Rome is the location for the head of the Catholic Church, the Pope, currently Pope Benedict XVI. People come to see Rome and for Catholics visiting the various churches around the city is important. Most pilgrims will go to the Vatican and try to attend a Papal mass. Rome is full of history, and pilgrims will try to see many of the things that relate to Christian history.
People who go on pilgrimageto Rome mostly visit the Vatican City where the Pope lives. The most popular place of pilgrimage for Catholics to go is the The Great Synagogue of Rome. There is also a Sistine Chapel that is very popular. I LIED READ A BOOK!!
Pilgrims try to attend a mass in Saint Peter's Basilica, perhaps attend a papal audince, visit the various museums of the Vatican, admire all the precious works of art found there, including the Sistine Chapel.
Rome is where the Vatican is. It is very important to the Catholics. Also the tomb of Peter and Paul is there making it also important to other non-Catholic Christians.
No. A pilgrimage is for anyone. Pilgrims go to special places. Some places are associated with sick people, like Lourdes, but some pilgrimages can be to special places that don't have a particular association with the sick, like Rome or Bethlehem. Even for places like Lourdes, most of the people who go on pilgrimages there are not seriously ill.
People still go on pilgrimages, such as Hindus and the Muslims.
There is no pilgrimage in modern Judaism.
People go on pilgrimages to places likeLourdes where a vast number of miracles have taken place to people who maybe could not walk or could not talk and some of them were healed. Also people go to places like Rome to see the pope in the Vatican city and to pray in St. Peter's Basilica with or without the pope. Some people think that "WHERE" do people go on pilgrimages is the same as "WHY" do they but i don't think so and this is why i have put this up here to give people idea's who have the same perspective
a mass movement of people who go on a journey somewhere and tell people stories
The life of the people on the pilgrimages can be defined as religious. People went on the pilgrimages in order to pray.
people go on pilgrims so that their sins would be forgiven. if you want to read a poem about pilgrims then I suggest The Canterbury Tales!
No, some people still go on personal pilgrimages. There are some churches who go to places as a group because it represents the major holy place for their religion. Muslims go to Mecca as a pilgrimage.
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Rome, Fatima, and Lourdes
almost 1000 people go to rome
People traveled in groups when on pilgrimages for companionship and protection.