New-York tribune., 1901-06-16
JUBILEE PlLGRiMAGES.
THEY ARE MADE NOW BY THOSE ROMAN
lists WHO COULD NOT GO TO
ROME LAST YEAR.

Almost every Sunday in the last few months
Iore professions of silent men and women have
marched through the streets in different parts of
the citv with black eowned priests leading the
wav These professions go from church TO
church remaining a short time in each one for
PRAYER and devotion. Roman Catholic Pilgrim
ages are by means uncommon. ana the pro-
cessions have attracted little attention. THESE
particular pilgrmages are far from ordlhary'
however as this is the grand jubilee year pro-
claimed by Pope Leo XIII. for the beneht OF
those who could not go to Rome last year Tnere
will not be another sacred year of this kino
until 1925. and the fact that several hundreo--
thousand people in this city alone are making
pilsrimages shows that the Catholics appreci-
ate il.
When the Pope extended the pilgrimage privI-
leee TO Christendom for the year 1901, Arch
bishop Corrigan announced that the pilgrimage
period in the Diocese of New-York would be from
the first Sunday in February to the first Sunday
i'm Ausust In the course Of these months each
Roman Catholic in good standing is supposed 10
visit four different churches each day for hfteeh
davs IL the exercises Of the jubilee are per-
formed individually. When congregations OF So
eieties led by their pastors make the piIerimases
I'm n body the number OF required visits is d.
mjnished The visits must be supplemented ey
communion and confession
Those who complete their piigrimages i'lth-
fully receive what the priests call a pienary H.
,1uyeenee This is described in the jubilee man
uaI as remission of all temporal sin after the
guilt and eternal punishment has been rernit'ed
by sacrament and penance. Speclai laclIl'ieS
have been granted TO jubilee confessors 10 eiear
marriages which the Catholic Church considers
null and void because contracted without pre-
vious dispensation-
aS covered
city made ii necessary to a special order
from the Pope for three sets Of jubilee churches,
or twelve in all. The uptown churches are 81
Joseph's. ManhattanvilIe; ST. PauFs, Harlen'
ST Thomas the Apostles. and ST Ceciiias- ror
the central section. the Cathedral. St faui the
ApostIe's Holy Innocents and Holy Name. For
the lower part ST. Peters. ST. Patricks, ST. Al
phonsus's and St Francis Xaviers-
The Catholic Church finds Seripturai basis for
the jubilee year celebration in Leviticus NV
The traditions of the Church say that tow
ard the close of the thirteenth century an
aged man from Bologna appeared before Pope
Boniface VIII and declared that his deceased
father had told him to go TO Rome in the year
I::tu in order 10 benefit by the plenary indul-
gences which were to be granted there as had
been done in the year l2,~. The testimony was
supported by that Of two Frenchmen from Beau
vais Pilgrims hocked Rome by thousands.
and Boniface issued the first known Bull OF the
Grand Jubilee
Clement vi decided that a century was too
long To wait for a recurrence of the jubilee. and
in l:sis announced that there would be another
in l:;.rl Urban V increased the number of juhi-
lees by setting aside each thirty-third year IL
was Paul II who finally established near the
end Of the fifteenth century, the twenty -hve-year
rule which is now in force. The extension or
the benefit of the jubilee beyond the city OF
Rome was established by the Popes of the sew
enfeenth century Occasionally eXtraOrdi-
nary jubilee has been granted in the period be-
tween one regular jubilee and another.