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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. | [[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. | 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. | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
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Revision as of 17:51, 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
Nonfiction cross-reference
Fiction cross-reference
External links
- Pilgrimage @ Wikipedia