The fact that the growing season is 365 days long felt like a plenary indulgence, even if you were a Methodist.

I'll get a plenary indulgence and go to paradise.' "

After the blessing the assistant priest he published a plenary indulgence.

Then on March 23, 1914, four minutes after receiving final absolution and the plenary indulgence, she died.

In that period, believers will be offered a wider selection of ways to receive a plenary indulgence.

But it would be a mistake to think that Richard was indifferent to the attractions of a plenary indulgence.

Pilgrims and other faithful who attend Mass on this day receive a plenary indulgence.

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

A plenary indulgence may also be gained on some occasions, which are not everyday occurrences.

A plenary indulgence represents to Catholics a release from temporal punishment for sin.

(The first four are common to all plenary indulgences.)

He also urged a crusade against the Waldensians, offering plenary indulgence to all who should engage in it.

In the Catholic Church, plenary indulgence has been granted for climbing the stairs on the knees.

Pius closed the encyclical by declaring a Jubilee year for 1865, with a plenary indulgence.

(Plenary indulgence once daily, under the usual conditions.)

Not the plenary indulgence loop hole?

On the Fridays of Lent, the indulgence is a plenary indulgence.

When the prayer itself is asked, composed, or canonically authorised by the Pope, it can also merit a plenary indulgence.

Several hundred thousand soldiers became Crusaders by taking vows; the papacy granted them plenary indulgence.

He then blessed the crowd and granted them - and those who followed the event on television and radio - a plenary indulgence.

The Vatican took television in a new direction when it announced in 1985 that it would allow plenary indulgences for home viewers.

The Pope said individual sinners can be granted "plenary indulgences," which remove the punishment for repented sins.

It's a plenary indulgence, man!

In an act of largesse, Celestine granted plenary indulgence to everyone present who had confessed and taken Communion.

A plenary indulgence is granted, under the usual conditions, to those who recite it in public on New Year's Eve.