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THREE YEARS IN THE PACIFIC. 



Letania de N. S. el Rosario y otras devotas oraciones, todas 

 las gracias, Yndulgencias, y anos de perdon que general- 

 mente estan concedidos por los Sumos Pontijices sus ante- 

 cesores, a los que visitdren los altares de otras Santas Yma- 

 genes,y en especial los que concedid Sixto Y . y conjirmd 

 Benedicto Xlll. , paraque pueden aplicarlas por modo de Su- 

 fragio h las Benditas Almas del Purgatorio todas las veces 

 que visitdren este Jiltar^ y rezdren la Letania, el Rosario^ 

 o' la Salve.^' 



" Y siendo moralmente imposible especijicar el numero de 

 estas Yndulgencias, baste decir que esta concesion es de las 

 mas amplias conque la Yglesia puede franquearnos sus te- 

 soros para alibio de las Benditas Almas del Purgatorio.^^ 

 Our Lord the Pope Clement XIV., by his breve of 11th of 

 June 1771." 



Concedes to all faithful Christians, who, truly contrite, 

 may visit this altar of Our Lady of Antigua, asking from their 

 hearts, for the exaltation of the Holy Faith, peace and concord 

 between Christian Princes ; and pray the Litany of Our Lord, 

 the Rosary, and other devout prayers, all the graces, indul- 

 gencies, and years of pardon, which are generally conceded by 

 the High Pontiffs, his predecessors, to those who may visit the 

 altars of other holy images, and especially those conceded by 

 Sixtus v., and confirmed by Benedict XHL, that they may 

 apply them as a suffrage to the blessed souls in Purgatory, a» 

 often as they may visit this altar, and pray the Litany, the 

 Rosary, or Salve.'' 



"And it being morally impossible to specify the number of 

 these indulgencies, let it be sufficient to say, that this conces- 

 sion is of the most ample of those, by which the church can 

 bestow upon us its treasures for the relief of the Blessed Souls 

 in Purgatory 



The chapels on the sides of the church, are eighteen in num- 

 ber. The first on the left, contains a piece of the Sanctum 

 Lignum Crucis, presented at the solicitation of Ugarte, the 

 fifth archbishop, by Pope Urban VIL In this chapel two mass- 

 es are chanted yearly ; one on the day of the Holy Trinity, 

 and the other on that of San Antonio de Padua. Besides, there 



