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3 unusual facts about pilgrims


Newnham, Kent

The valley road was a highway in Norman times, linking the Roman Watling Street (Dover and Canterbury to London, the A2) to the Pilgrims' Way on the other side of the downs.

Pilgrims' Way

On modern Ordnance Survey maps, part of the route is shown running east from Farnham, passing to the south of Guildford, north of the village of Gomshall, north of Dorking, Reigate, Merstham, Chaldon, Godstone, Limpsfield and Westerham, through Otford, Kemsing and Wrotham, north of Trottiscliffe, towards Cuxton (where it crossed the River Medway).

Westerham railway station

No railway was ever constructed all the way between Sevenoaks and Redhill to parallel what is now the A25 road and the Pilgrims' Way.


2000 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre

2000 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre was the massacre of 30 people, mostly Hindu pilgrims, by Kashmiri separatist militants on 1 August 2000 in Pahalgam town located in Anantnag district, Kashmir, India.

A Philosopher by Lamplight

Shells were the sign of pilgrims but they were also the emblem of the Darwin family which included Erasmus Darwin who was a leading member of the Lunar Society and Derby Philosophical Society which linked key men in the age of enlightenment.

Antoine Kambanda

In June 2011 he led five hundred Rwandan pilgrims to Namugongo, Uganda, to join the Martyrs Day ceremonies.

Archdiocesan Boy Choir of Philadelphia

In 1995 the choir sang at the shrine of Our Lady of Fátima, Portugal, for processions and special masses in which over one-half million pilgrims participated.

Assumptionists

In 1873 these religious also began a series of large-scale pilgrimages both within France and to the Holy Land which developed into such current endeavors as the popular national pilgrimage to Lourdes every year on the occasion of the feast of the Assumption, gathering thousands of pilgrims.

Austin McCann

McCann played 88 games in two seasons for the Pilgrims, scoring 1 goal, before joining Notts County when his contract at York Street expired in the summer of 2006.

Bawtry

Bawtry has a school called Bawtry Mayflower School named after the ship Mayflower, which took William Bradford, leader of the Pilgrims, to the Americas, settling the first Plymouth Colony.

Bektashi Order

This tekke is found in the Detroit suburb of Taylor and the tomb (türbe) of Baba Rexheb continues to draw pilgrims of all faiths.

Deucalion

took his children, their wives, and pairs of animals with him on the ark, and later built a great temple in Manbij (northern Syria), on the site of the chasm that received all the waters; he further describes how pilgrims brought vessels of sea water to this place twice a year, from as far as Arabia and Mesopotamia, to commemorate this event.

Düren–Neuss railway

On the morning of 5 September 1937, a serious railway accident occurred in Holzheim station: a special train running from Rommerskirchen with 800 pilgrims on pilgrimage to Kevelaer was derailed.

Haj subsidy

In 2008, the Supreme Court of India decided to permit the Haj subsidy to continue, citing the example of the subsidies (Rs200 per person) provided for pilgrims to Lake Manasarovar in Tibet.

Harry Rowe Shelley

Shelley was organist at the Church of the Pilgrims during the ministry of Henry Ward Beecher and played at his funeral.

Henry David Leslie

Some of these became very popular, including the trio "O memory", "The Pilgrims", and "Annabelle Lee" set to a poem by Edgar Allan Poe.

History of the Puritans in North America

In 1620, after receiving a patent from the London Company, the Pilgrims left for New England on board the Mayflower, landing at Plymouth Rock.

Jabal Thawr

The cave is still visited by a very small number of the pilgrims while observing the Hajj—the small number is due to its distance from Mecca.

Jacques Le Goff

In his 1984 book The Birth of Purgatory, he argued that the conception of purgatory as a physical place, rather than merely as a state, dates to the 12th century, the heyday of medieval otherworld-journey narratives such as the Irish Visio Tnugdali, and of pilgrims' tales about St Patrick's Purgatory, a cavelike entrance to purgatory on a remote island in Ireland.

John Robert Godley

The Randolph, the Cressy, the Sir George Seymour, and the Charlotte Jane all carried pilgrims and supplies for the planned colony.

Josephus Flavius Cook

Josephus Flavius Cook (1838–1901), commonly known as Joseph Cook, was an American philosophical lecturer, a descendant of Pilgrims who started his ascent to fame by way of Monday noon prayer meetings in Tremont Temple in Boston that for more than twenty years were among the city's greatest attractions.

Kazan Kremlin

On July 21, 2005, the feast day of the holy icon "Theotokos of Kazan", in the presence of the crowd of 10,000 pilgrims, Patriarch Alexius II and Mintimer Shaeymiev placed at the newly restored Annunciation Cathedral the holiest copy of the long-lost icon, which had been returned to Russia by Pope John Paul II shortly before his death.

Kirikuküla, Kaarma Parish

Originally, this room may have served as a refuge in times of trouble, but later probably served visiting pilgrims from nearby Gotland.

Legend of Saint Ursula

It describes the arrival of the pilgrims, accompanied by the Pope, at Cologne, then under siege by the Huns.

