Holy year

A Holy year or Jubilé is, in the Roman Catholic church, an ordinary celebration taking seat every 25 years. During this year, the plenary Indulgence is granted to certain conditions: confession, sacramental communion, alms or other good works and the Pilgrimage of Rome which will imply the visit of the major basilicas. These conditions are generally specified in the bubble of indiction promulgated by the pope who also fixes the dates of opening and Holy year closure. The Holy year is thus a time of conversion, penitence, forgiveness and remission of the temporal sorrows incurred for the sin. It is also, consequently, a year jubilation and of thanksgiving.

At the time of the Holy year, the Holy Porte of each of the four major basilicas of Rome is solemnly open. The Holy year draws its symbolism in the Jewish Jubilé , prescribed every 50 years by the commands of the Lévitique (25: 8-55). This year the Jews celebrated their release of the exile of Babylon by the handing-over of the debts and the stamping from the slaves.

To the 20th century, Black and white XI and Jean-Paul II added to the ordinary holy years of the extraordinary holy years, celebrated respectively in 1933 and 1983 to celebrate the death and the resurrection of Jesus-Christ, therefore the Redemption of mankind.

The first catholic jubilee

The first jubilee formally organized by papacy was that issued in 1300 by the pope Boniface VIII. At that time, of the rumors ran according to which a general Indulgence was granted every hundred years. The word of “jubilee” was already in the air of time. The Dominican Humbert de Romans, in a sermon of 1267, declared as follows: “Here now the jubilee, not that of the Jews but of the Christians, so better. ” In the same way, in the Chronic of Albéric of Three-Fountains, the word was used to indicate the Croisade Innocent III against the Albigensian.

The February 22nd 1300, festival of the pulpit of Pierre saint, Boniface VIII promulgated the bubble indiction Antiquorum fida relatio . It there instituted the holy year and specified the conditions of indulgence: to be in a state of grace (renouncement of the sin) (after Confession and discharge), to have visited the Basilica S of Rome. The figures given by the medieval chroniclers are apparently extravagant: they spread out of 200.000 people to two million. Dante foot-note nevertheless that the density of crowd obliged to arrange an one way on the bridge Saint-Angel, close to the the Vatican.

List holy years

  1. 1300 : Boniface VIII

  2. 1350: Clement VI
  3. 1390: issued by Urbain VI, chaired by Boniface IX
  4. 1400: Boniface IX
  5. 1425 : Martin V
  6. 1450: Nicolas V
  7. 1475: issued by Paul II, chaired by Sixth IV
  8. 1500: Alexandre VI
  9. 1525: Clement VII
  10. 1550: issued by Paul III, chaired by Jules III
  11. 1575: Gregoire XIII
  12. 1600: Clement VIII
  13. 1625: Urbain VIII
  14. 1650: Innocent X
  15. 1675: Clement X
  16. 1700: issued by Innocent XII, chaired by Clement XI
  17. 1725: Benoit XIII
  18. 1750: Benoit XIV
  19. 1775: issued by Clement XIV, chaired by Black and white VI
  20. 1825: Leon XII
  21. 1875: Black and white IX (without much solemnity)
  22. 1900: Leon XIII
  23. 1925: Black and white XI
  24. 1933: Magpie XI
  25. 1950: Pie XII
  26. 1975: Paul VI
  27. 1983: Jean-Paul II
  28. 2000: Jean-Paul II

See too

External bonds

  • Great Jubilee of the year 2000

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