7 years and 7 forty days.—For assisting at the Procession on the first Sunday of the month.

Plenary.—TOTIES QUOTIES. ROSARY SUNDAY. Confession, Communion, visit to the Chapel of the Rosary, or to the Statue of Our Lady, if exposed to veneration in another part of the Church, in honor of the victory of Lepanto gained by the prayers of the Rosary. This Plenary Indulgence may be gained EACH TIME the visit is repeated, from the first Vespers of the feast (that is, from about 1 o'clock on Saturday afternoon) until midnight of Rosary Sunday. During the visits prayers must be said for the Holy Father's intentions. The confession may be made on the Friday or Saturday before Rosary Sunday. (St. Pius V.)

Plenary.—On Corpus Christi, on the feast of the Patron Saint of the Church, and on any day within the Octave of Rosary Sunday: Confession, Communion, visit to the Chapel or Image (as above), with prayers for the Holy Father's intentions.

Note.—All the above Indulgences, except that for the hour of death, can be applied to the Holy Souls.

ADDITIONAL INDULGENCES TO ALL THE FAITHFUL.

Plenary.—Once a year, for Five Mysteries every day, using a Rosary blessed by a Dominican, or by a Priest who has the faculty: Confession and Communion.

100 days for each "Our Father" and each "Hail Mary," when saying the entire Rosary, or Five Mysteries on a Rosary blessed as above. (Raccolta, 194.)

5 years and 5 forty days for every Five Mysteries or a third part of the Rosary. (Raccolta.)

10 years and 10 forty days, once a day, for saying Five Mysteries with others, either at home or in Church, or in a public or private Chapel. (Raccolta.)

Plenary.—Last Sunday of each month, for Five Mysteries three times a week as in the preceding: Confession, Communion, visit any Church or public Chapel, with prayers for the Pope's intentions.

Plenary.—On any one of fifteen consecutive Saturdays, for Five Mysteries or other devotions to the Mysteries of the Rosary: Confession, Communion each Saturday, or on Sundays, if prevented on Saturdays.

7 years and 7 forty days for the same on the other Saturdays.

Plenary.—For any devout Novena of approved prayers in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary: Contrition, Confession, Communion, prayers for the Pope's intentions on any day within the Novena or within eight days after.

300 days on all other days of the above Novena.

FOR OCTOBER DEVOTIONS.

Plenary.—On Rosary Sunday, or any day within the Octave: Confession, Communion, visit to a Church, with prayers for the Pope's intentions; and provided Five Mysteries are said on the feast and on every day during the Octave, either publicly in a Church or in private.

Plenary.—For Five Mysteries, either publicly or in private, on any ten days of October (after the Octave of the Rosary): Confession, Communion, visit to a Church, and there pray for the Pope's intentions, on any day at choice.

7 years and 7 forty days every day in October for Five Mysteries either in Church or in private.

Note.—All these additional Indulgences are applicable to the Holy Souls.

The above is an exact Summary of Rosary Indulgences as given in the Index of Indulgences, approved by Pope Leo XIII, at an audience granted August 29, 1899.

Since the list just given was approved by Pope Leo XIII, his successor Pope Pius X, added, or rather renewed, an Indulgence formerly granted by Pope Innocent VIII., viz., that of 100 years and as many forty days daily to members of the Rosary Confraternity who carry their Rosary beads about with them (July 31, 1906).

A further concession was made by Pope Pius X. (October 13, 1906). To gain the Indulgences attached to the Rosary it is no longer necessary to say the Five Mysteries at one time. They may be separated, and a single Mystery may be said at a time.

CONDITIONS FOR GAINING THE INDULGENCES.

1. The contrition mentioned as required for the gaining of an Indulgence is not an actual condition, but only a necessary disposition, and indicated merely that the recipient must be in the state of grace.

2. Weekly Confession, when habitual, suffices for gaining all the Indulgences, Plenary and Partial, obtainable within the week.

3. One Communion suffices to gain many plenary Indulgences.

4. Communion on Saturday, or on the Vigil of a feast, suffices, provided the other conditions prescribed be performed on the Sunday or feast following.

5. Those unable to receive Holy Communion at the hour of death can gain the Plenary Indulgence in which the condition of Communion is required, by invoking the sacred name of JESUS, at least in heart when they can not do so by word.

6. The visit to the Church, etc., can be made either before or after Communion.

7. The prayers offered in the Indulgenced Church at the time of Mass or Communion suffice for the visit.

8. The Chapels of Convents, Workhouses, Seminaries, etc., may be looked on as public Oratories in favor of those living in them.

9. The Rosary or other prayers prescribed for gaining the above Indulgences need not be said kneeling.

10. The Indulgences granted to members of the Rosary Confraternity are not suspended during the solemn year of the Jubilee, unless special mention of this fact be made in the Papal Bull proclaiming the Jubilee Indulgence.

11. Religious and others who live in colleges, seminaries and schools, and all who live in institutions where they are not free to go out, provided they are members of the Confraternity, may gain the Indulgences for which a visit to the Rosary Chapel or Altar is prescribed, by visiting their own Church or Chapel if they fulfill the others conditions as well.

12. Sick members who can not receive Holy Communion can have that obligation, where prescribed, commuted into some other good work by their confessor, if they go to confession and fulfill the other conditions.

SUMMARY OF INDULGENCES OF DOMINICAN BEADS.

(485 years and 50 days of Indulgences.)

CONCLUSION.

We will end with the words of Pope Leo XIII, the venerable and zealous Apostle of the Rosary in the nineteenth century. Speaking to the rulers of the Church, the Pope says: "For these reasons the Roman Pontiffs have ever given the highest praise to this Sodality of our Lady. Innocent VII called it 'a most devout Confraternity.' Pius V declared that by its virtue 'Christians began suddenly to be transformed into other men, the darkness of heresy to be dispelled, and the light of Catholic faith to shine forth.' We also, Venerable Brethren, moved by the example of our predecessors, earnestly exhort and conjure you, as we have often done, to devote special care to this sacred warfare, so that by your efforts fresh forces may be daily enrolled on every side. Through you and those of your clergy who have the care of souls, let the people know and duly appreciate the efficacy of this Sodality and its usefulness for man's salvation." To the faithful laity the Pontiff's fatherly words are no less strong: "For this reason do we exhort all Christians to give themselves to the daily recital of this pious devotion either in public or privately in the home or family of each. We believe it to be in the designs of Providence that, in these times of trials for the Church, the ancient devotion to the august Virgin should live and flourish.

"May the Christian people, excited by our exhortations and inflamed by your appeals, now seek the protection of Mary with an ardor growing greater day by day. Let them betake themselves more and more to the protection of Mary, and trust in Her. Let them cling more and more to the practice of the Rosary, to which our ancestors had recourse as an ever-ready refuge in misfortune, and as a glorious pledge and proof of Christian faith and devotion.

"The heavenly Patroness of the human race will receive with joy these prayers and supplications, and will easily obtain that the good grow in goodness, and that the erring repent and be brought back to salvation; that God, who is the avenger of crime, moved to compassion and mercy, shall deliver Christendom and civil society from their present dangers, and restore to them that peace which is so much desired.

"Encouraged by this hope, we beseech God Himself, with the earnest desire of our heart, to grant you, Venerable Brethren, every gift of heavenly blessing, through Her in whom He has placed the fullness of all grace."

Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary, September, 1915.