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Marriage with Nuptial Mass and Papal Blessing?

  • 03-12-2017 7:23pm
    #1
    BottleOfSmoke
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    I'm doing some genealogy research and I notice that some reports of weddings in the newspapers say that the marriage took place with a nuptial mass and papal blessing.
    Reading up a bit, I see that people can pay for a papal blessing, but also need a letter of recommendation from the parish priest.
    Is a nuptial mass/papal blessing relatively rare? (these were 1950s-1970s).
    Can I assume that the happy couple or their parents are known as being particularly devout and would be regular church-goers? I guess I'm asking: is money enough, or would there be vetting by the P.P.


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  • #2
    Peregrinus
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    A nuptial mass was (and is) standard. You celebrate a wedding in the context of a mass; that's a nuptial mass.

    The papal blessing was pretty common. Yes, it had to be recommended by the P.P., but P.P.s would generally recommend any regular member of the parish who hadn't blotted his copybook in some fairly spectacular way. You would have to be "regular churchgoers", but that didn't count as "particularly devout" in the 1950s-70s; it came as standard. The papal blessing would often be organised by family as a kind of gift to the couple.


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