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pilgrimage

Pilgrimage is a journey made to a sacred place of one's religion. In the Muslim faith, the pilgrimage to Mecca is known as the Hajj.

pilgrimage

If you pilgrimage, you are on a journey to a sacred place.

pilgrimage

a journey to a sacred place

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Simple sentences

Tom made a pilgrimage.
The St. James's Way is a pilgrimage route to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, where allegedly the remains of the apostle St. James are buried.

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Our Father, we thank thee for leading us to this land of promise, for guiding our footsteps safely through the dangers of our pilgrimage.
This little pilgrimage will do us good.
Descend and make a pilgrimage with me among these mortals.
The enemy tries to prevent us from our pilgrimage to the holy hill of Tabor, but in vain.
I will also make a pilgrimage to the Virgin of Cobre.
She set out on a pilgrimage to Amtak. She disappeared with her party.
It's possible, sir, that he's gone away on a pilgrimage or-- To a meeting of stranglers?
From the Appian Way she'll make a pilgrimage here.
We are from Thessaly. bound for Alpheios on a pilgrimage.
We came as pilgrims. So continue your pilgrimage.
Blind men's pilgrimage.
I would go on a pilgrimage to St. James of Campostela and even a greater distance, if I believed it could help me.
Try Pilgrimage Hill at the south end of town.
Exception is the last Sunday in July when it becomes a place of pilgrimage for all Irish believers.
My mother made a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Miracles to get it for me.
I know you're tired, gentlemen, but I brought you here for a reason. - This little pilgrimage will do us good. - The Chronicle's a good newspaper.
As with the Muslims and their pilgrimage to Mecca it is the highest aim in life and the of foremost luck for Lamaists to experience the beginning of the new year at the sanctuary of Lhasa.
Well, are you ready to start on your pilgrimage?
They'll make a pilgrimage to see it.
It's a pilgrimage.
A kind of pilgrimage.
From the Appian Way she'll make a pilgrimage here. What can she do, the Quo Vadis?
No! We came as pilgrims. So continue your pilgrimage.
Cargo: 800 Muslims on a holy pilgrimage to Mecca.
Let the pilgrimage begin.
I must hasten back to my village and bring the news of our pilgrimage.
I know you're tired, gentlemen, but I brought you here for a reason. - This little pilgrimage will do us good.
Must've taken a great deal to make this pilgrimage up to the mysterious tower room.
We need more rehearsing on our pilgrimage dances.
I want this to be the best dancing they've had at any rebel ball since the Natchez pilgrimage began!
If it weren't for the pilgrimage money, we wouldn't even get our taxes paid.
I don't care how you keep house the rest of the year, Renie, but pilgrimage Week is my responsibility!
A Iot of important people will be visiting us during pilgrimage Week.
Every year, come pilgrimage Week.
May I present Great Grandmother Cratcher, just come from Virginny to take the pilgrimage.
I thought that was quite a successful opening for pilgrimage Week, Mrs. Brent.
Come the end of pilgrimage Week, I'm moving to New orleans.
The pilgrimage could do with a little publicity.
A kind of pilgrimage. - Jules!
When the New Year comes, I'll be 70.. I must make my pilgrimage to Narayama.

News and current affairs

Pope John Paul II began his pilgrimage in Gdansk, birthplace of Solidarity, with a remembrance mass for St. Adalbert, who introduced Poland to Catholicism some thousand years ago.
In fact, well before Halstead's contemptuous pilgrimage, Western ethologists began adopting Eastern concepts and approaches--although without being aware of their sources.
More people are not supporting Koizumi's annual pilgrimage to Yasukuni, with seven former prime ministers jointly demanding that he refrain from the visits.
If Nakasone, who now urges Koizumi to stop the Yasukuni pilgrimage, were to respond to Aso, he might simply extend the analogy: it is not in Japan's national interest to continue to inhale Koizumi's second-hand smoke.
In practice, however, it is only in recent times that making a pilgrimage to Mecca has come to play such an important role in Islam.
For the most part, the pilgrimage's religious nature has muted criticism of the way it was handled.
As soon as the Saudi royal family seized the city, the new rulers destroyed the Shia and Sufi shrines that might have undermined their sought-after monopoly over the ritual aspects of the pilgrimage.
Even more important, moving beyond the modern hajj to a more plural pattern of pilgrimage could help stem the Wahhabi takeover of the faith.
In Saudi Arabia, the racism against black Muslims is so acute that one wonders if it is worth it for them to perform the pilgrimage to Mecca, one of the five pillars of the Muslim faith.
LONDON - In his quest to stabilize his country, Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, dressed in white robes, arrived last week in Mecca on what can only be called a diplomatic pilgrimage.
Indeed, communism's breakdown began ten years earlier in Poland, during Pope John Paul II's first pilgrimage to his homeland, a visit that shook communist rule to its foundation.
Fourteen of his 19 cabinet members are reported to belong to a group promoting pilgrimage tours to the site.

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