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The significance of the pilgrimage is in both the journey and the destination, with each pilgrim having their own sense of the relative importance of those two elements. During the COVID lock-down the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Chief Rabbi were amongst several Christian and Jewish leaders who jointly undertook “virtual
Aug 20, 2015 · Medieval Pilgrimages: It’s All About the Journey. By Danièle Cybulskie. Although religion in the Middle Ages was much more nuanced than modern popular culture might imply, Christianity was a pivotal part of medieval society in Europe, and people’s everyday lives were saturated with it, from the way time was measured to the meals they ate ...
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- The Mayflower Voyage
- The Mayflower Compact
- Settling at Plymouth
- The First Thanksgiving
- Relations with Native Americans
- The Pilgrim Legacy in New England
The group that set out from Plymouth, in southwestern England, in September 1620 included 35 members of a radical Puritan faction known as the English Separatist Church. In 1607, after illegally breaking from the Church of England, the Separatists settled in the Netherlands, first in Amsterdam and later in the town of Leiden, where they remained fo...
Rough seas and storms prevented the Mayflower from reaching their initial destination in Virginia, and after a voyage of 65 days the ship reached the shores of Cape Cod, anchoring on the site of Provincetown Harbor in mid-November. Discord ensued before the would-be colonists even left the ship. The passengers who were not separatists—referred to a...
After sending an exploring party ashore, the Mayflower landed at what they would call Plymouth Harbor, on the western side of Cape Cod Bay, in mid-December. During the next several months, the settlers lived mostly on the Mayflower and ferried back and forth from shore to build their new storage and living quarters. The settlement’s first fort and ...
The native inhabitants of the region around Plymouth Colony were the various tribes of the Wampanoag people, who had lived there for some 10,000 years before the Europeans arrived. Soon after the Pilgrims built their settlement, they came into contact with Tisquantum, or Squanto, an English-speaking Native American. Squanto was a member of the Pawt...
After attempts to increase his own power by turning the Pilgrims against Massasoit, Squanto died in 1622, while serving as Bradford’s guide on an expedition around Cape Cod. Other tribes, such as the Massachusetts and Narragansetts, were not so well disposed towards European settlers, and Massasoit’s alliance with the Pilgrims disrupted relations a...
Repressive policies toward religious nonconformists in England under King James I and his successor, Charles I, had driven many men and women to follow the Pilgrims’ path to the New World. Three more ships traveled to Plymouth after the Mayflower, including the Fortune (1621), the Anne and the Little James (both 1623). In 1630, a group of some 1,00...
This essay concentrates on the impact of pilgrimage on art and architecture in Western Europe from late antiquity through the fifteenth century. The earliest Christian pilgrims wished to see the places where Jesus and the apostles had lived on earth.
Nov 23, 2020 · By the 11th century the Saint’s dominated the face for Christian pilgrimage, allowing European cities to greatly increase their importance in the Christian world. The importance of Rome in particular can not be understated, being the location of the tombs of many early Christian Martyrs that had already been made prominent by Constantine.
Jan 13, 2021 · Of Plymouth Plantation (also known as History of the Plymouth Plantation and William Bradford 's Journal, written 1630-1651 CE) is the first-hand account of William Bradford (l. 1590-1657 CE), second governor of the Plymouth Colony (1620-1691 CE) relating the events leading to his congregation of religious separatists (later known as pilgrims ...
Nov 26, 2020 · The story of the pilgrims of Plymouth Colony is well known regarding the basic facts: they sailed on the Mayflower, arrived off the coast of Massachusetts on 11 November 1620, came ashore at Plymouth Rock, half of them died the first winter, and the survivors established the first successful colony in New England.
