Note 1047 — Chapter III · PENITENTS IN EXTREME DANGER

With regard to the Indulgence for the dying we append the following from the various decrees: The sick person can gain only once the Plenary Indulgence for the dying in eodem mortis articulo. S. C. Ind. 5 Febr., 1841. And it is forbidden to give the General Absolution more than once (whether it be by the same or by different priests) in eodem mortis articulo, or to grant the Plenary Indulgence for the dying repeatedly on the plea that the patient has claims to it from various titles, for instance, by membership in the confraternities of the Rosary and of the Scapular. S. C. Ind. 12 Mar., 1855, 22 Mar., 1879. The formula prescribed by Benedict XIV must be used by all under pain of invalidity, and according to a declaration of Leo XIII, 1882, even by Regulars and Tertiaries, yet with mention of the founder of their Order in the Confiteor. Compare Schneider-Beringer, Die Ablässe, 10. Aufl. S. 473 f.