e hardly a service or a ceremony, which has not its own peculiar
indulgences. Indulgences for hundreds of years may be secured by the
exercises of a single day. The holy stairs, wherever they are
situated, said to have belonged to the palace of Pontius Pilate,
consisting of twenty-eight steps, possess peculiar virtue. Leo IV.
conceded nine years' indulgence for each step ascended by a devotee on
his bare knees. Thus, he who reaches the highest step secures an
indulgence of two hundred and fifty-two years, whether he remains
here, or finds himself in purgatory. Whoever kisses a cross at one end
of the Colosseum of Rome, acquires an indulgence of one year and forty
days; and there is a wooden cross in the centre of the arena, which
secures an indulgence of two hundred days to every one who kisses it.

Leo XII. conceded for ever an indulgence of forty years and one
thousand six hundred days, applicable also to the dead, for every time
a faithful believer visits, during Lent, the churches where there are
prescribed stations. He also conceded a plenary indulgence to all who
have made such visits three times in three distinct days. For the
information of all good Catholics, a carefully prepared index has been
drawn up, showing the churches and stations which should be visited,
together with the most effectual times of repairing thither. In
conclusion, we give the following examples, to illustrate the system
of procuring indulgences by pilgrimage to sacred places:--

Thus a visit "on January 1 to a station at S. Marie,
in Transtevere, secures an indulgence of 30 years and
1200 days."

"On Ash Wednesday, to S. Tabina, an indulgence of 15
years and 600 days.

"On the following Thursday, to S. Georgio, in Velabro,
an indulgence of 10 years and 400 days.

"On the fourth Sunday in Lent, to S. Croce, an
indulgence of 15 years and 600 days.

"On Palm Sunday, to S. Giovanni, in the Laterno, an
indulgence of 25 years and 1000 days.

"On holy Thursday, to S. Giovanni, a plenary
indulgence.

"On holy Friday, to S. Croce, an indulgence of 30
years and 1200 days.

"On Easter Sunday, to S. Marie Maggiore, a plenary
indulgence.

"On Easter Monday, to S. Pietro, in Vaticano, an
indulgence of 30 years and 1200 days.

"On Thursday, Ascension-day, to S. Pietro, a plenary
indulgence.

"On Wednesday,