Rewarding Devotion: Indulgences and the Promotion of Images

The indulgence is one of the Church’s mechanisms for encouraging pious practices which has generally had a bad press. This paper is concerned with its use in the veneration of three images: the Veronica, the arma Christi or instruments of the Passion, and the Man of Sorrows with the indulgence refer...

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Main Author: Lewis, Flora (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 1992
In: Studies in church history
Year: 1992, Volume: 28, Pages: 179-194
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