After the Guild's foundation in 1887, its leadership revived or restored pilgrimages to pre- and post-Reformation sites, and coordinated the movement of thousands of pilgrims across the country. This article offers an examination of how and why Guild leaders chose particular locations in the ...
Canterbury, in England's southeastern county of Kent, was also a popular destination for pilgrims. It held appeal as a pilgrimage site for the shrine of Augustine of Canterbury, a monk sent from Rome by the pope in the late 6th century to convert Anglo-Saxon pagans. But it was most popul...
Sites like the Church of the Nativity draw many pilgrims who come to meditate and find inner peace where Jesus was born. This pilgrimage is accompanied by spiritual reflection and a chance to spend time absorbing the rich history of the area. Canterbury, England Canterbury holds historical and ...
Portrait heads like the Tullaghmealan bishop are found at other ecclesiastical sites in Ireland. The parish church of St. Molleran in Carrick-on-Suir was built in the nineteenth century on the site of a Franciscan Friary. The building, incorporates the tower, part of the north wall and wes...
Once at Canterbury itself, a number of sites would have formed part of the pilgrimage experience.As Paul Webster explains inThe Cult of St. Thomas Becket in the Plantagenet World, key pilgrimage sites at Canterbury Cathedral included “the site of the martyrdom, the crypt tomb, the principal sh...
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The Grand Mosque, among the holiest sites in Islam, is off-limits to non-Muslims. Saudi Arabia also bans signs and political slogans from the sacred courtyard for fear of offending Islamic sensibilities. Queen Elizabeth, who died last week, was head of the Church of England. Article content ...
But I had an uncle who retired early, traveled abroad, and who walked across England and rode a train across Russia. And I have a brother who worked in places like Germany, Brazil and Japan. These were worlds unknown to me, entirely different than the world I knew, and I was curious....
and Holywell in England and Wales; St Andrews in Scotland; Chartres, Notre Dame de Liesse, Notre Dame de Rocamadour, and Notre Dame des Victoires, with Ste Anne d’Auray in Britanny, in France; and Hal in Belgium. Devotion to these shrines was encouraged and developed by copious indulgences...
The locations of many pagan sacred sites were lost due to the religious fanaticism of early Christianity. All was not lost however, for the Catholic church, in erecting their religious structures upon the foundations of the ancient megalithic ruins (even using the broken up dolmen and menhir ston...