Pontifical Letter - Maxime Anni Sancti Martyrum

[Iudaes 1087]

A PONTIFICAL LETTER
Maxime Anni Sancti Martyrum

 

In Affirmation of the Holy Year of 1820
In Celebration of the Martyrs of Our Faith

 

SOLEMNLY PROMULGATED
BY HIS HOLINESS
HIGH PONTIFF IUDAES SECUNDUS
11th of Horen's Calling, 1820

 

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Most Beloved Brethren, Health and Pontifical Benediction.

 

We address you, Our flock, in joyous celebration of those Saints, Blessed, and Venerable men and women recognized as martyrs among the histories of the Mother Church. As declared months ago in the sixth Bull of Our Pontificate, Sextus Aurea Bulla Providentia, the year of 1820 has been declared a Jubilee Year, a time of solemn practice of the tenets of our faith, of penance, and of pilgrimage stretching far and wide throughout those nations of which the Church encompasses.

 

It is this Jubilee Year, dedicated to those who have sacrificed life and limb for all that is Holy, foremost being God Himself, that is perhaps of most import among times of similar observance. It is the sacrifice of a martyr which is a very embodiment of faith; trust in God and absolute zeal in their commitment to the one truth, that Scripture of which He did bestow unto us through His Prophets. Whether in times of war as now, or times of peace, it is the tales of the martyrs and those teachings derived from their actions which should be held always at the heart of the flock.

 

And so, it is in celebration of this Year of Jubilee that We entreat all to sacrifice in Virtue; to reject temptations, to be charitable, and to help others as the martyrs did. We too command of the ordained of the Church that mass is to be held in each Diocese, the liturgy dedicated to that creed of selflessness at the heart of 1820. 

 

With that, We do hereby decree Our affirmation of the Jubilee Year of Martyrs and it’s immediate commencement upon the publishing of this Pontifical Letter. May the martyrs enlighten all in Virtue and forever intercede on the behalf of the faithful from those heavens, a place in which they earned in duty to God, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

 

Dei Gratia,
Sanctitas, Papa Iudaes Secundus

 

 

☩INSTAURARE OMNIA IN DEO☩
RESTORE ALL THINGS IN GOD

Edited May 13, 2021 by GoldWolf