Knowing like a pilgrim

Figures & data

Figure 1. Small bundle containing matter from the Cedron Valley, where pilgrims used to visit Christ’s footprints etched in stone. According to the lettering on the reverse side of the parchment, the relic was brought back to Arth (Switzerland) by the pilgrim Peter Villinger in 1568, which implies that it survived shipwreck and three years of Ottoman captivity. Arth, Pfarrkirche St. Georg und Zeno, relic chest. Image courtesy of Walter Eigel.

Figure 2. Seal of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, sixteenth century. Jerusalem, Convento di San Salvatore, Archivio Storico, Arm.D, C1, A0, borsa. Image: © Terra Sancta Museum.

Figure 3. Thurneysser acquiring mummy parts in Egypt, with the pilgrimage destinations Sinai, Jerusalem, and Mecca in the background. Sketch by Christoph Murer. Basel, Kunstmuseum, Kupferstichkabinett, Inv. 2007.22.

Figure 4. View of Görlitz with Emmerich’s Holy Sepulchre (letter O) and Jacob Böhme’s burial site (letter ß). Etching by “J. Smit.” De vita et scriptis Jacobi Böhmii oder ausführlich erläuterter historischer Bericht von dem Leben und Schriften des teutschen Wunder-Mannes und hocherleuchteten Theosophi Jacob Böhmens. S.l.: s.n., 1730, added to page 62.

Figure 5. A page from Sebastian Werro’s notebook, with a chart comparing various measurements from Jerusalem and Fribourg’s Way of the Cross. Fribourg (Switzerland), Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire, MS L 181, 108 ^v.