"Holy Year"

A bull, issued on Ascension Day by Pope Pius XI and read aloud from St. Peter's steps, urged "that all non-Catholics should seek refuge in the true Church of Jesus Christ. ... If not all collectively, many at least from their bosoms, should pass to the one and only fold of Christ on this occasion of great jubilee." The bull further proclaimed 1925 a "Holy Year" in accordance with the custom established by Boniface VIII in 1300 and revived in 1475 by Paul II,