"Quoniam autem facile continget ut aliqui ex praedictis Christifidelibus, ex hac vita decedant, quin Ecclesiae Sacramentis fuerint muniti, et absque Sacerdotis cujuslibet assistentia; ideo Sanctitas Sua, de uberi apostolicae benignitatis fonte, etiam illis plenariam Indulgentiam elargitur, si contriti nomen Jesu, corde saltem, invocaverint, et mortem de manu Domini, eâ quâ decet, christianâ animi demissione, et spiritus humilitate susceperint, animamque in manus Creatoris sui commendaverint. Quae prostrema Decreti pars ut Christifidelibus omnibus innotescat, eam in suis dioecesibus, ac missionibus, Antistites, et Superiores memorati identidem, et praesertim sanctae Visitationis tempore publicare curent et satagant. "Datum ex aedibus Sac. Congregationis praedictae, die 5 Aprilis, 1772. "Stephanus Borgia, Secretarius". II. THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS FOR THE SICK. The Holy See has long since granted to the general, the provincials and guardians of the Franciscan order, the faculty of blessing crucifixes, to enable sick persons, prisoners, and others, unable for lawful reasons to make the stations of the cross, to gain all the indulgences of the said stations. Such persons have only to recite twenty times, the _Pater_, _Ave_, and _Gloria_, before the cross thus blessed, and which they are required to hold in their hands during these prayers. Pius IX. in the following brief extends this faculty to those who in the Franciscan convents take the place of the guardians, when these latter for any reason are called away from home.