A votive office was a

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practice to celebrate particular feasts that are not in the Catholic

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. Votive offices became so common from 1883 that there were only around three weeks in which they could not be used. These were abolished by Pope

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in 1911 by the Apostolic Constitution ''Divino Afflatu''.

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