Prayer to Our Lady of Africa
The New Raccolta, 1903, no. 77Source and notes
PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF AFRICA FOR THE CONVERSION OF THE MUSSULMANS AND OTHER INFIDELS OF AFRICA
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| Printed in | THE NEW RACCOLTA, OR, COLLECTION OF PRAYERS AND GOOD WORKS. TO WHICH THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFFS HAVE ATTACHED HOLY INDULGENCES. TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING PRAYERS FOR MASS, AND VESPERS FOR SUNDAYS. |
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| Imprint | PHILADELPHIA, PETER F. CUNNINGHAM & SON, 1903 |
| Number | 77 |
| Pages | p. 356 |
| Scan | leaf 365 of the Internet Archive copy |
| Approval | FROM THE THIRD ITALIAN EDITION AUTHORIZED AND APPROVED BY THE SACRED CONGREGATION OF HOLY INDULGENCES. Imprimatur: ✠ JACOBUS, CARD. GIBBONS, ARCHIEP. BALTIMORENSIS. BALTIMORE, July 20, 1887. Imprimatur: ✠ PATRICK JOHN, ARCHBISHOP OF PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8, 1900. Moreover, Our Holy Father, Leo XIII., by virtue of his apostolic authority, has approved this Collection issued from the press of the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda, and, therefore, it must be regarded by all as the correct and authorized collection of indulgences hitherto granted for all the faithful and for such as are in communities specially designated. Wherefore, if by chance any doubt should arise either as to sense of the grant or the conditions requisite for gaining the indulgences, it must be determined solely by this Raccolta which His Holiness has directed to be considered the complete guide. On this account he has ordered the present decree to be prepared and prefixed to the present edition. Given at Rome, at the office of the Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Indulgences and Holy Relics, on the 23d day of July, 1898. FR. H. M. CARD. GOTTI, Prefect. L. ✠ S. † A. SABATUCCI, Archiep. Antinoen. Secretary. The Sacred Congregation of Indulgences and Holy Relics has approved of, as authentic, and permitted to be printed and published, this English translation of the Italian Raccolta, a book containing various prayers and pious exercises, to which the Roman Pontiffs have attached indulgences. This approbation was given after the work had been duly examined by two professors of theology of Woodstock College, who testified that they found this translation to be entirely faithful and in full accord with the Italian original, published in the year 1886 by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. Given at Rome, at the Office of the Secretary of this same Sacred Congregation, April 28, 1887. FR. THOMAS MARIA CARD. ZIGLIARA, Prefect. [L. ✠ S.] ALEXANDER, BISHOP OENSIS, Secretary. DECRETUM ANNI 1886. |
| Indulgence | His Holiness, Leo XIII., by a rescript of the S. Congr. of Indulgences, June 30, 1896, granted to the faithful who shall recite the above prayer AN INDULGENCE OF ONE HUNDRED DAYS, once a day. |
| Rights | Public domain in the United States. |
- Prayers for
- the conversion of sinners, the missions
Albrecht Dürer, The Virgin with a Starry Crown, 1508. Cleveland Museum of Art.
O Our Lady of Africa, thou whose Immaculate Heart is so full of mercy and of maternal compassion, be moved with tender pity at the profound misery of the Mussulmans and other unbelievers in Africa. Remember that the souls of those poor infidels are the work of thy divine Son’s hands, that they were created to his image and ransomed at the cost of his Precious Blood. Mother of mercy, do not permit that those unfortunate creatures, who are yet thy children as well as we, any longer to go on rushing into hell in spite of the merits of Jesus Christ and of the most cruel death he suffered for their salvation. Obtain for them the knowledge of our holy religion and the grace to love it, to embrace it, and to practice it faithfully. And since thou art the Sovereign Lady of Africa, O Queen of Apostles, deign to select legions of holy missionaries and to send them to those forsaken regions, to conquer them, to snatch them from death and from Satan, and to bring them into the fold of the true church. Thus shall we be all united, with the same hope and the same love in thy most pure heart and in the adorable heart of the divine Son and our Lord Jesus Christ who was crucified and who died for the salvation of all men, and now gloriously risen lives and reigns together with the the Father and the Holy Ghost forever and ever. Amen
His Holiness, Leo XIII., by a rescript of the S. Congr. of Indulgences, June 30, 1896, granted to the faithful who shall recite the above prayer
AN INDULGENCE OF ONE HUNDRED DAYS, once a day.