y may be able to celebrate it anew between themselves
(although it be secretly) for conscience' sake; and also, in order
that they may, after celebrating the matrimony, and contracting a
similar impediment, demand their conjugal rights; and we, earnestly
desiring the good of souls, authorise the confessors, in order that
(in the article of death, only and without the obligation of giving
account to us) they may use these our faculties, and apply the
privileges and indulgences contained in this summary, to those who,
being extremely poor, are not able to pay for it; and those who,
truly penitent, desire to obtain these graces, imposing upon them the
obligation of afterwards taking them if they have an exit out of
danger in the case for which they have recourse to it.
* * * * *
And inasmuch as, besides the other faculties, his holiness concedes
to us power to suspend, during the year of the publication of this
bull, all indulgences and graces, similar and dissimilar, conceded by
apostolical authority to any churches, monasteries, hospitals, pious
places, universities, brotherhoods, and private persons, in the said
kingdoms and dominions, although they may be in favour of the fabric
of the chapel of St Peter at Rome, or of any other similar crusade,
even containing clauses contrary to such suspension, as also that we
may re-validate in favour of those who participate in the indulgences
and graces of this bull what we may have suspended:
From henceforth, therefore, using the said apostolical authority, we
suspend, during the year of publication of this bull, the said
indulgences and graces, which, as aforesaid, we have power to
suspend, so that no person whosoever is able to publish, preach to,
or profit, any one in common or in particular, except he takes and
has this said bull, in whose favour only we re-validate them, in
order that they may be enjoyed by those who may have them, supposing
that our pass and examination shall have been previously obtained;
provided, that neither at the time of publishing or making them known
to the faithful, or in distributing the summaries of them, nor
before, nor afterwards, on any occasion or pretext, shall they ask
alms of any kind for the churches, sanctuaries, hospitals,
congregations, or other pious communities,
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