aflaet

Updated: July 22, 2026

I, who only knew "indulgence" from my history lessons at school, saw with keen interest the priest in a Brussels church dispense "indulgence pleniere," or, in Flemish, vollen aflaet. I was interested in the curious names of the ecclesiastical orders posted up in the churches, marvelled, for instance, at a brotherhood that was called "St.

Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - Recollections of My Childhood and Youth