Sentence examples for plenary indulgence from inspiring English sources

There is a limit of one plenary indulgence per sinner per day.

A plenary indulgence cost 25 pieces of gold for a king, 10 for a nobleman, 3 for a merchant.

Most Catholics in this country, if you tell them they can get a plenary indulgence, will shrug their shoulders".

Its text is a plenary indulgence granted by Nicholas V for contributors to the defense of Cyprus against Turkish siege.

One of the earliest examples of this practice was Pope Urban II's grant of a plenary indulgence to the knights of the First Crusade.

"The plenary indulgence will be granted if they dedicate a sufficient amount of time to the corporal or spiritual works of mercy," Vatican radio said.

Church officials paid for cathedrals by offering plenary indulgences covering all sins.

Since the first Jubilee in 1300, popes have granted plenary indulgences to pilgrims who visit holy sites in Rome.

But the offers have increased markedly under his successor, Pope Benedict, who has made plenary indulgences part of church anniversary celebrations nine times in the last three years.

But mainly, it has gone over the heads of a vast generation of Roman Catholics who have no idea what it means: "Bishop Announces Plenary Indulgences".

According to a Vatican statement, young Catholics who take part in confession and communion during the jubilee of devotion will receive full, or plenary, indulgences.