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Various cultural practices converged to bring about the pilgrim badge. Pilgrims had long sought natural souvenirs from their destination to commemorate their trip and bring home some of the site's sanctity. The earliest and still iconic pilgrim 'badge' was the scallop shell worn by pilgrims to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela.
Provincetown memorial to Pilgrims who died in Cape Cod Harbor. List of Mayflower passengers at the National Monument to the Forefathers. Note: An asterisk on a name indicates those who died in the winter of 1620–21. Allerton, Isaac (possibly Suffolk). [3] Mary (Norris) Allerton*, wife (Newbury, Berkshire) [4] Bartholomew Allerton, 7, son ...
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Fragment of cast-lead pilgrims' badge (showing front and back) depicting the Boxley Abbey rood. The Rood of Grace was a crucifix kept at Boxley Abbey in Kent in southeast England.
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; Nicholas the Pilgrim (1075–1094), Roman Catholic saint; Richard the Pilgrim (died 720), father of three West Saxon ...
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.
Greek and Roman pilgrims to pagan shrines made collections of miniature images of gods and goddesses or their emblems, and Christian pilgrims later did the same. Usually medieval Christian pilgrim badges were metal pin badges - most famously the shell symbol showing the wearer had been to the shrine of St. James at Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
Way of St. James pilgrims with pilgrim's staffs (1568) The coat of Arms of Bever, Switzerland, featuring a pilgrim with a staff. A pilgrim's staff or palmer's staff is a walking stick used by Christian pilgrims during their pilgrimages, like the Way of St. James to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela in Spain or the Via Francigena to Rome.