Common salt exorcised and blessed by a priest with the formulas of the Roman Ritual, the most ancient sacramental of protection and health.
Documented history and memory received
The salt appears in Scripture as a sign and had its own formulas in the previous Roman Ritual. In the current ordinary rite not all blessed salt is exorcised or prescribed to be placed in corners or ingested for health. Like any sacramental, a blessing provides prayer and does not confer physical power on material. It distinguishes liturgical history, authorized use and domestic custom.
Who venerates the memory
The look is directed to Jesus Christ and to the mystery of his Incarnation, Passion, Death, Resurrection or Reign. The image, relic, monument or custom does not act by its own power: it serves the memory of the Gospel and leads to prayer, sacraments, conversion and charity.
History, tradition and discernment
Sacramental subject to existing liturgical books; present blessing and historical exorcisms are distinguished. The tab retains the memory received without turning legend, witness or believing interpretation into a historically demonstrated fact.
Celebration and devotional life
Festivity or main time: without own liturgical date documented in the main source.
No protection, indulgence, healing or automatic favor is guaranteed. Devotion is lived in freedom, within the liturgy, the sacraments, conversion and charity.
Location on the map
The marker points to St. Peter's Basilica · representative liturgical marker (Vatican City). Its approximate or representative character is declared not to pretend an exclusive point.
Main source
Holy See. Contrast lettering with OpenStreetMap/Nominatim.
Para orar
I exorcise you, a creature of salt, by the living God, by the true God, by the holy God... that you may be, for all who take you, the health of the soul and of the body, and that every unclean spirit may flee wherever you are spread. By Christ our Lord. Amen.
Image credit
Iglesia de la Santa Cruz de Nin, imagen temática libre que no representa sal bendita ni su rito. Photo: Paula Borkovic, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.