Maria Taferl

Another reason for Maria Taferl's importance as a pilgrimage destination was the stone cross, a gift from the citizens of Freistadt for pilgrims who died on the journey.

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

That it is a religious allegory of Catholicism, with bells representing the sanctus bells, the cockleshells the badges of the pilgrims to the shrine of Saint James in Spain (Santiago de Compostela) and pretty maids are nuns, but even within this strand of thought there are differences of opinion as to whether it is lament for the reinstatement of Catholicism or for its persecution.

Minor basilica

The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Mexico City, is considered the second most important sanctuary of Roman Catholicism, second to the Vatican City on the basis of the number of pilgrims it hosts each year (between 12 and 20 million).

Pal, India

The rally accompanied with lots of villagers and chief persons Karkhana The procession moves from the bed of river where there lots of pilgrims usually camp to see the rally and worship.

Palaiometocho

Its name was given to it because it used to be a rest stop used by pilgrims who visited the Kykkos Monastery.

Philipp Jeningen

He served at the shrine of Our Lady of Schönenberg, near Ellwangen in Swabia, which had been made famous by the Jesuits, and to which Jeningen, through the renown of his holiness, drew pilgrims from near and far.

Pilgrim Memorial State Park

Massasoit and his generosity towards the Pilgrims helped to ensure their success, and so the next fall, after the plentiful harvest, Wampanoag and Pilgrim alike gathered at the Plymouth settlement for a three-day feast known today as the first Thanksgiving.

Pilgrims Publishing

H. W. Tilman, Nepal Himalaya (Pilgrims Publishing), ISBN 81-7303-107-X

Posta, Burrabazar

The Posta Raj family had once constructed the road from Cuttack to Puri, in order that pilgrims could travel easily to the Jagannath temple.

Ramgarh Cantonment

Rajrappa Temple: 28 km from Ramgarh Cantonment is a panoramic view of the merging of river Bhairavi and Damodar, near Mata Chhinmastika Temple visited by lakhs of visitors and pilgrims every year.

Roads to Santiago

The book was reviewed in Publishers Weekly: "The pilgrims' route to the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain has long been a favorite subject of travel writers, but few have covered it as entertainingly, quirkily and, finally, movingly as Dutch essayist Nooteboom (The Following Story)."

Robert D. San Souci

N.C. Wyeth's Pilgrims (1991) (illustrated by murals begun by Wyeth for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company)

Robert Sturmy

In 1445 he sponsored a voyage conveying 200 pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia and in 1447 his ship the Cog Anne took pilgrims to Jaffa in Palestine but was wrecked off Greece on the return voyage, with the loss of 37 lives.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk

Prominent among the places of pilgrimage in the diocese is Maria Saal, visited annually by from 15,000 to 20,000 pilgrims.

Roman roads in Britain

Chaucer's pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales almost certainly used Watling Street to travel from Southwark to Canterbury.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

In April he reached Kalka, a small town below Simla, a prematurely aged figure in his yellow robe among pilgrims and holy men who were beginning their own trek to one of Hinduism's holy places some miles away.

San Salvador Historic Downtown

During his visits in 1983 and 1996, the Pope knelt and prayed before the Tomb of Archbishop Óscar Romero, assassinated in 1980, whose tomb here is a major draw for pilgrims.

Sir Thopas

The tale is one of two—together with The Tale of Melibee—told by the fictive Geoffrey Chaucer as he travels with the pilgrims on the journey to Canterbury Cathedral.

The tale is one of two told by the fictive Chaucer, along with the Tale of Melibee, who figures as one of the pilgrims who are on a journey to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.

Southampton Old Bowling Green

The Hospital of "God's House" was originally founded in 1185 for pilgrims who were going either to the shrine of St Swithun at Winchester or to Canterbury; until 2011, the gateway housed the museum of archaeology.

Spittal, Pembrokeshire

Its name is a corruption of the word Hospital, which is also the root of such names as Spitalfields, London, Spital, Merseyside, Spital-in-the-Street, Lincolnshire, etc: the village possessed a hospitium (place of accommodation for pilgrims) belonging to the Cathedral of St David's.

St. Stephen's Church, St. Albans

Although there are now some questions about the exact date of its foundation (and the date of Abbot Ulsinus), it is reasonably clear that, together with St Michael's and St Peter's churches, the church was built at about that time to receive pilgrims and to prepare them for their visit to the shrine of St Alban within St Albans Abbey.

Tamale Airport

The Airport has already received some international flights from South Africa, Tunisia and Angola during the CAN 2008 African Cup of nations, and it is hoped that with the addition of more facilities it would now be in the position to fly pilgrims from the north straight to Mecca, Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj.

Vézelay

In 1058 Pope Stephen IX confirmed the genuineness of the relics, leading to an influx of pilgrims that has continued to this day.

Weetamoo

She had five husbands, the most famous of whom was Wamsutta, the eldest son of Massasoit, grand sachem of the Wampanoag and participant in the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims.


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