Item,—That during the said year of publication, they being in the
said Spanish territory (but not out of it), may eat meat, by the
advice both of their spiritual and corporal physicians, in all times
of fasting throughout the year, even those in Lent, and in the same
way, at their own free will, eat eggs and _lacticinios_ (any thing
made up with milk), so that it is understood the obligation to fast
will be satisfied by those who eat meat, as much as it will be by
those who strictly observe the form of fasting. In which pardon are
comprehended the religious persons of all military orders, but
excepting from it all patriarchs, archbishops, bishops, inferior
prelates, regular ecclesiastics, and secular presbyters, who may not
have attained sixty years of age, and, out of Lent, all of them may
have recourse to such pardon in respect of eating eggs and
_lacticinios_.
Item,—As to the faithful who contribute their alms in form aforesaid,
and who, in order to implore the divine aid for the ends above
expressed, shall fast voluntarily on days not appointed as fast-days,
or, being lawfully hindered from fasting, shall do some other pious
work at the free-will of their confessor or parish priest, and pray
to God for those ends; as often as they shall do so, so often shall
they be released and freed mercifully by the Lord for fifteen years
and fifteen times forty days from the penance imposed on them owing
to whatever cause, and shall, besides, be made partakers of all the
prayers, alms, pilgrimages (even those to Jerusalem), and of all
other good works done in the church militant, and by every one of its
members.
Item,—Those who devoutly visit, on each one of the days of the
_Estaciones_ of Rome, five churches or altars, or in default of such
five, five times the same altar, and pray to God for the expressed
ends, shall obtain a plenary indulgence, as well for themselves as
also, by way of suffrage, for the deceased persons in whose favour
they make such visit and prayer.
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