St Anthony of Padua Archconfraternity: reception and seven feasts

Enrolled members make or renew their statutory promise on the listed occasions.

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Time required Private renewal: about 1–5 minutes (estimate); admission or other rites vary.

When: Reception; Annunciation (25 March); Immaculate Conception (8 December); Assumption (15 August); St Anthony (13 June); translation of his relics (15 February); St Francis (4 October); St Francis’s stigmata (17 September).
Where: No additional place is prescribed by this membership rescript.
Who: Actual members of the Padua Archconfraternity or a properly aggregated confraternity receiving this privilege; devotion to St Anthony alone is not enrollment.
Application: Self or the departed

The prescribed work

Be duly enrolled in this Archconfraternity, or in an affiliated confraternity whose formal aggregation communicates these indulgences.
Make or renew, at least privately, the promise to observe the proper statutes faithfully.
Fulfill the usual plenary conditions, including complete detachment from 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 Archconfraternity reception 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.

Timing sources

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.

Timing sources

What the time estimate excludes

Ordinary travel and waiting; a pilgrimage itself remains part of the work where required.
Separate fulfillment of the usual plenary conditions, except prayers or Mass expressly included in the branch.

Stated start: 20 January 2003

Occasion and source notes

Dates are expressly named in the rescript; observe any lawful transfer in the applicable 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.

Source and exact reference

Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.