The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-07-21

OF THE SACRED CONGREGATION OF THE
PROPAGANDA, GIVING TO HIS GRACE, THE
MOST REV. ARCHBISHOP OF BALTIMORE,
THE FACULTY OF ERECTING THE CoNFRA-
TERNITY OF THE SACRED THIRST AND
AGONY OF JESUS AND THE DoLoRs OF
MARY TO REPREsS INTEMPERANCE.
Most Holy Fdther-Tbe Archbishop of
known to Your Holiness that there are in
several places of his diocese societies es-
/tabiished in honor of the Sacred Thirst and
Agony of our Lord Jesus Christ and the
Sorrow We of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the
repression of intemperance, and that the
members of these societies meet at stated
times to offer up prayers to God for that
object. And being fully convinced, that a
confraternity instituted and enriched with
ipdulgences, such as was erected 10 ireland
come years since, would tend greatly to
the attainment of this end, and to the con
sequent salvation of souls and progress of
religion in this country; he, therefore,
earnestly prays Your Holiness that he may
erect in the city of Baltimore, coufrater-
nifty in honor of the Sacred Thirst and
Agony of our Lord Jesus Christ and the
SorrOws of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the
repression of intemperance which shall be
enriched with the came indulgences as the
like society established in Dublin.
In an audience of the 81 at day of March,
1873, our Most Holy Father, by Divine
Providence, Pope Leo XIII, on the report
of the undersigned Secretary of the Con-
gregation of the Propaganda, granted to
the Archbishop of Baltimore, in answer to
his petition, the faculty of erecticg in that
city the aforesaid confraternity, under the
direction of a clergy man to be designated
by him, and of aggregating to this contra
teIuity, either by himself or through the
director, other temnerance sQcietiea,- with
the communication of all tia spiritual
tavUrs aud graces, on the cor Itiun, how
ever, that in TIE admissIon of mem bers
their names be Inscribed IN book kept for
that puTp,ec.
To ti,e conTraterLity thus erected His
HoHGese nae de,gned 10 grant the follow
iDg indu)geuces:
"a plenary indulgence on the day cf
enrolment, and on tho Feast Of the Most
Precious Blood, of the Holy Name aud of
the Five Wounds of our LDld, of the Most
Pure Heart, of the Seven Dulors and the
Anxilium Christian"rnm of the b essed
Virgin May, of the Patronage of St. Jo
seph, of St. George, of ST. Patrick, and of
st. Andrew, the Apostle ; provided that
the members, being truly penitent after
going to Confession and worthily receiving
the Holy Communion, visit a church of the
contrateTnlty and pray for some time for
the propagation of the Faith and for the
intention of the Sovereign Pontiff.
"An Indulgence of three years and three
quarantines as often as the prayers pre-
scTibed for members are recited (that is to
say, each time the Pater and three Aces
are said), and of seven years and of seven
qnarantines If these prayers are said in
common also an indulgence of 800 days
for each act of modification done for the
intentions of the confraternity besides an
Indulgence of 300 days for person who
induces another to become a member, and
if ten are thus prevailed on, of seven years
and seven quarantines; finally an indul-
geDce of 100 days for the ejaculation %
Lord Jesus, through Thy most Sacred
Thirst, save u.s."
Given at Rome, from the Propaganda, the
day and year az above,
j. b. AGNozZI, Secretary.
The Most Rev. Arch bishop has appointed
Very Rev. Edward McCoIgan Director of
the COnfraternity.-Balt Mirror