Enchiridion · Grant 21 §2
Further visits honoring a newly proclaimed saint or blessed
Devout visits to the qualifying church or oratory during the same one-year period carry a partial indulgence.
Time required No fixed duration; length of the devout visit
- When
- Within one year after the canonization or beatification
- Where
- A qualifying church or oratory
- Who
- All eligible faithful
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Make a devout visit to the church or oratory where the solemn celebrations in the new saint’s or blessed’s honor are held.
- Remain within the year following canonization or beatification.
The work and its conditions
The general requirements include at least a general intention, the state of grace by the completion of the work, and a contrite heart. Complete the work as prescribed.
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.
Devout visit
Duration varies
No fixed duration; length of the devout visit
No numerical duration is prescribed. The partial clause refers back to the previously described devout visit, whose plenary description includes the Our Father and Creed; the prayer clause is not separately repeated for the partial route. The year following canonization or beatification is an eligibility window, not a yearlong work.
Timing sources
- Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, fourth edition (1999)Grant 21 §2
- Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, fourth edition (1999)Grant 21 §2; partial clause refers to praefatam visitationem
- Congregation of Rites instruction, 12 September 1968AAS 60 (1968), p. 602, no. 5; preceding visit includes Pater et Credo
- Apostolic Penitentiary, fourth-edition text reproduced in NotitiaeNotitiae 36 (2000), printed p. 114 / PDF p. 52, grant 21 §2
What the time estimate excludes
- Ordinary travel to and from the venue, and waiting outside the prescribed work
- Preparation and the ordinary conditions for a plenary indulgence, unless they are themselves part of the prescribed work
Occasion and source notes
The source’s partial clause refers back to the preceding devout visit, which is described with the Our Father and Creed. It does not separately repeat the prayer clause for the partial route.
Source and exact reference
- Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, fourth edition (1999)Grant 21 §2
- Congregation of Rites instruction, 12 September 1968AAS 60 (1968), p. 602, no. 5; preceding visit includes Pater et Credo
- Apostolic Penitentiary, fourth-edition text reproduced in NotitiaeNotitiae 36 (2000), printed p. 114 / PDF p. 52, grant 21 §2
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.