"pilgrimage" is when people go to a geographical place , that is deemed holy . "Christianity" is a religious ideology , like "Communisim" is a political ideology.......rephrase your question.
They were called Pilgrims because their trip from England was a religious pilgrimage. They were escaping the restrictions there on how they practiced their form of Protestant Christianity.
No On Christian pilgrimages the pilgrims may have used perfumed incense at holy places along their pilgrimage.
A Christian Pilgrimage to anywhere has for its goal the desire to glorify God , through Christ ! Also in a pilgrimage to Canterbury the pilgrims would remember S.Augustine, who attempted to Bring Christianity to the English [597 AD ] and S.Thomas aBecket, a martyr in the struggle against the civil power!
They are called "Pilgrims".
they made themselves pure
They feel closer to God.
Yes, one of the definitions is "a pilgrim's journey."
Christianity
A pilgrimage means a trip with a purpose, , so it could be said that if a person who wants to return to the place of their birth are going on a pilgrimage.
what do you call a pilgrims journey to a holy place
'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.
The Pilgrims.