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- “headed off in the search for meaning”
- “All faiths embrace, to varying degrees, the concept of pilgrimage.”
- “thin places, set apart from the world, moving to a different drum, and possessed of an innately special atmosphere because of their connection to another, higher dimension.”
- “When there, the distinction between the visible and the invisible can fade, and a door open onto another mind-set.”
- “four essential Es of a new generation of pilgrims — Exercise, Exploration, Environment and Escape.”
- “Why, in our otherwise markedly secular and sceptical times, especially in the developed world where numbers of those who describe themselves as religious is in rapid decline, are people actively seeking out places whose history is soaked in the sort of faith that is anathema to them?”
- “‘Every day is a journey and the journey itself is home.’”
- “‘walking with a purpose’.” tourist – traveler- wanderer
- “just 43 per cent of peregrinos today use the word ‘religious’ to describe their motivation.”
- “The shell has also subsequently evolved into a symbol of pilgrimage in general, as invoked in “The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage’, a poem by Sir Walter Ralegh,”
- “the ‘Full Camino’ begins around thirty-five days’ walk from the tomb of Saint James at the small French town of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (Saint-John-at-the-Foot-of-the-Pass) in the shadow ofthe Pyrenees.”
- “‘Santiago Matamoros’ (‘Saint James the Moor-slayer’), with his Muslim victims trampled under the hoofs of his steed.”
- “The upswing in medieval pilgrims seeking a safer alternative to Rome or Jerusalem encouraged the French in particular to facilitate the founding by monastic orders or guilds of the abbeys, churches and hostels that continue to line the Way.”
- “In a world where we have come ever more to see ourselves as individuals, where contact with others is via electronic means, walking the Camino offers the antidote.”
- “As the German poet and playwright, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is said to have remarked,”
- “‘Europe was born on the pilgrim road to Santiago.’”
- “San Fermin in July, immortalized by Ernest Hemingway in his 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises.”
- “Their original bells, seized in 997 when the army of the Muslim Caliph of Cordoba took Santiago, destroyed Alfonso’s original building, but left the shrine of Saint James miraculously untouched”
- “there is a different sort of healing, something that prepares these pilgrims, after taking time out to walk the Camino, to re-enter and re-engage with the everyday world, strengthened by their memories, experiences and the scallop shell they carry with them.”
- “CHAP BERe2”
- “Jerusalem is simultaneously sacred to three. Abraham, Jesus and Muhammad are all said to feature in its story.”
- “For some in the West, Christianity may be synonymous with European civilization, but it is in origin a Near Eastern reform movement from within Judaism.”
- “the temple had been laid to waste in 597 BCE by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar,”
- “Jerusalem, regarded by Jews as the capital of Israel (though not by most foreign governments),”
- “‘the divine Presence never departs from the Western Wall’.”
- “l-Aqsa, in Arabic, means ‘furthest’.”
- “Buraq”
- “Angel Jibril (Gabriel),”
- “The Dome ofthe Rock is an Islamic shrine,”
- “Ka‘bah in Mecca”
- “Prophet’s burial place in Medina”
- “prayer in the Al-Aqsa is said to be worth 500 prayers in any other mosque than Mecca and Medina.”
- “facing towards Jerusalem”
- “the Church of the Holy Sepulchre a”
- “the Venerable Bede,”
- “able – in a way that most in the modern age can no longer manage – to hold on to two sorts of truth simultaneously, the physical and the metaphysical:”
- “the Christian writer and teacher Procopius, based at the celebrated school of religious thinkers at Gaza,”
- “those who fought the good fight to take back Jerusalem”
- “would, he decreed, be undertaking a form of atonement for their earthly sins.”
- “he First Crusade (there were six more major ones, and a host of minor versions)”
- “hen Godfrey successfully captured Jerusalem for Christianity in 1099, its Muslim population was promised safety if they gathered in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, but instead were slaughtered.”
- “Godfrey declined the ultimate prize of being crowned King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. He could never, he protested ‘wear a crown of gold when my saviour [Jesus] wore a crown of thorns’.”
- “protector of the city.”
- “Baldwin”
- “Knights Templar”
- “1291 with the defeat in Syria of the last Christian kingdom in the region.”
- “The revenue they brought in was judged too valuable to lose.”
- “the enduring belief that how you get there is just as important as what you do and see when you arrive.”
- “feeling ‘unmoored’:”
- “feeling ‘unmoored’: ‘I was looking for a way out, out of my job, out of my life.’”
- “religious ritual can be nourishing, independent of whether you believe.”
- “an interior life” Hollow people
- “at the end of days, the Messiah will appear on the Mount of Olives and make his way to the Temple,”
- “Cte Pakeo”
- “‘salve, santa Roma’ (‘Hail, holy Rome’).’”
- “a den of corruption, vice and degradation.”
- “‘Pellegrino’ [pilgrim]. I had travelled under the protection which this word still provides.”
- “the centre of the empire that ruled Jerusalem at the time of Jesus”
- “a ‘plenary indulgence’,”
- “to reduce the time their deceased loved ones would have to spend in the anteroom of purgatory before being admitted into heaven.”
- “one of the five pillars of Islam,”
- “All pilgrimage sites have, to some extent, the capacity to evoke a sense of stepping outside the everyday world and”
- “gaining a new perspective.”
- “El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz,”
- “In 570, Mecca was the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad.”
- “the Zamzam Well,”
- “he most significant human figure in hajj not himself but Ibrahim (Abraham). This biblical patriarch is as central to Islam as he is to Judaism and Christianity. In Mecca, Muhammad taught, Muslims were walking in the footprints of Ibrahim.”
