The Pardon Crucifix

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I know our great Holy Father, Pope St. Pius X, approved and greatly indulgenced the Pardon Crucifix, but did he design it? And if not, who did?
 
I’ve never heard of a ‘Pardon Crucifix’ before.

Can someone give some authoritative sources for details of it please?
 
I purchased three of them in the past two years. One for my wife, one for a grandson and one for the car.
 
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So i take it no one knows it’s origins? 🤷
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It seems that this was promoted by a group called the “Pious Union of the Crucifix of Pardon,” founded in Lyons, France in 1904. I believe it was created by some French priests; certainly no one ever seems to have thought that Pope Pius himself was responsible for it. As to the specific indulges attached to it by pontifical concession, I know of no reason to believe that these weren’t abolished with the promulgation of the current Enchiridion Indulgentiarum and subsumed under its grants of indulgences for piously using blessed objects, etc.
 
MarkThompson said:
It seems that this was promoted by a group called the “Pious Union of the Crucifix of Pardon,” founded in Lyons, France in 1904. I believe it was created by some French priests; certainly no one ever seems to have thought that Pope Pius himself was responsible for it. As to the specific indulges attached to it by pontifical concession, I know of no reason to believe that these weren’t abolished with the promulgation of the current Enchiridion Indulgentiarum and subsumed under its grants of indulgences for piously using blessed objects, etc.
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Thanks for the info!
I bought a new pardon crucifix 2 years ago and it had a card attached that stated the specific indulgences… how do you know these were abolished? I have the current Book of Indulgences, does it mention some kind of consolidation?
 
MarkThompson said:
It seems that this was promoted by a group called the “Pious Union of the Crucifix of Pardon,” founded in Lyons, France in 1904. I believe it was created by some French priests; certainly no one ever seems to have thought that Pope Pius himself was responsible for it. As to the specific indulges attached to it by pontifical concession, I know of no reason to believe that these weren’t abolished with the promulgation of the current Enchiridion Indulgentiarum and subsumed under its grants of indulgences for piously using blessed objects, etc.
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This is a good answer. St. Pius X didn’t design it, but as pope granted the request for the indulgences that were attached to it. I believe those are no longer valid, but certainly the prayers and reverent use of it are excellent things to do, and as Mark said, the general grant of indulgence for using blessed objects would apply if it’s blessed.

The origin of this crucifix is not the only example of things that get confused over time … the “Prayer of St. Francis,” for example, was not written by him, but was written in France in the late 1800s in honor of his spirituality, etc. “Prayer of” got morphed into “written by,” which is understandable. I have seen leaflets that say Pope Benedict XIV created the St. Benedict medal, just because he, too, granted indulgences to it once.

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mfrances said:
Thanks for the info!
I bought a new pardon crucifix 2 years ago and it had a card attached that stated the specific indulgences… how do you know these were abolished? I have the current Book of Indulgences, does it mention some kind of consolidation?
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The 1968 decree of the Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary accompanying the first edition of the Enchiridion stated:
All general grants of indulgences, not included in this same Enchiridion, are hereby revoked. Revoked also are any ordinances concerning indulgences, not included in the Norms on Indulgences given below, whether in the Code of Canon Law, or in Apostolic Letters, even if issued “Motu proprio,” or in Decrees of the Holy See.
 
MarkThompson said:
All general grants of indulgences, not included in this same Enchiridion, are hereby revoked. Revoked also are any ordinances concerning indulgences, not included in the Norms on Indulgences given below, whether in the Code of Canon Law, or in Apostolic Letters, even if issued “Motu proprio,” or in Decrees of the Holy See.
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More good news:rolleyes:
I find out more each day to make me wish i was born long ago. What was the excellant reason for revoking all of the indulgences? Surely it was a good one.
 
hudson said:
More good news:rolleyes:
I find out more each day to make me wish i was born long ago. What was the excellant reason for revoking all of the indulgences? Surely it was a good one.
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I think the then-existing state of affairs was seen as cumbersome, disorganized, and duplicative, with very many (but still not all) indulgences amassed into the Raccolta, but subject to scores of clarifications and other decrees published elsewhere. The Raccolta itself was originally a private endeavor (which someone put together because the situation was so confusing), eventually taken over and amended by the Holy See, but still in vulgar Italian. (The modern Enchiridion is in the sacred Latin tongue, official language of the Church.) Additionally, most old indulgences contained now-deprecated grants of “days” and “years” – the one for the Pardon Crucifix allowed a person to gain “seven years and seven quarantines,” although “quarantines” themselves had been deprecated by the 1940s or '50s.
 
Actually the Pardon Crucifix is still valid, in reference to its indulgences. What changed was the wording from days and quarentines to partial and plenary. As long as the crucifix is blessed by a priest using the sign of the cross and you use it according to the regulations that St. Pius X established u’ll be fine.
 
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