Chapter 5

On partial indulgences

(1) For each of the Tertiaries of either gender, if they have frequented a church or oratory, in which the seat of the sodality has been established, and have supplicated God on behalf of the safety of Christendom on that day the sacred Stigmata were divinely impressed upon (their) Father Francis, likewise on the feast of the saints King Louis, Elisabeth Queen of Portugal, Elisabeth of Hungary, Margaret of Cortona, and likewise on (any) other twelve days, which each prefers and the Prefect of the Order has approved, let this supplication be as seven years and seven times 40 days of satisfaction.

(2) As often as the are present at Mass or the other divine offices, or at the public or private meetings of the members: (when) they have received the needy with hospitality: have reconciled disagreements, or have taken care to reconcile them: have processed in a procession rightly led: have accompanied the August Sacrament, when It is borne about, or, if they were unable to accompany, have, at the sound of the bell, recited the Lord’s Prayer with the Angelic Salutation one time: have recited fifteen times the prayer and same salutation for Christendom, or for the souls of the deceased members, to commend them to God: have buried the dead: have returned anyone deviating from their duty: have instructed anyone at all in the precepts of God and the other things necessary for salvation: or have done anything of this kind to anyone, for each and every one of these things, for the reason of each of these things, let one be allowed to expunge thirty days of punishment. Let it be allowed to the Tertiaries, if they prefer, each and all the above said indulgences, whether plenary or partial, to expiate the faults and punishments of the deceased.