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Plenary Indulgence: World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly

July 11, 2023January 20, 2026

Grandparents and elderly Catholics may obtain a Plenary Indulgence, as decreed by the Apostolic Penitentiary, on the third World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly July 23.A plenary indulgence offers remission of the temporal punishment due to sins already forgiven, which can be applied to oneself or to the souls in Purgatory.Available if the usual…...