November pandemic extensions (2020–2021)
All-November cemetery extension — historical
Pandemic decrees extended the usual November dates in 2020 and 2021.
Time required Historical only: no fixed minutes for the cemetery visit and prayer.
- When
- Historical 2020 and 2021 concessions
- Where
- Worldwide
- Who
- All eligible faithful
- Application
- The departed only
The prescribed work
- These year-specific extensions are not authority for an all-November plenary cemetery indulgence in 2026.
- Use the standing 1–8 November grant unless a new applicable decree states otherwise.
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.
Historical cemetery visit and prayer
Duration varies
Variable; no fixed number of minutes is prescribed.
No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. The extension altered eligible calendar dates, not the duration of the visit or prayer. It is not authority for an all-November grant in 2026.
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
- 1 November 2021
- Stated end
- 30 November 2021
Source and exact reference
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.