Giusto de’ Menabuoi, Ceiling of the Padua Cathedral Baptistery, c. 1377
Giusto de’ Menabuoi, Ceiling of the Padua Cathedral Baptistery, c. 1377
‘An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints.’ (CCC 1471)