Apostolic Penitentiary concession, as listed by the Birgi shrine
Birgi: appointed shrine days
The shrine identifies additional recurring feast and apparition dates for a plenary indulgence.
Time required Variable: a devout visit/pilgrimage and the prescribed prayers.
- When
- 13th of each month May–October; 1 January, 25 March, 15 August, 8 December; dedication anniversary on 19 June; liturgical memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
- Where
- Shrine church of Our Lady of Fatima, Birgi Nivaloro, Marsala, Diocese of Mazara del Vallo, Italy.
- Who
- All eligible faithful visiting this shrine on the appointed occasion.
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Visit the shrine on one of its listed days.
- During the visit, pray the Our Father and the Creed (Norm 19).
- Fulfill the usual plenary conditions: confession, Holy Communion, prayer for the Pope’s intentions, and complete detachment from every 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.
Pilgrimage and prayer
Duration varies
Variable; no fixed number of minutes is prescribed.
No fixed minimum number of minutes is stated. Complete the visit or pilgrimage required by this particular route and pray the Our Father and Creed. The shrine’s dates are eligibility restrictions, not a timed stay; no number of minutes is stated.
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
Occasion and source notes
Observe lawful liturgical transfers. The Immaculate Heart date uses the ordinary Roman calendar. Annunciation, St Joseph and Immaculate Conception use standard Roman transfer rules where listed. The applicable local or proper calendar, lawful external solemnity and any specific indult govern the actual observance. For the dated church or oratory visit, Norm 14 permits the visit from noon on the preceding day until midnight ending the observance. Follow the actual local observance and access hours; any required celebration, membership and frequency limits still apply.
The shrine presents this as a recurring concession of the Apostolic Penitentiary. Its full rescript and original date were not available in the consulted page; the current institutional guidance is the authority used here.
Prayer texts and resources
Follow the prayer count and formula specified in the requirements. The two Creed readers are alternatives.
Source and exact reference
- Birgi shrine: current indulgence guidanceLe indulgenze al Santuario: annual days, pilgrimage route and usual conditions.
- Enchiridion Indulgentiarum: general conditionsNorms 19–20: Our Father and Creed for a plenary-indulgenced church visit; usual plenary conditions.; Norm 14 (preceding-noon window for dated church/oratory visits)
- Bishop of Mazara del Vallo: Birgi shrine erection decree13 May 2014, Prot. 149/14 c, paragraph 2: expressly identifies the shrine church and its solemn dedication on 19 June 2009. Used to establish the church venue for Norms 14 and 19; this erection decree is not itself the Penitentiary indulgence rescript.
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.