Christian pilgrimage
Sacred travel destination
Christian pilgrimage is travel to a sacred site for spiritual purposes—devotion, penance, healing, or fulfillment of a vow.
Major destinations include Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela.
Medieval pilgrims walked months to reach shrines; modern ones may fly.
The journey itself carries meaning: The pilgrimage changed her faith more than the destination did.
- CanterburyHistoric English ecclesiastical seat
- JerusalemTriply sacred ancient capital
- BethlehemNativity's traditional setting
- prayerAddress to deity
- NazarethGalilean city of faith
shrine · penance · cross · sacred journey · Camino de Santiago · scallop shell · walking staff · Stations of the Cross · indulgence · penitent · pilgrim · Fatima · ex-voto · palm branch · fasting · Mount Sinai · monasticism · Eucharist
Christian pilgrimagevacation
Leisure time away
business travel · sightseeing · holiday · leisure travel · package holiday
Christian pilgrimageapostasy
Renunciation of former beliefs
spiritual exile · deconversion · excommunication · sacrilege