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
People go on pilgrimages to go to a new place where they can freely practice their desired religion without and consequences.
People still go on pilgrimages, such as Hindus and the Muslims.
the main reason they went on pilgrimages is to build their relationship with god
There is no pilgrimage in modern Judaism.
Catholics are not required to go on pilgrimages to any of the various holy sites throughout the world. Some Catholics never go, others may go on pilgrimages quite frequently.
To honor the site of Becket's death.
a mass movement of people who go on a journey somewhere and tell people stories
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!
The life of the people on the pilgrimages can be defined as religious. People went on the pilgrimages in order to pray.
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.
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.
To spread the christian religion and also to make money.