Translation / modern text
[Heading:] POPE CLEMENT XII.
Venerable Brother, greetings and Apostolic Blessing. Since, as you have recently submitted to Us, you intend to arrive soon with God's blessing at your Church of Lviv, We, desiring with fatherly love to care for the salvation of the souls of Christ's faithful entrusted to your charge and to bestow upon you special favors and graces, mercifully grant in the Lord a plenary indulgence and remission of all their sins to all Christ's faithful of both sexes, truly penitent and confessed and fortified by Holy Communion, who piously attend the first Mass which you will celebrate pontifically in the aforementioned Church of Lviv, and subsequently in other more significant, main churches of your diocese, and the blessing given by you to the people after the mass celebrations, or who on the same day piously visit the church where you celebrate Mass, and there pour out pious prayers to God for the concord of Christian rulers, the eradication of heresy, and the exaltation of Holy Mother Church.
This letter is valid only for this one time. Given in Rome at Saint Mary Major, under the Ring of the Fisherman, on the 6th of July 1737, in the seventh year of Our pontificate.
[On the left:] Free for God and the secretary
[On the right signature:] [F. Card. Olivieri?]
[Reverse:]
[Address:] To the venerable brother Mikołaj Gerard, Archbishop of Lviv
[Below the address note:] F[...] 75.
[Top right chancery / archival marks:] XXIV; [stamp:] 21
[Along the right edge vertically:] Morionellus [?]
Original wording — transcription
[Nagłówek:] CLEMENS PP. XII.
Ven[erabi]li frater sal[ute]m et Ap[ostoli]cam Ben[edictionem]. Cum sicut nuper Nobis exponi fecisti, Tu prope diem benedicente Domino ad Ecclesiam tuam Leopolien[sem] accedere intendas, Nos animarum X[risti]fidelium tuae curae commissarum saluti paterna charitate consulere, Teque specialibus favoribus, et gratijs prosequi volentes, o[mni]bus utriusque sexus X[risti]fidelibus verè paeniten[tibus] et confessis, ac Sacrâ Com[munio]ne refectis, qui primae Missae, quam in dictâ Leopolien[si], et deinde in alijs locorum insigniorum tuae Dioecesis praec[ipuis] Ecclesijs in Pontificalibus celebrabis, ac Benedictioni per Te supra populum post Missarum solemnia largien[dae] devotè interfuerint, seu Ecclesiam, in quâ Missam celebrabis, eodem die devotè visitaverint, et ibi pro X[risti]anorum P[ri]ncipum concordiâ, haeresum extirpatione, ac S[anctae] Matris Ecclesiae exaltat[i]o[n]e pias ad Deum preces effuderint, Plenariam omnium peccatorum suorum Indulgentiam, et remissionem misericorditer in D[omi]no concedimus.
P[raese]ntibus pro hac vice valituris. Dat[um] Romae apud S[anctam] Mariam Majorem sub annulo Piscatoris die VJ. Julij MDCCXXXVIJ. Pont[ificatus] N[ost]ri Anno Septimo.
[Po lewej:] Gratis prò Deo et Secr[etari]o
[Po prawej podpis:] [F. Card. Oliverius?]
[Verso:]
[Adres:] Ven[erabi]li fratri Nicolao Gherardo Archiepiscopo Leopolien[si]
[Pod adresem nota:] F[...] 75.
[Po prawej u góry znaki kancelaryjne / archiwalne:] XXIV; [stempelek:] 21
[Przy prawej krawędzi pionowo:] Morionellus [?]
Reading notes
Papal brief of Clement XII written on parchment in the form of an oblong strip. On the reverse, the address to the Archbishop of Lviv, Mikołaj Gerard [Ignacy] Wyżycki, and traces of a seal under a wafer (Ring of the Fisherman). Discrepancy of the name with the catalog card: the verso of the document reads 'Nicolao Gherardo', while the archival card notes 'Mykolaiu Ihnatsiiu' (it refers to the same person: Mikołaj Gerard / Ignacy Wyżycki, Archbishop of Lviv from 1737–1757).
