Phát Diệm: cathedral jubilee pilgrimage

Make a pilgrimage to Phát Diệm cathedral and join jubilee rites or spend suitable time in prayer or Christian devotion.

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Time required Variable: pilgrimage with jubilee rites or suitable prayer and concluding intercessions.

When: Any day during 11 January–27 December 2026
Where: Phát Diệm cathedral, Phát Diệm, Ninh Bình, Vietnam
Who: Eligible faithful making the cathedral pilgrimage
Application: Self or the departed

The prescribed work

Make a pilgrimage to Phát Diệm cathedral; there, devoutly join the jubilee rites or spend suitable time in meditation, prayer or another Christian devotion.
For the suitable-prayer alternative, pray against present errors, for peace and concord, Vietnam’s faithfulness to its Christian vocation, priestly and religious vocations, and protection of the family; conclude with the Our Father, Creed and invocations to Mary, Queen of Peace and Mother of Mercy.
Fulfil the usual plenary conditions, including complete detachment from sin. The original Latin gives “Queen of Peace”; the accompanying Vietnamese translation instead prints “Queen of Vietnam.” The original is followed here.

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. Complete the pilgrimage and participate in the jubilee rites. Their actual schedule determines the duration.

Timing sources

Pilgrimage with suitable prayer

Duration varies

Variable; no fixed number of minutes is prescribed.

No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. The decree requires suitable time in reflection, prayer or devotion, plus its intercessions and concluding prayers. No numeric minimum is given; brief recitation of the concluding prayers alone is not the complete work.

Timing sources

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: 11 January 2026
Stated end: 27 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

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