pilgrimages in English

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a pilgrim's journey.
The Hajj is a real pilgrimage - a journey, with rites and rituals to be done along the way.
synonyms:religious journeyreligious expeditionhajjcrusademission
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1. The Koran recommends fasting as a penance before pilgrimages.

2. Many music-lovers make pilgrimages to Mozart's natal place.

3. Tourism and pilgrimages are an important factor in the daily life in the Vatican.

4. Thomas' patronage stems from the many churches he built during his pilgrimages.

5. Knowledge of architectural features of style was dispersed partly by the monastic orders and partly by the great pilgrimages.

6. Many Waldenses confessed to Catholic priests, attended Mass, used holy water, and even went on pilgrimages.

7. The feast at El Rocío is organized around the pilgrimages of 124 hermandades, or Brotherhoods

8. Each of our Animas offerings — intensives, quests, yearlong immersions, wilderness pilgrimages, and trainings — is entwined with each of the others

9. Al-Maqrizi added to the rumor by claiming Muhammad's tomb was going to be relocated to Crusader territory so Muslims would make pilgrimages there.

10. 23 A whole range of intercessory objects was also outlawed, as were prayers to the saints, pilgrimages,(www.Sentencedict.com) and requiem masses.

11. Over 100,000 young people from around the world make pilgrimages to Taizé each year for prayer, Bible study, sharing, and communal work.

12. 21 Knowledge of architectural features of style was dispersed partly by the monastic orders and partly by the great pilgrimages.

13. The locations and paths for this heritage site were based on their historical and modern importance in religious pilgrimages.

14. On the three regalim, it was customary for the Israelites to make pilgrimages to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices in the Temple.

15. I knew that many people were reviving the practice of pilgrimages by traveling to power places and ancient temples in many countries.

16. Pilgrimages to Rome can involve visits to a large number of sites, both within the Vatican City and in Italian territory.

17. This made him extremely unpopular with his fellow townsmen because the pilgrimages to the Kaaba were the chief source of such prosperity as Mecca enjoyed.

18. These plates as well as the Astrolabe’s compact size would have been useful on pilgrimages to two of Islam’s holiest cities, Medina and Jerusalem.

19. Today hundreds of childless Bhutanese couples make pilgrimages to the "fertility temple, " Chimi Lhakhang, where a Buddhist monk blesses them with a wooden phallus.

20. The Hajj, the fifth pillar of Islam and one of the largest religious pilgrimages in the world, is currently taking place in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

21. He dealt here with problems concerning ecclesiastical jurisdiction, penance, indulgences, crusades and pilgrimages, vows, excommunication, the general church council, marriage and divorce, and unity with the Greek Orthodox Church.

22. But they highlight the Hajj in Saudi Arabia — one of the world's largest annual pilgrimages — as an example of where the introduction of traffic and safety rules has successfully prevented stampedes.

23. ‘But nevertheless, we note that the new Cultus was threatening to eliminate the profitable pilgrimages to the pagan shrine.’ ‘Perhaps there is also a reference here to the ‘heave-offering’ of the ancient sacrificial Cultus.’

24. Together with the Swiss Anglican chaplaincies, who were celebrating the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Anglican Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe, we invited all interested people to journey together on a number of pilgrimages.

25. "Draw Their Veils over Their Bosoms" Before the Islamic era, many upper-class women greeted men on the street, RELIGION entertained their husbands' friends at PHILOSOPHY home, went on pilgrimages to Mecca, and even accompanied their husbands to battle.

26. 1. Pilgrimages to places outside India, including the administration of the Haj Committee Act, 1959 (51 of 1959) and the rules made there under and the Indian Pilgrim Ship Rules, 1933, and Pilgrim parties from India to Shrines in Pakistan and vice versa. 2.

27. Then longe folk to go on pilgrimages, And palmers for to seeke strange strands To ferne hallows Couth in sundry lands. THE IDLER MAGAZINE, VOLUME III, MARCH 1893 VARIOUS For in the flower of his youth, In sondry wise as he well Couth, Of ditties and of …

28. (b) As per directions of the Hon’ble Supreme Court, an affidavit was filed in the Supreme Court on April 12, 2012 wherein it was stated that the number of pilgrimages to a Haj applicant through the Haj Committee of India (HCOI) be restricted to "once in a life time” as against the existing "once in five years” .

29. To sechen that ilke holie stude þare seint Iemes bones", while early references to pilgrimages as (predominantly secular) journeys come not long after, in Chaucer's Usk's Test, from 1385, "As they me Betiden whan I pilgrymaged out of my kyth in wynter." Most of us are a bit of both, sometimes different bits on the same day.

30. But the party system and the FA’s internal balance of power do not favor any turn abrupt toward radical left or populism. Indeed, because populist tactics are likely to prove self-defeating in the presidential campaign, Mujica started supporting Vázquez’s administration’s record and made Astori his candidate to be Vice President, entitled to take the lead on economic policy and participate in the executive. To stress their social democratic credentials both candidates, Mujica and Astori, have gone on pilgrimages to the United States, Brazil, and Chile.