F. ANTONIUS MARIA CARD. PANEBIANCO PRAEFECTUS.

_A. Colombo Secretarius._

II. In order to gain the indulgence of the privileged altar, it is

required to say a _Requiem_ Mass with black vestments as often as the

Rubrics permit. Sometimes this cannot be done; for example, during

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, or when the Mass is to be said

in a church where the station is held, or where some Feast is being

celebrated. No account of such days having been taken in the General

Decrees, the doubt was raised whether in such cases the indulgence of

the privileged altar could be gained without saying a _Requiem_ Mass.

The following General Decree of the Sacred Congregation of Indulgences,

dated April 11, 1864, settles the point:

DECRETUM.--_Urbis et Orbis._ Quamplures Romani Cleri

Sacerdotes, ac praesertim Animarum Curatores dubium huic Sacrae

Congregationi Indulgentiis Sacrisque Reliquiis praepositae

enodandum proposuerunt: Utrum, scilicet, Sacerdos, celebrans

in Altari Privilegiato legendo Missam de Festo Semiduplici,

Simplici, Votivam, vel de Feria non privilegiata sive ratione

expositionis Sanctissimi Sacramenti, sive Stationis Ecclesiae,

vel alterius Solemnitatis, aut ex rationabili motivo fruatur

privilegio ac si legeret Missam de Requie per Rubricas eo dic

permissam?

Sacra itaque Congregatio, quae habita fuit apud Vaticanas

aedes die 29 Februarii, 1864, auditis Consultorum Votis,

respondendum esse duxit _Affirmative, deletis tamen verbis_

"aut ex rationabili motivo" _et facto verbo cum Sanctissimo_.

Facta insuper per me infrascriptum ejusdem S. Congregationis

Secretarium Sanctissimo Domino nostro relatione in Audientia

diei 11 Aprilis ejusdem anni Sanctitas Sua Eminentissimorum

Patrum sententiam benigne confirmavit.

Datum Romae ex Secretaria ipsius S. Congregationis

Indulgentiarum die 11 Aprilis, 1864.

F. ANTONIUS MARIA CARD. PANEBIANCO Praefectus.

_A. Colombo Secretarius._