Ten years after Chaucer, again, the Lollard Thorpe was tried before Archbishop Arundel, and painted pilgrimages exactly as Chaucer's Poor Parson would have described them.
For a century at least before he wrote, pilgrimages had been gradually becoming journeys rather of pleasure than of duty, for those who could afford the necessary expense which they entailed.
The crusades themselves werepilgrimages en masse, as contemporary chroniclers often remind us.
For centuries Christians had made pilgrimages to Bethlehem and Jerusalem, the holy places where their Lord had been born and had been crucified.
Besides purely local ones, there were others to whichpilgrimages were made from far and near.
Therefore it is that he impresses it so often and so earnestly on the people of the provinces that in their sacrificial pilgrimages to Jerusalem they ought not to forget the Levite of their native place, but should carry him with them.
Not a single voice demanded the abolition of pilgrimagesor the destruction of images or the reform of public worship.
Pilgrimages were suppressed; the excessive number of holy days was curtailed; the worship of images and relics was discouraged in words which seemed almost copied from the protest of Erasmus.
Beside the pilgrimages to the Kaaba pious Mussulmans also visit the sacred granite mountains the "Arafat where Adam is supposed to have met Eve after a long separation.
Pilgrimages and offerings to mountain summits formed a part of the duties of the Mexican priesthood, but in the cities the pyramid temple served as a convenient substitute for the mountain.
She was reading a book on the miracles accomplished by pilgrimages to the shrine of Our Lady of the Angels, in the mountains.
For with the approach of Lent pilgrimages had greatly increased in numbers.
In 1877 I made two pilgrimageswhich left memorable impressions.
Most of them are very thin and spare of flesh, which is due to their longpilgrimages and insufficient nourishment.
For ages, however, it continued to be regarded as a very holy shrine, and the men of Wexford made frequent pilgrimages to the grave of its holy founder.
This no doubt gave rise to the custom in England of making pilgrimages to the Mother Church of the Diocese, i.
The name, doubtless, had its origin from the ancient custom of makingpilgrimages to the Mother Church or Cathedral of the Diocese.
And the same dreams showed themselves in the naivete of the means which were to be employed and of the object which was to be attained--the deliverance of nations, the building of churches, the processional pilgrimages of the faithful!
I am pleased that you are with us, my friend," he gently said; "for there is much in these pilgrimages for young priests to profit by.
There were also pilgrimages to Compostella: to Rome: to Cologne: and other places.
At the door of each church a tablet tells the dates of the pilgrimages and the number of indulgences to be gained; the general list of the pilgrimages and of the indulgences is also sold separately.
As a proof of this we shall narrate the pilgrimages of two distinguished personages of those times.
As, according to their doctrine, he is an incarnate ray of the Divinity, they hold him in the utmost veneration, and make pilgrimages from the most distant places to obtain his blessing.
At Mecca the great object of worship was a plain black stone, and to it pilgrimages were made from every part of Arabia.
In 939, however, the stone was restored and pilgrimages to the holy cities were allowed to pass unmolested on payment of a tax.
Before his marriage in 1814, Allan made five other pilgrimages to Europe; and once, after his marriage, he crossed the Atlantic again.
On Tuesday, Melville made another of his many pilgrimages to the old book stores about Great Green Street and Lincoln’s Inn.
It has happened, quite without my making intentional pilgrimage, that I have been in many places where Queen Mary has been; and willingly I have made my accidental pilgrimages of loyalty.
In his book of Scotch pilgrimages when William Winter was on his way to St. Andrews, past Kirkcaldy, he wrote "gazing as I pass at its quaint church among the graves.
Monks who made pilgrimages to the Holy Land, during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, sometimes pressed farther east, and made mention of strange mounds seen in the valleys of these ancient rivers.
There were great gatherings in honor of the gods, in the nature of pilgrimages or holy fairs, which were celebrated with festivity, with noisy music, with illuminations, and with license.
This idol lying under water for some time after the Deluge, was at length, it is said, discovered by the devil, and was worshipped by those of Hodhail, who instituted pilgrimages to it.
Had he said the hearts of men, absolutely, the Persians and the Romans would also have treated them as friends; and both the Jews and Christians would have made their pilgrimages to Mecca.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pilgrimages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
