Pilgramage In Mediveal Times

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Medieval Pilgrimages as Journeys In the Middle Ages, people in Europe rarely migrated, and for most people the world consisted only of the town they lived in and maybe the next closest town. However, in the 12th and 13th century, for a variety of reasons, people began to move about and visit other places in Europe. The name of one of these vacations became “pilgrimage” which means a journey to a holy place or shrine undertaken as a spiritual quest to obtain supernatural help or as a form of penance for sins. In these times, church encouraged people to make pilgrimages to special holy places called shrines, because it was believed that if you prayed in these shrines your sins would be forgiven and you would have more chance to go to heaven. Some people made pilgrimages with the belief that by just visiting a relic, shrine, or famous battleground, some of the holiness or cleansing would be removed by rubbing. Some other believed that they would find cure from their illnesses, or personal peace and comfort. Some went to a shrine for thanksgiving or to make amends. And also some others had to make pilgrimage as it is imposed by a member of the clergy, in order to be punished for a penitent. As it is clearly understood, a pilgrimage is not always a religious voyage only to be forgiven, or to worship God as it is sometimes not actually a religious journey, but a spiritual, an abstract journey of mind, and sometimes an exile. The first and most well-known journey or pilgrimage as most of the people accepted is the one with religious aim what is predominantly accepted as the actual pilgrimage. In medieval times, people would believe some particular places to have spiritual importance. However due to the fact that long journeys were really dangerous because of the roads not kept up, or they were very deterrent because pilgrims were abused with the taxes along the routes as
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