Virtual Refectory: Pilgrimage: A History.

Open a book and you’re a pilgrim at the gates of a new city -- Hebrew proverb

Hello my lovely, Ecclesiasticals! I hope you’re all doing well (well, as well as can be thanks to this dreadful UK weather). Once again—apologies for being so terrible at posting, but my excuse is almost over as the manuscript for my next book is due for submission in just over a week, so I’ll finally be a bit freer to conjure up entertaining anecdotes for you all.

And that being said, I started to ask myself whether I’d actually gone into detail on the history behind many of the subjects I post—and my answer was, likely, no! I’m here to remedy that today. Let’s start with pilgrimage and unpack it in a little more detail: what is it, how did it come to be, and how has it changed over time?