Note 210 — Chapter XXV · ASCENT OF ADAM’S PEAK
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In a very startling list of venerated objects which the Hon. J. W. Percy saw in Rome about the year 1850, he mentions a drawing or tracing representing The Sole of the Shoe of the Virgin Mary, edged at the margin with a glory, and with a star at the upper end. Within the tracing the following notice of an indulgence is printed:
‘Hail Mary,
Most Holy,
Virgin Mother
Of God.
‘The true measure of the foot of the Most Blessed Mother of God, taken from her real shoe, which, with the highest devotion, is preserved in a monastery in Spain. The Pontiff John XXII. conceded three hundred years of Indulgence unto whomsoever shall three times kiss this measure and at the same time recite three Ave Marias; the which also was confirmed by Pope Clement VIII., the year of our Redemption, 1603.
‘This Indulgence not being limited in respect to number, may be acquired as many times as shall be desired by the devotees of the Most Holy Virgin Mary. It may be applied to the souls in Purgatory. And it is to be permitted, to the greater glory of the Queen of Heaven, to take from this measure other similar measures, the which shall have the same Indulgence.
“Mary, Mother of Grace,
Pray for us.”’
—‘Romanism as it Exists at Rome,’ Hon. J. W. Percy, pp. 127, 128.