Benedict XIV. treats at great length of this important matter in a Bull which commences "Pia mater", published on the 5th April, 1747. To each bishop who has once obtained from the Holy See the privilege of imparting indulgences _in articulo mortis_, he grants the power of communicating the same faculty to such priests subject to his jurisdiction as he may desire. In a rescript of the Propaganda, dated 5th April, 1772, Clement XIV. extends that privilege very considerably for all countries where Catholics live mixed up with persons of other religious denominations; and when it happens that no priest can be found to grant the indulgence in the usual form, his Holiness, in the abundance of his charity, grants a plenary indulgence to all who invoke the holy name of Jesus at least in their heart, and who with Christian humility and resignation receive death from the hand of God, commending their souls into the hands of their Creator. In order that the valuable privilege granted to the prelates of the Church and to the faithful in general may be known to all, we publish the rescript of Clement XIV., as it is found in Dr. Burke's _Hibernia Dominicana_, Appendix, page 936:-- "Ex Audientiâ Sanctissimi D. N. Clementis Papae XIV. habitâ 5 Aprilis 1772. "Ne Christifidelibus, inter Hereticos, et Infideles, in qualibet Orbis parte degentibus, et in ultimo vitae discrimine, constitutis, ea spiritualia auxilia desint, quae Catholica pia mater Ecclesia filiis suis a saecula recedentibus solet misericorditer impertiri: Sanctissimus Dominus Noster Clemens, divinâ Providentiâ Papa XIV., me infrascripto sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide Secretario referente, pro eximia caritate, quâ illos fraterne complectitur, omnibus et singulis RR. PP. DD. Patriarchis, Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, Vicariis Apostolicis, necnon RR. Praefectis seu Superioribus missionum tam Cleri Saecularis, quam Regularis, inter Infideles et Hereticos, ut supra, modo existentibus, seu quocumque tempore extituris peramanter concedit facultatem impertiendi benedictionem, cun Indulgentia plenaria fidelibus praedictis, ad extremum agonem redactis: Cum ea etiam extensione ut facultatem hujusmodi Sacerdotibus, et respectivè missionariis, eorum jurisdictioni subjectis, pro locis tamen suarum Dioceseum, vel pro missionum districtibus tantum, communicare possint et valeant: dummodo in hac benedictione impertienda servetur formula prescripta a San. Mem. Benedicto XIV. in Constitutione datâ 9 Aprilis, 1747, quae incipit _Pia mater_, inferius registranda.