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Rh emiəs, and in country places, where the Holy Sacrifice is usually offered up for the people.

One visit to all the three Churches above named, or two visits to any one of them, or to one of the others mentioned above, with prayers offered up at each visit, according to the intentions of the Sovereign Pontiff, "for some space of time," will be required as a condition for gaining the Indulgence. These intentions are: 1st, the preservation and protection of the Pontiff himself; 2d, the extension of the faith, and the prosperity of the Holy Catholic Church: 3d, the conversion of sinners and of those in error; 4th, peace among Christian princes, rulers, and peoples. No particular form of prayer is prescribed, but for those who cannot conveniently read the prayers indicated in the small Manual for the Jubilee, the fervent recitation of five Our Fathers and five Hail Marys will suffice. The other conditions for gaining the Indulgence are the following:—

1. A good confession and communion; but for children who have not made their first communion, and who cannot be conveniently prepared for it, a good confession with absolution will be sufficient.

.22. [sic] Fasting on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday of one week during the month assigned. Those who are unable to fast, may have this condition commuted by their confessor into some other good work.

3. The bestowal of some alms on the poor, "as each one's devotion may suggest." This condition may also be commuted by the confessor in favor of the poor, while in religious houses the superior may bestow the alms for the entire community, and in families parents for their children and servants.

It is Our wish, that the alms thus collected throughout the Archdiocese be divided by the respective Pastors into two equal parts, one of which he will apply to local charities, and the other he will remit to Our Secretary, to constitute the beginning of a fund for erecting a Diocesan Reformatory for Boys near Baltimore, a charity very much needed, if we would save our poor children, in body and in soul.