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The purpose of Christian pilgrimage was summarized by Pope Benedict XVI this way: To go on pilgrimage is not simply to visit a place to admire its treasures of nature, art or history.
This is a list of sites notable as destinations of Christian pilgrimage, sorted by region and by (modern) country. This page has a wider view of the topic, while the "pilgrimage church" page offers Catholic sites.
Pilgrimages of Christians, journeys, often into unknown or foreign places, where a person goes in search of new or expanded meaning about their self, others, nature, or a higher good, through the experience.
Many Christian churches make a distinction between a sacred language, a liturgical language, and a vernacular language. The three most important languages in the early Christian era were Latin, Greek, and Syriac (a dialect of Aramaic).
The Camino de Santiago (Latin: Peregrinatio Compostellana, lit. ' Pilgrimage of Compostela '; Galician: O Camiño de Santiago), or in English the Way of St. James, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle James in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition holds that the remains of the apostle are buried.
Christian pilgrimage was first made to sites connected with the birth, life, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. Aside from the early example of Origen in the third century, surviving descriptions of Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land date from the 4th century, when pilgrimage was encouraged by church fathers including Saint Jerome , and ...
The word Mosalman ( Persian: مسلمان, alternatively Mussalman) is a common equivalent for Muslim used in Central and South Asia. In English it was sometimes spelled Mussulman and has become archaic in usage; however, cognates of this word remain the standard term for "Muslim" in various other European languages.
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