On each of the four Sundays in Advent. On the Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, of the four _Temporas_ in the year (the beginning of each of the four seasons of the year). On the three Rogation days in May. On the eve of the Nativity of our Lord, and at each of its three masses. On the days of St Stephen, St John the Evangelist, and the Holy Innocents. On the day of our Lord’s Circumcision, and on that of the Epiphany. On the Sundays of Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima. On all the days in Lent. On the first eight days after the Resurrection. On the Feast of St Mark. On the day of our Lord’s Ascension. On the eve of the day of Pentecost. On the six days following Pentecost. Days on which a soul may be drawn out of Purgatory, + On Septuagesima Sunday. + On the Tuesday after the first Sunday in Lent. + On the Saturday after the second Sunday in Lent. + On the third and fourth Sundays in Lent. + On the Friday and Saturday before the fifth Sunday in Lent. + On the Wednesday of the octave of the Resurrection. + On the Tuesday and Saturday of the octave of Pentecost. (Signed) * D. MANUEL LOPEZ SANTAELLA. [SEAL.] Madrid: Press of the Holy Crusade. In numerous families the tax of those bulls is very heavy, for the master or mistress is bound to purchase a copy for each member residing under the roof, including all the servants. Within the last three years, the office of commissary-general of the Crusade has been abolished, and the collection of the funds arising from this source has devolved on the bishops of the respective dioceses. Besides fasting, there are other acts of penance and mortification practised by the truly devout, and some of these have already been noticed in former chapters. The _disciplina_ (whipping) was the most in use when Roman Catholicism flourished in Spain without a rival. It was very common, in the processions of Holy Week, to see penitents with their shoulders naked, whipping themselves in public with so much severity as to cause them to be literally covered with blood. We know a town in Andalusia in which this is encouraged by the clergy; but in that place the penitents receive money in exchange for the floggings which they inflict on themselves, and which sometimes have laid the foundation of bodily complaints that have terminated in the death of the victims. Some penitents make a vow to go, with naked feet, and even on their knees, from their houses to a certain sanctuary; others wear _cilicios_ (hair-shirts) or girdles around their bodies; these practices, however, are now almost entirely abolished, and are observed only in some of the few convents of the religious orders remaining in the present day.