Along with Jerusalem, Rome, Santiago de Compostela, Urda and Caravaca de la Cruz, the Monastery of Santo Toribio de Liébana has the privilege of celebrating the Holy Year since it was granted by a bull of Pope Julius II in the year 1512, since that in this place the largest piece of the cross where Christ was crucified is preserved.
Destination of numerous pilgrimages, it was decided to grant the Jubilee in order to redeem the sins of all faithful who come to this place the year in which the festival of Santo Toribio, on April 16, fell on a Sunday.
The last Lebaniego Jubilee Holy Year took place in 2017 and is recorded in the ecclesiastical annals as the seventy-third.
In 2023 number 74 is celebrated, and the Door of Forgiveness of the Sanctuary of Santo Toribio will be reopened to obtain plenary indulgence.
To have this indulgence there are some requirements to meet: pray, confess and attend the pilgrim's Mass.
It is in the first quarter of the 12th century when there is the first reference to the monastery with the new dedication of Santo Toribio. It was royal property until the Castilian King Alfonso VIII ceded it to the Counts Don Gómez and Doña Emilia who in turn ceded it to the Burgos monastery of Oña.
The primitive construction was of pre-Romanesque style of the Asturian or Mozarabic type. Already in the middle of the 13th century the current church was built, the expenses of which were covered by the faithful.
In addition to the pilgrims who had Liébana as the end of their journey and visiting the Lignum Crucis in the Monastery of Santo Toribio, many of those who had the objective of reaching Santiago de Compostela made an obligatory stop in the Cantabrian town longing for its healing and miraculous powers. that were attributed to the saint and also to the revered relic.
