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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.
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.
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.
A Pilgrim scavenger hunt on Cape Cod: Find these cool historic spots. Myth: The Pilgrims intended to settle in Patuxet/Plymouth or, alternately, the Pilgrims meant to settle in Virginia but they ...
The pilgrims were then invited to visit the grave inside the church and see the other relics on display there. [notes 3] The ceremony was concluded by bell ringing and pilgrims blowing their pilgrim horns. [12] Pilgrim badges of Saint Servatius. Throughout the Middle Ages tens of thousands visited Maastricht during the septennial pilgrimage.
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Tudor English pilgrim badge with "M" for Mary. For centuries, England has been known as 'Our Lady's Dowry'. Anglo-Saxon England sheltered many shrines to the Virgin Mary: shrines were dedicated to her at Glastonbury in 540, Evesham in 702, Tewkesbury in 715, Canterbury in 866, Willesden in 939, Abingdon before 955, Ely in 1020, Coventry in 1043, York in 1050, and Walsingham in 1061.