Constantinian Order: admission and two annual feasts

Make or renew the statutory promise on actual admission, Saint George’s feast or the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

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

When: Actual reception into the Order; 23 April; 14 September, during the renewed term.
Where: Wherever the eligible member makes or renews the statutory promise on a qualifying occasion.
Who: Actual Knights and Dames of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George under the Duke of Castro, the institution identified in this concession. This entry does not establish eligibility for another chivalric body or similarly named branch.
Application: Self or the departed

The prescribed work

Be an actual eligible Knight or Dame of this Order.
Make or renew, at least privately, the promise faithfully to observe the Order’s statutes.
Do so on the day of reception into the Order, 23 April (Saint George) or 14 September (Exaltation of the Holy Cross).
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 reception into the Order 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: 23 May 2023
Editorial review due: 10 May 2030. This is not a legal expiry date.

Occasion and source notes

These are the dates expressly listed in the institutional decree translation; follow any competent directions for the Order’s lawful liturgical observance.

The signed 23 May 2023 Latin rescript renews the 10 May 2016 concession for another seven years. A conservative review checkpoint is set for 10 May 2030, without claiming a precise inclusive expiry date. The current institutional publication supplies the full member-work directions; its prose incorrectly calls the older decree 20 May, while the signed renewal identifies 10 May. The death provision refers to universal Manual concession 12 and is not treated as a separate exemption.

Source and exact reference

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