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CONCESSION OF THE JUBILEE

YEAR “IN PERPETUUM”

BY SAINT JOHN PAUL II

PAENITENTIARIA APOSTOLICA
Apostolic Penitentiary
Prot. N. 2/98/1

MOST BLESSED FATHER,

Javier Azagra Labiano, Bishop of Cartagena in Spain, together with his clergy, the Brothers
of the Hermandad de la Santísima y Vera Cruz –Brotherhood of the Blessed and True Cross–, and
the rest of believers entrusted to his pastoral care, expresses ardent devotion to Your Holiness and
respectfully sets forth:
With the plea and perseverance of the Heads of the aforementioned Brotherhood, and once the
opinion of the Spanish Episcopal Conference has been sought, it has been determined for the
Diocese of Cartagena in Spain to celebrate a Jubilee Year every seven years, starting in the Year
2003, in the Sanctuary of the Blessed and True Cross of Caravaca, including special services and
different religious initiatives.
The highly renowned and old Sanctuary is most dearly beloved for the hearts of the
believers. Ardent devotion to the Blessed Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ was spread from there
around the world by preachers of the Gospel. In order that the Christian people may preserve this
devotion and strengthen it day by day, the Honourable Speaker respectfully implores to Your
Holiness the gift of a Plenary Indulgence for the devout believers who visit the aforementioned
Sanctuary.

And may God…
January 9, 1998

THE APOSTOLIC PENITENTIARY, by mandate of the Pope, gladly grants a Plenary
Indulgence, with perfect contrition and under the usual conditions (sacramental confession,
Eucharistic communion, and prayer for the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff), to be gained by the
Christian faithful who devoutly participate in any celebration in the Sanctuary of the Blessed and
True Cross of Caravaca or at least recite the Lord’s Prayer or the Creed:

1. On May 3rd, solemnly celebrated there, and September 14th, Festivity of Exaltation of
the Holy Cross.
2. Every time they devoutly make a group pilgrimage to the Sanctuary.
3. Once a year, on a day which can be freely chosen by the Christian faithful.

A Plenary Indulgence is also granted, in the usual manner, on the days when every seven
years the solemn Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Jubilee Year are celebrated and also on
those days of the same year when the Bishop presides over some solemn rite.

This granting is valid in perpetuity. Anything to the contrary notwithstanding.

+ Luis De Magistris Regent

N.M. Tedeschini Officer