- “Husayn ibn Ali and his brother Abbas, grandsons of Muhammad and sons ofthe fourth caliph,”
- “Sunnis, who today make up around 80 per cent of Muslims, and Shi’a (15 per cent).”
- “Karbala”
- “It is estimated that anything up to eight million pilgrims come each year — making Karbala the biggest shrine in Islam, ahead of Mecca.”
- “anti-clockwise,”
- “Because the Islamic calendar is based on the moon, each year is ten or eleven days shorter than in a standard calendar, and so the period of hajj”
- “Prayers are offered in line with the Prophet’s words: ‘the pilgrim intercedes for 400 of his relatives and is as sinless as on the day his mother gave birth to him’.”
- “Too much veneration of relics of the past — in this case the old city of Mecca – could amount to Islam’s gravest sin: worshipping anyone or thing other than Allah.”
- “the Lalibela complex.”
- “Orthodox Christians”
- “Saint George’s – named after the patron saint of Ethiopia’s Orthodox Christians, who make up 44 per cent of their country’s population —”
- “(Greek Orthodoxy has the same liturgy now as it did in the fourth century),”
- “in 1858, a peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous,”
- “healing”
- “Guadalupe in Mexico, Fatima in Portugal, Medjugorje in former Yugoslavia, Knock in Ireland”
- “Walsingham”
- “Colm Téibin,”
- “Medjugorje’s story (its name means ‘between the mountains’) t”
- “just a single day, as at Knock in western Ireland in 1879,”
- “The Qur’an gives special importance to Maryam, or Mary, where she is the only woman named in its pages,”
- “he sixth-century Irish saint Brendan the Voyager, according to a celebrated account of his life,””
- “A key concept for the Celts was the notion of finding God ‘in exile’ — the belief that, if they travelled to the furthest reaches of the known world, they would be closer to heaven. It was thus both a spiritual and a physical endeavour.”
- “Bardsey”
- “nce in this spot where the gap between heaven and earth was shorter than at any other point,”
- “John O’Donohue, become an international wordof-mouth bestseller.4 A”
- “The Synod of Whitby in 664”
- “Inaccessibility and holiness were connected, as of course they are, according to Christian teaching, when it comes to heaven.”
- “KUMBH MELA”
- “he word used for pilgrimage is tirtha, meaning a crossing, a ford or a bridge over a river.”
- “sins”
- “The non-Hindus among them are known to locals asfirangis — or outsiders.”
- “Xuan Zang, a Chinese Buddhist monk who spent seventeen years journeying in India during the T’ang dynasty.”
- “the East India Company that invented Kumbh Mela as a ‘brand’.”
- “Sometimes referred to as a sect of Hinduism, Sikhism is more properly a body of beliefs, founded at the end of the fifteenth century in India by Guru Nanak, drawing on both Hindu and Islamic sources, as well as distinctive ideas and practices.”
- “Kumbh Mela. It brings all Hindus together,”
- “Bodh Gaya.”
- “said to be the place where the Buddha first achieved enlightenment 2,500 years ago.”
- “594 BcE”
- “29-year-old Siddhartha Gotama”
- “bandoning his wife and recently born son,”
- “his death at the age of 80,”
- “a wheel of suffering that binds humankind.”
- “Ananda”
- “Thus the pilgrim has a special status in Buddhism.”
- “In the Buddhist scriptures, there is active encouragement to become a ‘wanderer’,”
- “mindfulness, Buddhism”
- “Many of the Indian pilgrims will be Hindus, the demarcation between their faith and Buddhism blurred, with shared beliefs in dhamma and reincarnation, but differences on the role of a creator god and the caste system.”
- “wiped out in India from the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries,”
- “‘rediscover’”
- “he defencelessness of those Buddhists at the great monasteries and shrines.”
- “In legend, he was born talking, his first words being, ‘this is my last birth’.”
- “Shikoku”
- “Kukai, born in 774,”
- “88-temple walk,”
- “peregrinos or henro,”
- “Kobo Daishi.”
- “All faiths have their significant numbers — three, seven, ten, twelve, forty”
- “Pilgrimage has usually been regarded as a collective endeavour,”
- “Pilgrim Fathers,”
- “Peace Pilgrim (she didn’t like the definite article to be attached)”
- “Seeing Washington became for many Americans something akin to a civic pilgrimage to a constitutionally, and nationally, sacred shrine.”
- “at 22 per cent of the population, Catholics now make up the single largest religious group in the United States, with nearly half of all Americans reporting some connection to Catholicism.”
- “Chimayo”
- “Hill Cumorah,”
- “Moroni.”
- “once he had completed his translation, the angel took back the plates.”
- “Machu Picchu – ‘old peak’ in the local Quechua”
- “there is the how”
- “TO ARRIVE WHERE WE STARTED”
- “To go on pilgrimage is to join a human chain whose links stretch back through millennia on a journey that takes us — whether religious, spiritual or neither of the above — to where once ‘prayer has been valid’.”
- “Oscar Romero.”
- “bishop of San Salvador from 1977 to 1980,”
- “two purposes, the first faith-based and the second secular.”
- “the gift of the companionship of a group”
- “What pilgrimage is about, however circuitously, is taking a longer, slower, and hence more profound look at life, and doing it in a way that modern existence finds hard to accommodate — by stopping, pausing and reflecting, usually in the company of others, living and dead.”
- “arrive where we started And know the place for the firsttime”
