Unrecorded indulgence broadside from Toledo.

Ave Maria Purisima, sin Pecado Concebida. Del Oratorio de Nuestro Padre San Felipe Neri, y Escuela de Jesu-Cristo Señor Nuestro. De la Ciudad de Toledo, año de 1824. Están concedidos dos mil cuatrocientos sesanta dias de indulgencia … [Toledo]: s.n., [1824]. 4to [22.2 x 15.4 cm], [1] f. letterpress broadside on laid paper, with woodcut of Immaculate Conception. Unobtrusive fold, minor edge toning.
 
 
Unrecorded indulgence broadside printed for the Oratorio de Nuestro Padre San Felipe Neri and the Santa Escuela de Cristo in Toledo in 1824. At the center of the sheet is a (rather vernacular) woodcut of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, and at the left is letterpress text stating that 51 Archbishops and Bishops of Spain granted 2470 days of relief from purgatory to those who “devotedly say aloud these sweet, nice words” to the image of the Virgin. Below this is a letterpress manicule (little pointing hand) indicating that the words to be said aloud are “Ave Maria Purisima, sin Pecado Concebida” (“Hail immaculate Mary, conceived without sin”). 
 
The text at the right (rather stealing the thunder of the Marian prayer) reads, “But many more indulgences (with the remission of all sins) are granted for saying with a whole heart: O mi Dios! …,” and there follows a prayer to Christ. 
 
The Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri (founded in Rome in 1575) and the Santa Escuela de Cristo (founded in Madrid in 1653) operated as charitable-devotional societies open both to clerics and laymen. It is unclear if these institutions collaborated in promoting popular piety through the issuance of this broadside, or if a printer simply capitalized on the authority of these institutions by adding their names without authorization to his publication. 
 
 
This item is not recorded in OCLC or KVK.
 
* Fermín Labarga García, La Santa Escuela de Cristo; P. Türks, Philip Neri: The Fire of Joy.