Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Pilgrim badge; Pin trading; Pin-back button; Prize of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine; S. Stinking badges; Media in category "Badges" The following 11 files are in this ...
A Richard Caister pilgrim badge. Richard Caister (mid-1300s – 4 April 1420) was an English priest and poet in the late 14th and early 15th centuries, and was the confessor to the English mystic Margery Kempe. After his death in 1420 his burial place in Norwich became a pilgrimage site.
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.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department badge. A badge is a device or accessory, often containing the insignia of an organization, which is presented or displayed to indicate some feat of service, a special accomplishment, a symbol of authority granted by taking an oath (e.g., police and fire), a sign of legitimate employment or student status, or as a simple means of ...
The Shroud pilgrim’s badge found in Paris in the mid-19th century, today preserved in the Cluny Museum Paris. The area from the priests’ head and above, also the SVAIRE label are an artist’s reconstruction. In 1353, just three years before his death, Geoffroi de Charny had founded a collegiate church at his tiny fief of Lirey near Troyes.
The Dunstable Swan Jewel, a livery badge from about 1400 AD, perhaps of Henry V as Prince of Wales. British Museum. Livery badges were especially common in England from the mid-fourteenth century until about the end of the fifteenth century, a period of intense factional conflict which saw the deposition of Richard II and the Wars of the Roses.
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 ...