1277 examples of pilgrimages in sentences

Not until his decease are his relics available, or pilgrimages to his shrine feasible.

Under this safeguard the pilgrimages to Jerusalem continued to increase, until in 1064 the Holy Sepulchre was visited by seven thousand pilgrims, led by an archbishop and three bishops.

Mahomet, in the first year of the publication of the Koran, directed his followers, when at prayer, to turn their faces toward it, and pilgrimages have constantly been made to the holy spot by devout Moslems.

And so in imagination our fair friend sketched out fanciful pilgrimages for us.

Plato, in Egypt and in Eastern pilgrimages, imbibed the idea of one Deity, in which all things are absorbed.

However, the cook had not ceased his pilgrimages.

Pilgrimages were made across mountains and rivers of great magnitude, and when an Indian chief showed signs of failing health, and was not benefited by the machinations of medicine men, he was generally carried to Manitou, no matter how far the journey might be, or how great were the obstacles to be overcome.

Thither both the high and the lowly shall make pilgrimages, and all shall sing the praises of the province because it has such a holy place within its confines.'

So long as I live myself that hill will be the shrine to which my many pilgrimages will be directed.

I think you used to make pilgrimages to her tomb.

"I'd like to have made pilgrimages somewhere.

Few other notable houses in America, still used as homes, are the objects of so many pilgrimages as the historic places on the James.

p. 359), gives the following view of these misconceived glories of history:"The crusades may be considered as martial pilgrimages on an enormous scale; and their influence upon general morality seems to have been altogether pernicious.

To this is added a kind of worship, consisting of offerings of flowers and incense to Jina, of adoration by songs of praise in celebration of their entrance into Nirvâ[n.]a, of which the Jaina makes a great festival by solemn processions and pilgrimages to the places where it has been attained.

For this one thing I hold as certain, and I dare not doubt itthat there is a Truth behind all confusions and errors; a goal beyond all pilgrimages.

Great was the joy in Christendom; and the pilgrimages to Jerusalem resumed their course.

However, it is certain that, during this epoch, pilgrimages multiplied, and were often accomplished without obstacle.

Such being the condition of facts and minds, pilgrimages to Jerusalem became, from the ninth to the eleventh century, more and more numerous and considerable.

In 1869 I gave my name, for the first time, to the New York Bureau, and on November 14 began the long, weary pilgrimages, from Maine to Texas, that lasted twelve years; speaking steadily for eight monthsfrom October to Juneevery season.

I did not wish for vivid historical realisation: relics I could never have valued: pilgrimages to Jerusalem had always excited in me more of scorn than of sympathy;and

Soon she is helping to polish the brass cooking pots and to follow her mother and older sisters, earthen waterpot on hip, on their morning and evening pilgrimages to the river.

Every zone of the earth's surface has its own animals, suited to the conditions under which they are meant to live; and with the exception of those that accompany man in all his pilgrimages, and are subject to the same modifying influences by which he adapts his home and himself to all climates, animals are absolutely bound by the laws of their nature within the range assigned to them.

"Than longen folk to gon on pilgrimages, And palmeres for to seken strange strondes.

Strangely enough, however, the Romans themselves, for the most part, feel less concern in these new revelations of their underground city than the strangers who come from year to year to make their pilgrimages to Rome.

As early as 1070 and 1080 we hear of pilgrimages to Nuremberg in honor of her patron saint.

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