Sandomierz diocesan visitation of the image of Divine Mercy, 2026–2027
Sandomierz: visit during the Divine Mercy image pilgrimage
Visit a parish church hosting the image and take part in the visitation rites or the prescribed prayer.
Time required A visitation celebration, or suitable prayer or Christian charity ending with the prescribed prayers
- When
- 12 April 2026–4 April 2027, in connection with the diocesan image visitation
- Where
- A parish church in the Diocese of Sandomierz, Poland, during its scheduled hosting of the Divine Mercy image
- Who
- All eligible faithful fulfilling the stated visitation work
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Be truly contrite and moved by charity, intend to gain the indulgence, and fulfil the ordinary plenary conditions.
- Visit a parish church in the Diocese of Sandomierz. The published local implementation directs visits to the church currently hosting the image.
- Either participate devoutly in the visitation celebrations, or spend a suitable time in prayer or another Christian work of charity.
- For the prayer alternative, pray for God’s glory and peace and concord among peoples, and against the errors of the present age; conclude with the Our Father, Creed and an invocation to Mary, Queen of Peace and Mother of Mercy.
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.
Visitation rite
Complete the prescribed event
Duration of the visitation celebration
No fixed number of minutes is prescribed; use the actual celebration.
Timing sources
- Holy Cross Shrine: full Polish republication of the Apostolic Penitentiary decree11 April 2026; term, parish-church work, concluding prayers and impeded alternative
- Bogoria parish: practical directions for the diocesan image visitationDirections specify the church currently hosting the image; used for the narrower local implementation
- Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski diocesan shrine: full Polish decree republication14 April 2026; corroborating full text
- Apostolic Penitentiary: Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, fourth editionNorm 19: the ordinary church/oratory visit rule expressly yields when the particular concession prescribes otherwise.
Prayer or Christian charity during the visit
Duration varies
A suitable time, followed by the prescribed concluding prayers
The source requires suitable time but gives no numerical minimum.
Timing sources
- Holy Cross Shrine: full Polish republication of the Apostolic Penitentiary decree11 April 2026; term, parish-church work, concluding prayers and impeded alternative
- Bogoria parish: practical directions for the diocesan image visitationDirections specify the church currently hosting the image; used for the narrower local implementation
- Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski diocesan shrine: full Polish decree republication14 April 2026; corroborating full text
- Apostolic Penitentiary: Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, fourth editionNorm 19: the ordinary church/oratory visit rule expressly yields when the particular concession prescribes otherwise.
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
- 12 April 2026
- Stated end
- 4 April 2027
Occasion and source notes
The full published translation speaks of parish churches during the visitation period; the parish implementation specifically directs the faithful to the church then hosting the image. This card presents that narrower documented opportunity.
Prayer texts and resources
Follow the prayer count and formula specified in the requirements. The two Creed readers are alternatives.
Source and exact reference
- Holy Cross Shrine: full Polish republication of the Apostolic Penitentiary decree11 April 2026; term, parish-church work, concluding prayers and impeded alternative
- Bogoria parish: practical directions for the diocesan image visitationDirections specify the church currently hosting the image; used for the narrower local implementation
- Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski diocesan shrine: full Polish decree republication14 April 2026; corroborating full text
- Apostolic Penitentiary: 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.