Keywords: Certificate of having gone to confession.png A Roman Catholic certificate of having gone to confession from the year 1521 Extracted from http //www gabrieleweis de/3-geschichtsbits/histo-surfing/4-neuzeit1/4-2-renaissance/synopsenbilder/ablassbiref jpg with cleanup by uploader 1521-12-19 Fr Jeronimus Munghofer OSB pd-old Indulgence2 png Black and white version of Image Indulgence2 png Transcription Handwritten parts in italics; expanded abbreviations are in round brackets ; punctuation added Ego fra ter Jeronimus Munghofer Ordinis S anc ti Benedicti Confessor et p enitent iarius Monasterii et Capelle B ea te Marie V ir ginis diuinitus consecrate loci Heremitarum Constan tie dyoc esis deputatus p e ni te n ti bus recognosco discretumos ac honestos Johannem et Oswaldum Bürgi fratres dictum locum et Capellam visitasse mihique sua p ec c a ta in forma ecclesie confessum et auctoritate sede ap osto lica mihi in hac parte concessa iniuncta p e n itent ia salutari absolutum in quorum fide p rese ntes litteras tradidi sigilloque in huiusmodi litteris consueto signaui Anno M ccccc xxi datum nonadecima die mensis decembris Seals English translation I Fra Jeronimus Munghofer of the Order of St Benedict confessor and penitentiary of the monastery and chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary that by the will of God has been consecrated at Einsiedeln in the Diocese of Constance acknowledge that the worthy and honourable brothers Johannes and Oswald Bürgi have visited the said place and chapel have confessed their sins to me in the form established by the Church and after imposition of a salutary penance have by the authority granted to me in this region by the Apostolic See been absolved In witness whereof I have delivered the present document and marked it with the usual seal for such documents Given in the year 1521 on the nineteenth day of the month of December Note In spite of the heading the document is not about an indulgence remission of a penance but is a certificate of having gone to confession and after the customary imposition of a penance iniuncta paenitentia salutari having been absolved Roman Catholic Church PD-old-100 |