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The Pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer are the main characters in the framing narrative of the book. In addition, they can be considered as characters of the framing narrative the Host, who travels with the pilgrims, the Canon, and the fictive Geoffrey Chaucer, the teller of the tale of Sir Thopas (who might be considered distinct from the Chaucerian narrator, who is in turn ...
Pilgrim by Gheorghe Tattarescu. A pilgrimage is a journey to a holy place, which can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life. [1] [2] [3] A pilgrim (from the Latin peregrinus) is a traveler (literally one who has come from afar) who is on a journey to a holy place. Typically, this is a physical ...
A pilgrimage church (German: Wallfahrtskirche) is a church to which pilgrimages are regularly made, or a church along a pilgrimage route, like the Way of St. James, that is visited by pilgrims. The Calvary Church in Bonn with its holy stairway
The Pilgrim" is an epithet associated with pilgrimage to the Holy Land: Bernard the Pilgrim (fl. 854), Frankish monk who wrote a travelogue; Daniel the Traveller (fl. 12th century?), also known as Daniel the Pilgrim, first travel writer from the Kievan Rus; Maenghal the Pilgrim (fl. 844), Irish poet
Mid-17th century map showing the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome. As the home of the Pope and the Catholic curia, as well as the locus of many sites and relics of veneration related to apostles, saints and Christian martyrs, Rome had long been a destination for pilgrims. The Via Francigena was an ancient pilgrim route from England to Rome. It ...
Pilgrims, missionaries, and other travelers to the Holy Land have documented their experiences through accounts of travel and even guides of sites to visit. Many of these have been recognized by historians, for example, the travels of ibn Jubayr and Marco Polo. Some of the more important travel accounts are listed here.
The poem is a narrative made up of four six-line stanzas, known as sestets.Poe uses the term shadow in the middle of each stanza. The meaning of the word, however, changes with each use.
The Slough of Despond, illustrated by Rachael Robinson Elmer, 1913. The Slough of Despond (/ ˈ s l aʊ ... d ɪ ˈ s p ɒ n d / or / ˈ s l uː /; [1] "swamp of despair") is a fictional bog in John Bunyan's allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, into which the protagonist Christian sinks under the weight of his sins and his sense of guilt for them.