Constitutions was to be recited daily, be graciously replaced with a special devotion of the entire Congregation, intended to aid the souls in Purgatory, without imposing any definite obligations. After the undersigned Cardinal Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Religious presented and referred all this matter, together with the corrected Constitutions that precede this Decree, to His Holiness Pope Pius X at the audience on September 15, 1910, the Holy Father graciously deigned to grant approval to the thus reformed Institute and to the aforesaid Constitutions, and also allowed for replacing the Office of the Dead, preserving, however, the Apostolic Constitutions and the jurisdiction of bishops. Everything to the contrary notwithstanding. Given in Rome, on November 28, 1910. Place of the Seal @ J.C. Cardinal Vives Prefect @ Donatus Archbishop of Ephesus Secretary Decrees of the Holy See Regarding the Congregation 53
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