Wesley Corpus

Wed. 30.--In the afternoon we came io Mentz, and agreed for our passage to Célen, by water, for a florin per head ; which was but half what we gave before, though, it seems, twice as much as we ought to have given. Thur. 31.--We spent half an hour in the great church,-- a huge heap of irregular building ; full of altars, adorned (or loaded rather) with abundance of gold and silver. In going out we observed a paper on the door, which was of so extraordinary a nature, that I ' thought it would not be labour lost to transcribe it. The words were as follow :-- Vollkommener Ablass fur die arme Seelen im Feg-feur. Seine Pabliche Heiligkeit, Clemens der XIIte, haben in diesem jahr 1738, den 7 Augusti, die pfarr kirche des Sanctt Christophori in Mentz gnddigsten privilegirt, dass ein jeder Priester, so wohl secular als regularischen stands, der am aller seelen-tag, wie auch an einem jedem tag in derselben octaw; so dann am zwiein vom ordinario tdgen einer jeden woch das jahr hindurch, fur die seel eine Christglaubigen verstorbenen an zum altar mess lessen wird, jedesmahl eine seel aus dem fegfeur erlosen konne. “A full Release for the poor Souls in Purgatory. “‘ His Papal Holiness, Clement the XIIth, hath this year, 1738, on the 7th of August, most graciously privileged the cathedral church of St. Christopher, in Mentz; so that every priest, as well secular as regular. who will read mass at an altar for the soul of a Christian ete ----* <= “Sept. 1738. ] REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 109 departed, on any holiday, or on any day within the octave thereof, or on two extraordinary days, to be appointed by the ordinary, of any week in the year, may each time deliver a soul out of the fire of Purgatory.”