SABATINO, PRIVILEGE. - It is based on the apparition and promise of the Most Holy Virgin to free from Purgatory the souls of the confreres of Carmel on the Saturday after their death. The conditions of the privilege are: for religious, to persevere in the Order; for the confreres aggregated to it, to wear the "sign of the holy habit" (taken literally: the mantle, but in practice the scapular), to observe chastity in accordance with their own state, to recite the Little Office of the Madonna or, if unable to do so, to abstain from meat on Wednesday and Saturday; this last condition can be commuted by priests having the faculty by the recitation of seven Pater, Ave, Gloria.
The apparition and the privilege are set forth in the so-called "Sabbatine bull" of John XXII, Sacratissimo uti culmine (1322), known through a transcript in the confirmatory bull of Alexander V (1409) authenticated in 1421, then inserted in the bull of Clement VIIEx clementi (1530).
The decree of the Holy Office of 11 Feb. 1613 clarified: "The Carmelite Fathers are permitted to preach that the Christian people may piously believe... that the Most Holy Virgin will help the souls of the friars and confreres after their passage... with her continual intercessions, suffrages, merits and particular protection, especially on the day of Saturday, which the Church consecrates to the same Virgin...". Even the most recent popes have repeatedly recalled the Sabbatine privilege, most recently Pius XII in the commemorative letter for the seventh centenary of the vision of St. Simon Stock (11 Feb. 1950).
However, the material authenticity of the bull of John XXII has been strongly contested, both because it is not contained in the official Register and because of the little curial and rather strange tenor of the text. In the current state of the documentation, the devotion is found fully developed in the second half of the 15th century.
Bibliography3 worksagainst authenticity: J. Launoy, De Simonis Stochii viso, de sabbatinae bullae privilegio... dissertationes 5, 2nd ed., Paris 1653. In defen
BIBL.: against authenticity: J. Launoy, De Simonis Stochii viso, de sabbatinae bullae privilegio... dissertationes 5, 2nd ed., Paris 1653. In defense: Ireneo di s. Giacomo, Tract. theol. de singulari immaculatae Virginis protectiones, ibid. 1650; T. Raynaud, Scapulare marionum illustratum et defensum, ibid. 1654. Modern authors: B. Zimmerman, Mon. hist. Carmelitana, Lerins 1907, pp. 336-63; E. Magennis, The sabbatine privilege of the scapular, New York 1923.
Xiberta, Bartolomeo. “Sabatino, privilegio.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, col. 1512. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/sabatino-privilegio.
MLA
Xiberta, Bartolomeo. “Sabatino, privilegio.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 1512. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/sabatino-privilegio.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec10_sabatino_privilegio,
author = {Xiberta, Bartolomeo},
title = {Sabatino, privilegio},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {X},
pages = {1512},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1953},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/sabatino-privilegio}
}
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