NOTICES OF PERU. 



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written in Spanish, and printed on ordinary paper, in semi- 

 gothic characters.* 



The bulls were purchased for every member of the family 

 that had attained seven years of age ; and so fully persuaded 

 were the poor of their necessity to complete absolution after 

 confession, and also of their efficacy in mitigating the torments 

 of those of their friends who had departed to another world, 

 that they sacrificed any thing in their possession to obtain the 

 bulls of dispensation for eating meat, and those of the living 

 and of the dead. 



The revolution interrupted all communication with the 

 Apostolic See, and consequently the bulas de Cruzada, that 

 were on hand, lost their efficacy before a new stock could be 

 supplied. jQnder these circumstances, on the 12th of Decem- 

 ber 1825, the dean of the holy metropolitan church of Lima 

 issued an order to continue the sale of the bulas de Cruzada, 

 which had been suspended on the fourth of March preceding. 

 The order states, ^*as the want of communication renders it 

 impossible to consult the Silla Apostolica, and being necessary 

 in the existing circumstances, the bula de Cruzada will be 

 granted, that meat may be eaten on the days of Lent and on 

 other days of abstinence, excepting only Ash Wednesday; 

 every Friday in Lent ; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and 

 Saturday in holy week ; the vigils of the nativity of Our Lord 

 and the Pentecost; the assumption of Our Lady, and the days 

 of the blessed apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul ; with the under- 

 standing, however, that on all excepted days for eating meat, it 

 is obligatory to preserve the form of fast, it not being permitted 

 to mix fish and flesh, agreeable to the constitution of the so- 

 vereign pontiff', Benedict XIV., dated 30th of May 1741, be- 

 ginning, ' Non ambigimus,^ &c." 



To obtain this indulgence, some act of charity or penance is 

 required. All persons in authority, from the first in the re- 

 public, all in its employ who enjoy any salary whatever, all 

 < haciendados' or farmers, whether proprietors or tenants, all 

 who possess any property, or are engaged in commerce, (evpry 



* Restrepo. Historia de Colombia. 



