Congregation with graces and privileges granted to mendicant and non-mendicant orders of both sexes. Therefore, wishing to embrace the Order or the Congregation of Clerics Regular Marians and other pious institutes with our care and benevolence, and impart our special regards and wishes to the aforesaid Norbert and our beloved sons, priests, seminarians and lay brothers of the said Order or the Congregation, for this purpose only, by this decree we absolve each individual person of that Order from all excommunications, suspense, and other ecclesiastical judgments, censures and punishments imposed by law or by people for whatever cause or reason, should they be affected by any of them, in order to achieve only this effect, and we consider them as absolved in the future. Acceding to the humble requests of the said Norbert, after due consideration we decide to extend forever each and every privilege, prerogative, grant, favor, power, declaration, custom, and exemption, as well as liberties and other graces, preeminence and indults of both spiritual and worldly kind, as long as they are not revoked or restricted due to some appeals or holy canons and decrees of the Council of Trent and apostolic constitutions and directives nor prohibited to the aforesaid Clerics Regular Marians of the above-mentioned Order or Congregation, and are not in contradiction with the abovementioned mendicant and non-mendicant Orders, along with all their monasteries, houses, and other apostolic workplaces, as well as the Superior Generals of these Orders, their presidents and all other prelates and even General Chapters and Provincial or intermediate Chapters and the chairmen of thereof, their priors, novices, brothers, serfs, and all other religious persons situated both in the city or in whatever part of the world; and because of them or for whatever other reason have been already granted and are still being granted by Roman Bishops, our predecessors or other persons of authority, to which they have the right, or custom, or a privilege of using, employing, owing, and enjoying, as well as may use, employ, owe, and enjoy in the future, we have granted them already and grant them anew wishing that they serve this Order well; we also decree that the present document have a perpetual and Decrees of the Holy See Regarding the Congregation 49
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