elist, and the Holy
Innocents.

On the day of our Lord's Circumcision, and on that of the Epiphany.

On the Sundays of Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima.

On all the days in Lent.

On the first eight days after the Resurrection.

On the Feast of St Mark.

On the day of our Lord's Ascension.

On the eve of the day of Pentecost.

On the six days following Pentecost.

Days on which a soul may be drawn out of Purgatory,

+ On Septuagesima Sunday.

+ On the Tuesday after the first Sunday in Lent.

+ On the Saturday after the second Sunday in Lent.

+ On the third and fourth Sundays in Lent.

+ On the Friday and Saturday before the fifth Sunday in Lent.

+ On the Wednesday of the octave of the Resurrection.

+ On the Tuesday and Saturday of the octave of Pentecost.

(Signed) * D. MANUEL LOPEZ SANTAELLA. [SEAL.] Madrid: Press of the
Holy Crusade.

In numerous families the tax of those bulls is very heavy, for the master
or mistress is bound to purchase a copy for each member residing under
the roof, including all the servants.

Within the last three years, the office of commissary-general of the
Crusade has been abolished, and the collection of the funds arising from
this source has devolved on the bishops of the respective dioceses.

Besides fasting, there are other acts of penance and mortification
practised by the truly devout, and some of these have already been
noticed in former chapters. The _disciplina_ (whipping) was the most in
use when Roman Catholicism flourished in Spain without a rival. It was
very common, in the processions of Holy Week, to see penitents with their
shoulders naked, whipping themselves in public with so much severity as
to cause them to be literally covered with blood. We know a town in
Andalusia in which this is encouraged by the clergy; but in that place
the penitents receive money in exchange for the floggings which they
inflict on themselves, and which sometimes have laid the foundation of
bodily complaints that have terminated in the death of the victims.

Some penitents make a vow to go, with naked feet, and even on their
knees, from their houses to a certain sanctuary; others wear _cilicios_
(hair-shirts) or girdles around their bodies; these practices, however,
are now almost entirely abolished, and are observed only in some of the
few convents of the religious orders rema