end
- 27 December 2026
Occasion and source notes
The bishop’s published decree page supplies the operative directions. Its signature page and the underlying Apostolic Penitentiary rescripts were not retrieved. This is separate from Montilla’s Saint John of Ávila jubilee, which ended on 31 May 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
- Diocese of Córdoba: published episcopal decree, first pageProt. S. 2026/05/236, preamble and §§1–3; posted with the diocesan announcement
- Diocese of Córdoba, published by ODISUR: jubilee decree directions30 May 2026: Penitentiary authorization of 23 February; operative period, visit and impeded-person provisions
- Diocese of Córdoba: Iglesia en Córdoba, issue 9777 June 2026, printed page 21: diocesan summary of the directions
- Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, fourth editionNorm 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.