pilgrimage churches, Romanesque style churches built along pilgrimage routes.
'Pilgrim(s)' are a person or a group of people who are making a journey somewhere for religious purposes. The 'pilgrimage' refers to the journey they make. For Muslims the 'pilgrimage' would be the Hajj and the 'pilgrims' would be those Muslims making the Hajj that year. For Christians the 'pilgrimage' may be a trip to the Holy Land (Jerusalem) and the 'pilgrims' are the people making the visit.
A pilgrimage is a journey undertaken for religious reasons. The medieval pilgrimages were very much the same sort of thing as those of ancient or modern times, in that regard. What made them special was that they gave people reasons to travel great distances at a time when relatively few people did travel. This connected people from different parts of the world and expanded knowledge.
Medieval pilgrims were people who went on journeys or trips to distant places of religious importance. Such trips were called pilgrimages and people who go on a pilgrimage are called pilgrims.
Peasants joined the crusades for many reasons, some because they wanted to go to the holy land for pilgrimage others because they wanted to participate in the sacrament of reconciliation and were unable to give gifts of money to the church. To get out of debt.
An expeditionA pilgrimage
Try: Hundreds of years ago, my ancestors made a pilgrimage to Rome. Or: The fanatics made an annual pilgrimage to their holy shrine.
Simba
made a pilgrimage to mecca
the Haj
Mansa Musa in 1324.. his name in English means king Moses
they made themselves pure
An alhaji is a man who has made a religious pilgrimage to Mecca.
An alhajia is a woman who has made a religious pilgrimage to Mecca.
It is an expedition or pilgrimage.
Mansa Musa, king of Mali, made the pilgrimage to Arabia with 12000 servants each carrying a bar of gold.
haj is a pilgrimage made to Saudi Rabi