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5 unusual facts about The Pilgrim


A Tangled Web

Margaret then sells a first edition of The Pilgrim's Progress that she inherited from Aunt Becky and uses the money to buy a house for herself and to adopt Brian, an illegitimate and lonely orphan who is largely neglected by the family.

Frederic Crowninshield

One of his best-known works is a stained-glass window depicting John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, entitled "Emmanuel's Land", at the Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Boston.

Quidam Pilgrim

The band's first work has been a musical setting of the classic "The Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan, with each song referring to a scene in the Pilgrim’s journey.

Symington, South Ayrshire

The original Slough of Despond is a deep bog in John Bunyan's allegory The Pilgrim's Progress into which the character Christian sinks under the weight of his sins and his sense of guilt for them.

The Pilgrim's Regress

It is Lewis's personal revision of John Bunyan's 17th century novel, The Pilgrim's Progress, recast with the politics, philosophy and aesthetic principles of the early 20th century.


E. H. Wehnert

Among the many for which he furnished the drawings were Grimm's Fairy Tales (1853); Keats's Eve of St. Agnes (1856); Coleridge's Ancient Mariner (1857); The Pilgrim's Progress (1858); Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales (1861); Robinson Crusoe (1862); and Edgar Allan Poe's Poetical Works (1865).

Gosmore

One interesting feature is Bunyan's Dell, a natural amphitheatre deep inside Wain Wood where the author of The Pilgrim's Progress preached in secret when his faith was persecuted after the Restoration.

Harold Copping

His illustrations for non-religious books included Hammond's Hard Lines (1894), Miss Bobbie (1897), Millionaire (1898), A Queen Among Girls (1900), The Pilgrim's Progress (1903), Westward Ho! (1903), Grace Abounding (1905), Three School Chums (1907), Little Women (1912), Good Wives (1913), A Christmas Carol (1920) and Character Sketches from Boz (1924).

Millbrook, Bedfordshire

The vale adjoining Millbrook is reputed to be the location that inspired the 'Slough of Despond' in John Bunyan's 'The Pilgrim's Progress'.

Rita Connolly

She is primarily known for her work with composer Shaun Davey who wrote a song cycle for her called 'Granuaile' based on the 16th-century pirate queen Gráinne O'Malley as well as including her in other of his works such as 'The Relief of Derry Symphony', 'The Pilgrim Suite' and his Special Olympics music which was specially composed in 2003.

Shalford, Surrey

Some claim that the author of The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan, once lived in the village and drew his inspiration from the fair, and from the ancient route known as the Pilgrims' Way, which passes nearby, on its way to Canterbury.

Valley of the Shadows

The title is perhaps inspired by Psalm 23 in the Bible, but is probably more likely to be a reference to 'The Valley of the Shadow of Death' in Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress', which was itself inspired by the Psalm.


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Albin Polasek

Notable among those are The Pilgrim and The Mother (1927), both located in the Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago, and the Pilgrim at the Eternal Gate in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.

Barton Chapel

The Congregational church in Robbins was established in 1885 as the Pilgrim Church.

Charles Francis Coghlan

Buckstone passed on the play, but instead gave him the chance to play Monsieur Mafoi, a small role in “The Pilgrim of Love” a play adapted by Lord Byron from Irving’s “Legends of the Alhambra” that opened at the Haymarket on, April 9, 1860.

Derek Tidball

"The Pilgrim and the Tourist: Zygmunt Bauman and Postmodern Identity" in Craig Bartholomew and Fred Hughes (eds.), Explorations in a Christian Theology of Pilgrimage (Ashgate, 2004)

Driva

As a result of the heavy stream of pilgrims who followed the Pilgrim's Route prior to the Reformation, king Øystein erected mountain stations where the pilgrims could find food and shelter.

Ed McIntyre

A graduate of Morehouse College, McIntyre worked for the Pilgrim Health Life Insurance Company before entering politics.

