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ABSTRACT
This paper outlines the History of Christian Pilgrimage from Old Testament to modern times. It argues that the idea of pilgrimage is rooted in ancient Jewish festivals, and is to be found in the New Testament also. It argues that in sub-Apostolic times the graves of Christian martyrs were venerated and this continued and grew through the Middle Ages up until the Reformation. Shrines, and therefore pilgrimages to them, were largely suppressed at the Reformation but were revived in the nineteenth century. This revival is explored and the place of pilgrimage as a contemporary Christian practice is examined.
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Notes
1 Ex 12:1–8.
2 Deut 16:5–6.
3 Deut 16:6.
4 E.g. See Davis, 2 Kings, 316.
5 Cf. 2 Kings 23:3.
6 NJBC 1266.
7 Mal 2:7.
8 Lk 2:41.
9 Lk 1:39–40.
10 Cf. Jn 4:34.
11 Gal 1:17.
12 Gal 1:19.
13 Cf. Acts 9:26.
14 Acts 21:26.
15 Tanner, New Short History of the Catholic Church, 37.
16 Farmer, Butler’s Lives of the Saints, January 22, 0144.
17 Eusebius EH 6.11.12, PG 20.541.
18 Wilkinson, Egeria’s Travels, 20.
19 Colgrave, The life of Bishop Wilfrid, 9.
20 Buckley, The Rough Guide to Venice, 302.
21 Indulgences remain a part of Catholic teaching. See the Catechism of the Catholic Church, §§1471–1479, 1498.
22 Cf. Tanner, New Short History of the Catholic Church, 100.
23 See De Omni Sanguine Christi Glorificato (1405).
24 Imitation of Christ, Book 4, chapter 1.
25 Ibid. Book 1 chapter 23.
26 Lahey, ‘Wyclif and Lollardy’, 334–54, 351.
27 25th session, 1563.
28 Champ, The English Pilgrimage to Rome, 150.
29 Ibid., 197.
30 Cf. Ibid., 200.
31 McManners (ed.), The Oxford History of Christianity, 365.
32 Champ, 2.
33 Phil 3:20.
34 CCC 1674.
35 Ibid., 1676.
36 Tanner, New Short History of the Catholic Church, 46.
37 Cullen, Bonaventure, 88.
38 Weigel, Witness to Hope, 301.
39 Cf. Ibid., 297.
40 Ibid., 302.
41 Garton Ash. The Polish Revolution; Solidarity, 28, quoted in Weigel, 305.
42 Weigel 317.
43 Ibid., 323.
44 Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, 117.
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Paul Severn
Paul Severn read mathematics and philosophy at the University of Durham, UK, and was for many years a secondary school mathematics teacher. He holds a doctoral degree in the Philosophy of Education, awarded by the Institute of Education, London. He became interested in St Anthony of Padua and self-published his book: S. Anthony of Padua: In Search of the Evangelical Doctor, (Fastprint Publishing) in 2011. He went on to write a thesis on St. Anthony which was awarded a Lambeth doctoral degree (by the Archbishop of Canterbury) in 2016. See article on the Christology of St. Anthony of Padua, IJSCC vol. 19, no. 1, 3–16). Currently he is an independent researcher.