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[[File:Etienne of Burgundy pilgrimage to Saint Victor of Marseilles.jpg|thumb|Etienne of Burgundy pilgrimage to Saint Victor of Marseilles.]]A '''pilgrimage''' is a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance. | |||
Typically, it is a journey to a shrine or other location of importance to a person's beliefs and faith, although sometimes it can be a metaphorical journey into someone's own beliefs. | |||
== | Many religions attach spiritual importance to particular places: the place of birth or death of founders or saints, or to the place of their "calling" or spiritual awakening, or of their connection (visual or verbal) with the divine, to locations where miracles were performed or witnessed, or locations where a deity is said to live or be "housed," or any site that is seen to have special spiritual powers. | ||
Such sites may be commemorated with shrines or temples that devotees are encouraged to visit for their own spiritual benefit: to be healed or have questions answered or to achieve some other spiritual benefit. | |||
A person who makes such a journey is called a pilgrim. As a common human experience, pilgrimage has been proposed as a Jungian archetype by Wallace Clift and Jean Dalby Clift. | |||
== In the News == | |||
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File:Geometers_program_medievel_pilgrimage.jpg|link=Pilgrimage|[[Pilgrimage|Geometers refactor medieval pilgrimage]]. | |||
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== Fiction cross-reference == | == Fiction cross-reference == | ||
* [[Demonstrative Pilgrimage]] | |||
* [[Pilgrimage]] | * [[Pilgrimage]] | ||
== External links | == Nonfiction cross-reference == | ||
* [[Pilgrim (image) (nonfiction)]] | |||
External links: | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrimage Pilgrimage] @ Wikipedia | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrimage Pilgrimage] @ Wikipedia | ||
[[Category:Nonfiction (nonfiction)]] | [[Category:Nonfiction (nonfiction)]] | ||
Latest revision as of 18:10, 9 September 2018
A pilgrimage is a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance.
Typically, it is a journey to a shrine or other location of importance to a person's beliefs and faith, although sometimes it can be a metaphorical journey into someone's own beliefs.
Many religions attach spiritual importance to particular places: the place of birth or death of founders or saints, or to the place of their "calling" or spiritual awakening, or of their connection (visual or verbal) with the divine, to locations where miracles were performed or witnessed, or locations where a deity is said to live or be "housed," or any site that is seen to have special spiritual powers.
Such sites may be commemorated with shrines or temples that devotees are encouraged to visit for their own spiritual benefit: to be healed or have questions answered or to achieve some other spiritual benefit.
A person who makes such a journey is called a pilgrim. As a common human experience, pilgrimage has been proposed as a Jungian archetype by Wallace Clift and Jean Dalby Clift.
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links:
- Pilgrimage @ Wikipedia