Apostolic Penitentiary decree of 23 September 1967; General Regulations 2025, Article 83
Order of the Holy Sepulchre: investiture and proper feasts
Members receive a plenary indulgence on investiture and four proper feasts, with a private renewal of their statutory commitment.
Time required Private renewal: about 1–5 minutes (estimate); admission or other rites vary.
- When
- Investiture day; St Helena (18 August), St Pius X (21 August), Exaltation of the Holy Cross (14 September), and Our Lady Queen of Palestine (25 October in Article 83).
- Where
- No particular pilgrimage site is required by this membership grant.
- Who
- Members of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Be a member of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
- Make or renew, at least privately, the promise faithfully to observe the Order’s Constitution/statutes.
- Fulfill the usual plenary conditions: sacramental confession, Communion, prayer for the Pope’s intentions, and complete detachment from every sin, including venial sin.
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.
Actual investiture or enrollment and statutory promise
Complete the prescribed event
Full rite or event; duration varies
Complete the actual admission procedure, rite or event specified by this grant. The source sets no fixed duration; follow the organizer’s schedule.
Qualifying feast: private statutory-promise renewal
Editorial estimate
About 1–5 minutes for a simple private renewal (editorial estimate)
No fixed duration is prescribed. The 1–5 minute range is an editorial estimate for a simple private renewal. Any separately required enrollment or rite remains necessary.
What the time estimate excludes
- Ordinary travel to and from the venue, and waiting outside the prescribed work
- Separate fulfillment of the usual plenary conditions, except prayers or Mass expressly included in the branch.
- Stated start
- 23 September 1967
Occasion and source notes
The current Article 83 gives 25 October for Our Lady Queen of Palestine. Some lieutenancies observe a nearby Sunday; follow the lawful Order calendar. The old August date reproduced in the historical appendix is not an additional present occasion.
Source and exact reference
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.