First Visitation Monastery of Santiago sesquicentenary (2026–2027)
Santiago: First Visitation Monastery jubilee
Make a pilgrimage to the first monastery’s church for its 150th anniversary.
Time required Variable: pilgrimage and rites or suitable prayer; an impeded-person alternative is provided.
- When
- 9 March 2026–9 March 2027
- Where
- First Monastery of the Visitation of Holy Mary, Huérfanos 2341, Santiago, Chile
- Who
- Visitandine sisters and all eligible faithful
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Make a pilgrimage to the monastery church; participate devoutly in jubilee rites or spend substantial time in prayer, meditation or Christian devotion.
- Pray for peace, harmony among peoples and the world’s needs; conclude with the Our Father, Creed and Marian invocations. Fulfil the usual plenary conditions.
- Elderly or sick people, carers and those unable to attend for a grave reason may unite spiritually with the celebrations, offer prayers and trials, reject sin and intend to fulfil the usual conditions as soon as possible.
- These directions come from the archdiocese’s account of the apostolic decree. This grant concerns the First Monastery, not every Visitation monastery.
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 and jubilee rites
Complete the prescribed event
Length of the prescribed celebration.
No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. The complete pilgrimage and participation in the selected rites are required; the service schedule determines the duration.
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
- Separate confession, Communion and prayer for the Pope’s intentions, except where a branch expressly includes the prescribed celebration
- Stated start
- 9 March 2026
- Stated end
- 9 March 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
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.