Holy See, 2011: permanent privilege reported by the shrine’s rector
Montignoso: appointed pilgrimage days
The shrine’s permanent privilege adds recurring days for individual pilgrims to pray at Our Lady of Fatima in Montignoso.
Time required Variable: a devout visit/pilgrimage and the prescribed prayers.
- When
- 13 May, 13 June, 13 July, 13 August, 13 September, 13 October; Assumption (15 August) and Immaculate Conception (8 December).
- Where
- Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima, Montignoso, Gambassi Terme, Diocese of Volterra, Italy.
- Who
- Eligible faithful making the pilgrimage and visit on these days.
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Make a pilgrimage to this shrine and pray there on an appointed day.
- 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.
Timing sources
- Montignoso shrine: current history and indulgence guidanceChi siamo: annual dates for individuals; any-day route expressly restricted to pilgrim groups.
- Fátima — Light and Peace: report by Montignoso’s rector13 November 2011, p.7: Fr Michael Tumbarello expressly reports the permanent Holy See privilege.
- Enchiridion Indulgentiarum: general conditionsNorms 19–20: Our Father and Creed for a plenary-indulgenced church visit; usual plenary conditions.
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 local liturgical transfers. 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.
Permanent character is explicit in the rector’s 2011 report and the dates remain on the shrine’s current site. The full rescript has not been located; these institutional accounts are the evidence consulted.
The shrine also confirms any-day group pilgrimages, already represented by the approved-shrine group-pilgrimage route in Enchiridion Grant 33.
Prayer texts and resources
Follow the prayer count and formula specified in the requirements. The two Creed readers are alternatives.
Source and exact reference
- Montignoso shrine: current history and indulgence guidanceChi siamo: annual dates for individuals; any-day route expressly restricted to pilgrim groups.
- Fátima — Light and Peace: report by Montignoso’s rector13 November 2011, p.7: Fr Michael Tumbarello expressly reports the permanent Holy See privilege.
- 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)
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.