Editing Pope Benedict XIV (section)

====Jubilee====
On 5 May 1749, Pope Benedict XIV declared a [[Holy Year]], to begin on Christmas Eve, 1749 and to extend throughout the next year until Christmas 1750.<ref>[http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Ben14/b14pereg.htm Benedict XIV, "Peregrinantes" (Proclaiming a Holy Year for 1750), 5 May 1749] {{cite book|author=Juan Facundo Raulin|title=Año Santo dentro y fuera de Roma: Sirve para ella en este Año Santo de 1750. Para España en el de 1751 y en los siguientes para las Indias|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yXkx964ceQUC&pg=PA4|year=1751|publisher=Francisco Moreno|location=Zaragoza|language=es|pages=4–12}}</ref> During the month of April 1750, 43,000 meals were served to the poor at the Trinita Hospital.<ref>[http://www.papalartifacts.com/portfolio-item/pope-benedict-xiv/ Kunst, Richard. "Benedict XIV", Papal Artifacts]{{self-published source|date=June 2022}} James A. Campbell, "The Year of Jubilee," in: {{cite book|title=The American Catholic Quarterly Review |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=apkNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA247|volume=25|year=1900|publisher=Hardy and Mahony|location=Philadelphia|pages=240–252}}</ref> Later that year, the Pope banned [[card game]]s.<ref name="Gazette">''The Dublin Gazette'' (Number 26). Dublin: Richard James and John Butler, 1750. {{Page needed|date=December 2018}} Context: "In the Edict lately published against all Games on the Cards, it is enacted, that the Penalty on Delinquents shall be a Fine of 500 Crowns; but if any Persons of high Rank or Distinction are convicted of suffering or promoting Gaming of that Kind in their house, they shall incur the Pope's Indignation, and be liable to such arbitrary Punishment as to his Holiness shall seem meet."</ref>

With the [[papal bull]] ''Peregrinantes'', Benedict XIV convoked a [[Jubilee in the Catholic Church|Jubilee]] in 1750. Furthermore, the pope called upon Saint [[Leonard of Port Maurice]] to preach; both had a close relationship and the year previously saw Benedict XIV ask him to give sermons on penance and conversion in Rome. Among the initiatives that the pope designed for the Jubilee were the call for Christian unity and organizing for proper accommodation for those pilgrims who flocked to Rome.

Upon the advice of Saint Leonard, the pope was the first to institute the ''[[Via Crucis]]'' at the [[Colosseum]], which he consecrated as a site of martyrdom for the early Christians. The pope placed the stations of the Cross in the arena, however, these were removed in 1874 before being restored in 1925.