By: Ashley Deering

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A Virtual Pilgrimage

• By Ashley Deering
• Grace Holthaus

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• What
• Pilgrim comes from the Latin term peregrinus
  meaning stranger or foreigner.
• Who
• Men and women of every social class
• Muslims
• Christians
• Monks, clerics, laity
• Jews

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• Where
• Jerusalem
• Mecca
• Rome
• Ireland
• Egypt
• Syria
• Relics

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• Why
• Internal pilgrimage
• Penance/resolution of sins
• Purify soul
• Indulgences
• Second baptism
• Increase chance of salvation
• Required in religion
• Political and social circumstances didnt allow
  long distance travel
• Quest for knowledgeboth religious and secular
• Expressions of religious devotion
• Christ was a wanderer of the world, people
  followed suit
• Pursue miracles
• Cure of illness
• Evangelical imitation

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Jewish Pilgrimage

• Place
• Palestine
• Jerusalem
• Hebron
• Egypt
• United Kingdom

• Sites
• Temple Mount
• Mount of Olives
• Temple of Patriarchs
• The Red Sea
• The Wall of Jericho
• Pillar of salt
• The Western Wall

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Islamic Pilgrimage

• Place
• Mecca

• Sites
• Kaba

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Christian Pilgrimage

• Places
• Palestine and Rome
• From the 4th century
• Syria and Egypt
• North Africa
• Europe Gaul Austria
• Tours from 397
• Compostela, Spain
• From 9th century

• Sites
• Sts. Jerome, Peter, and Paul, James
• Holy Sepulchre
• Ancient Roman Church
• Biblical sites
• Desert Fathers
• Constantinian Basilicas in Holy Land and Rome
• Relics

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Resources

• The Writings of Medieval Women
• Marcelle Thiebaux
• Religion in the Medieval West
• Bernard Hamilton
• Medieval European Pilgrimages, c. 700-1500
• Diana Webb
• The Dictionary of the Middle Ages
• Joseph R. Strayer (editor in chief)
• Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
• Edited by Andre Vanchey
• The Hajj The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the
  Holy Places
• F. E. Peters
• Eastward Bound
• Rosamund Allen
• Virtual Pilgrimage http//crusades.boisestate.edu/
  vpilgrim/intro.shtml