Apostolic Penitentiary, 3 April 2023
Orito shrine: May and Marian summer pilgrimage
Make the prescribed pilgrimage to the diocesan shrine of Our Lady of Orito and Saint Paschal Baylon, with its sacred rites or suitable prayer before the exposed Marian image.
Time required Variable: prescribed pilgrimage with worship or suitable contemplation
- When
- Every day in May, and 15 August through 8 September, within the concession’s term
- Where
- Diocesan shrine of Nuestra Señora de Orito y San Pascual Bailón, Monforte del Cid, Alicante, Spain
- Who
- All eligible faithful making the prescribed pilgrimage on the qualifying occasion
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Visit the designated shrine devoutly in the form of a pilgrimage on the qualifying occasion.
- There either participate in the sacred celebrations, or spend a suitable period in pious contemplation before the image of Our Lady of Orito exposed for public veneration.
- Conclude the contemplation alternative with the Our Father, Creed and invocations of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Paschal Baylon.
- With true repentance, fulfil 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.
Pilgrimage with the sacred celebration
Complete the prescribed event
Time for the pilgrimage and participation in the sacred celebration
No numerical minimum is prescribed. Include the required pilgrimage and actual participation in the sacred celebration.
Pilgrimage with suitable contemplation before the Marian image
Duration varies
Time for the pilgrimage and suitable contemplation with prayers
No number of minutes is prescribed for the suitable period. Include the required pilgrimage, contemplation before the publicly exposed image and concluding prayers.
What the time estimate excludes
- Ordinary travel to and from the venue, and waiting outside the prescribed work
- Preparation and separately fulfilled sacramental conditions
- Stated start
- 3 April 2023
- Stated end
- 3 April 2030
Occasion and source notes
The signed decree expressly grants seven years from its date of 3 April 2023. Its rites/prayer work applies to all the listed qualifying occasions. This shrine concession is distinct from Casa Betania’s 2026–2027 jubilee.
Prayer texts and resources
Follow the prayer count and formula specified in the requirements. The two Creed readers are alternatives.
Source and exact reference
- Orito shrine: signed Latin Apostolic Penitentiary decree3 April 2023, Prot.01379/2023–310/23/I; seven-year concession
- Orito shrine: Spanish translation and current local directionsDecree images and instructions linked on the shrine’s institutional page
- Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, fourth editionNorm 19: the ordinary church/oratory visit rule expressly yields when the particular concession prescribes otherwise.
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.