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Religious of both sexes of every order and institute are able, on fulfilling the works enjoined, to gain the above Indulgences, since all, a very few excepted, are granted to persons in every state of life.

Moreover Pope Paul V., by his universal Brief, May 23, 1606, commencing Romanus Pontifex, after revoking all and every Indulgence (not including, however, the Indulgences annexed to churches, as the S. Congr. of Indulgences declared, Sept 7, 1607, and the S. Congr. of Bishops and Regulars, Aug. 21, 1615) previously granted to the Regular orders of both sexes being religious of any denomination whatsoever, and having taken the three solemn vows according to the declaration of the S. Congr. of Indulgences of May 8, 1713; and April 23, 1714,—granted anew for ever the following Indulgences to the religious of every order, whether monastic or mendicant, and to the nuns of every approved rule living under the three solemn vows in perpetual cloister, viz.:

i. to all the faithful of both sexes who, in accordance with the Apostolical Constitutions, wear the religious habit for the purpose of professing that Regular Institute which they have chosen; to be gained on the first day of their entrance into religion, or on the day of their clothing, on condition of their being truly penitent for their sins and having Confessed and Communicated.

ii. to every novice, male and female, on the day of their making their religious profession, after having finished the year of their clothing, on condition of their being truly penitent, having Confessed and Communicated.

(With regard to nuns. Pope Benedict XIII., by a Brief (universal and perpetual), In supremo, of April 11, 1728, granted afresh, on the same conditions as above, on the day of their veiling, benediction, or consecration, the same as if it were their religious profession.)

iii. to every religious of both sexes, as above, who, having Confessed, shall Communicate