Faith matters: The purpose of pilgrimage
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Posts by Dr Anne E Bailey
Finding your own way on the Camino de Santiago
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St Clare's Oratory at San Damiano, Assisi.
Restored in 1205 by St Francis, San Damiano became the convent of the Poor Clares in 1212. St Clare died here in 1253.
📸2025
Santiago de Compostela Airport Closure: Thousands of Brits to be impacted, dates Spanish airport to shut
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The remarkable early-Norman crypt (1078) at St Mary's, Lastingham (North Yorks).
Burial place of St Cedd incorporating Saxon stone from the earlier church, and complete with nave, apse and side aisles.
Time peels away as you descend into this special ancient place!
📸2025
Johnny Massaro & Rodrigo Santoro To Lead Netflix’s ‘The Pilgrimage’; Cameras Roll On Paulo Coelho Adaptation
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No, but I shall make a note to do so when I'm next in the area!
St Roan's Chapel, Iona. Parish church of Iona between 1200-1560 but constructed on earlier site from the time of St Columba.
📸2018
Yes. Already have!
Anglo-Saxon Crypt, Ripon Cathedral. An extraordinary survivor from St Wilfrid's original AD 672 church.
📸2025
15th century painted wood panels at Hexham Abbey that includes (middle tier) 4 scenes illustrating the Dance of Death.
📸2025
St Agnes Well, Cothelstone, Somerset. Late medieval well house restored in the 19th century.
📸2023
To Be a Pilgrim
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OTD: the feast day of St. Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes.
Pictured: her relics in the crypt of the Immaculate Conception Basilica, Lourdes. 😇
📸2023
Around 350,000 people are set to descend on Alicante for Spain's second-largest pilgrimage walk
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Reviewer: "I enjoy the concept of this, but struggle a little with the idea that a pilgrimage seems mostly to be understood as a 'me' project, an undertaking of self-improvement."
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Sanctuary knocker at Durham Cathedral, now displayed in the cathedral museum. (A replica now adorns the North Door.)
The Right of Sanctuary, said to have been first conferred on the church by King Alfred, was abolished in 1624.
📸2025
The famous medieval icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa at Jasna Góra Monastery, Poland.
📸2022
Holy Well at St Columba's birth place, Gartan, Donegal. The well features as one of the stations ('turais') at this popular pilgrimage site.
📸2023
"Pope Leo XIV is following in the footsteps of St. Augustine, making a pilgrimage to the archaeological ruins of eastern Algeria where the fifth century titan of early Christianity lived, died & wrote some of the most important works in Western thought."
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14,000 register in first day for 2026 Paris–Chartres pilgrimage
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New ‘Tyndale Trail’ launched to mark 500 years of English New Testament
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Orthodox Christian pilgrims flock to Jerusalem for Holy Fire ceremony www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
Happy Orthodox Easter! 🐣
We have a family of five Ukrainian refugees living with us and the grandmother (affectionately known as Babushka) was up before dawn preparing the traditional Ukrainian breakfast.
New Churches Discovered in Türkiye’s “Thousand and One Churches” Reveal Lost Byzantine Pilgrimage Center
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Remembering my mother, Sheila, on what would have been her 93rd birthday (d. 03/06/2024).🎶🐎🐕
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