Flaithbertach Ua Néill

He abdicated in 1030 and undertook a pilgrimage to Rome, for which reason he was known as Flaithbertach an Trostáin (Flaithbertach of the Pilgrim's staff).

Hans Feibusch

He worked in a number of Anglican churches in the Diocese of Chichester, including the Pilgrim's progress at St Elisabeth's Eastbourne, Christ in Majesty at St Mary's Church, Goring-by-Sea, the Prodigal Son in All Saints, Iden, and St John Baptising Christ in the baptistery at Chichester Cathedral.

Hans-Thorald Michaelis

On the basis of these researches he could prove that all descendants in direct line of his grand-grandmother Mary Barbara Rennie (1836−1920) from the Rennie-Clan of Kilsyth, are also direct descendants from the pilgrims father William Bradford (1590−1657).

Henry Mellus

Henry sailed "around the horn" with Richard Henry Dana, Jr. on the ship named the Pilgrim, and arrived in California in 1835.

History of the Puritans in North America

Two of the Pilgrim settlers in Plymouth Colony - Robert Cushman and Edward Winslow - believed that Cape Ann would be a profitable location for a settlement.

Linda Adams

As a session singer, she has recorded with Maddie Southorn on "The Pilgrim Soul" (2005), and with Bram Taylor, Rick Kemp, John Wright, Sara Grey, Hughie Jones, Martyn Wyndham-Read, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, John Connolly and many others.

M. K. Binodini Devi

It was during the years just before and during World War II, at a time when she lived with her mother in the pilgrim town of Nabadwip in Bengal, that Binodini was introduced to her greatest literary influence: the Bengali literature of Saratchandra Chatterjee, Bankimchandra Chatterjee, Rabindranath Tagore and Michael Madhusudan Dutt.

Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure

The film was directed by George Schaefer and stars Anthony Hopkins as Captain Christopher Jones, Richard Crenna as the Pilgrim leader William Brewster and Jenny Agutter as Priscilla Mullens.

Oliver La Farge

He was a descendant of Gov. Thomas Prence (1599 - March 29, 1673) a co-founder of Eastham, Massachusetts, a political leader in both the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies, and governor of Plymouth (1634, 1638, and 1657–1673); and Elder William Brewster (pilgrim), (c. 1567 - April 10, 1644), the Pilgrim leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.

Paul Hastings Allen

Born in Massachusetts, he composed a symphony, titled the Pilgrim, which won the Paderewski Prize in 1908.

Pharaoh's Island

By the time of the 13th century, when the pilgrim Thietmar passed the island in 1217, the entire place was inhabited by a fishing village and populated by Muslims and captive Franks.

Pilgrim Trust Lecture

The Pilgrim Trust Lecture was a lecture supported by the Pilgrim Trust, organised by the Royal Society of London and the National Academy of Sciences.

Pilgrim's Route

Although the Pilgrim's Route over the Dovrefjell mountains is only one of several Old Kings' Roads in Norway, it is arguably the most famous.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Girona

Honoured with papal prerogatives relating to the pilgrim routes to Santiago de Compostela, the Church of Le Puy assumed a sort of informal primacy in respect to most of the Churches of France, and even of Christendom, manifesting itself practically in a 'right to beg', established with the authorization of the Holy See, in virtue of which the chapter of Le Puy levied a veritable tax upon almost all the Christian countries to support its hospital of Notre-Dame.

Selah B. Strong

She was also a descendant of Elder William Brewster, (c. 1567 – April 10, 1644), the Pilgrim leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower, through his son Jonathan Brewster.

Shyambazar

Sutanuti had no roads, except the pilgrim path extending across it from Halisahar to Barisha.

The Pilgrimage of the Soul

The pilgrim in Âme, when he needs an advocate to speak for him in the heavenly court, appeals to monastic patrons such as St. Benedict and St. Bernard.

The Way of a Pilgrim

Therefore, it was "between those two dates," 1853 and 1861, that the Pilgrim arrived at Irkutsk and found a spiritual father, two of the major events in the Pilgrim's narrative.