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pilgrimage

[pil-gruh-mij] / ˈpɪl grə mɪdʒ /


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In 1987 I set out one morning from Duke University on my 160-mile pilgrimage to the Bakkers’ “Christian Disneyland” in Fort Mill, S.C.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The Rev. Canon Jaime Edwards-Acton of St. Stephen’s Hollywood, said the pilgrimage was to bring awareness to the people who have died at Adelanto and other facilities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

A. Hazelwood McMurry from Sacramento, Calif., described it as “akin to the retail version of a pilgrimage to the Vatican,” but with fresh sushi instead of sacramental wafers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The shell was also a widely recognized symbol associated with pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

The city spotlights Quichua parades and rituals, like the pilgrimage to the Peguche waterfall, promoting them as tourist attractions.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

Its presence suggests that Lady 56 may have completed one of medieval Europe's most famous pilgrimages, traveling thousands of kilometers across the continent to the western edge of Christian Europe before eventually returning home.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

Our Year of the Pilgrimage, we agreed, wasn’t just for epic treks but also because, in retirement, our trips increasingly felt like pilgrimages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Fans trade tips in online communities and treat new locations as pilgrimages.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

They’re the golden child of the produce aisle, the ingredient that inspires pilgrimages to farmers markets and endless declarations that this is the year we’ll finally grow our own.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

Farmers and maids, cooks and handymen, carpenters and all the children in town, made regular pilgrimages to the Store.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

A Chicago native, I have admittedly fond memories of post-Little League hot dogs and Italian beef sandwiches, and have pilgrimaged to Buena Park to sample the SoCal outpost.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024

In avant-garde New York, one of the most pilgrimaged sites has been the “Dream House,” a sensory environment that since 1993 has occupied the third story of a walk-up on Church Street in Lower Manhattan.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

He became their fighter and savior, and these mega-fans pilgrimaged to his concert-like rallies.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2021

They hiked the Alps, drew color sketches, pilgrimaged to classical Greek and Roman sites, and toured buildings by Antoni Gaudi in Spain, including the Basílica de la Sagrada Família.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2017

He used to say he pilgrimaged not towards Calvary, but towards Bethlehem.

From A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham

I returned from vacation just in time to join the pilgrimaging hordes carting cumbersome picnic baskets and enough wine for a few dozen Sicilian weddings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025

Also new is the addition of several specific barbecue trails, from urban adventuring to rural pilgrimaging.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2016

Since the days of the palmers, pilgrimaging to Jerusalem has become less and less devout, until now many people visit the Holy City with no higher motive than curiosity.

From Time Magazine Archive

If I were a stout workman, they would have robbed me of the fruit of three years’ toil by making me go pilgrimaging.

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster

They laugh at the Britishers journeying thousands of miles to see this place, just as the English smile at the Americans pilgrimaging to Stratford-on-Avon.

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Harry Furniss


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