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a tourist who walks until it hurts and calls the blisters holy.
means A person who travels a long distance to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion.
from From Latin 'peregrinus,' meaning a foreigner or one from abroad — built from 'per' (through) and 'ager' (field, land), so literally someone wandering through the countryside, beyond their own borders. It traveled into Old French as 'pelegrin' before settling into English, the 'r' and 'l' swapping places along the way. The same root gave us 'peregrine,' the falcon named for its far-roaming flights.
- medieval gps
- Scallop shells marked the route to Santiago de Compostela
- hat flex
- Returning pilgrims wore palm fronds, hence the word palmer
- long haul
- The Camino de Santiago runs roughly 500 miles on foot
- not buckles
- Mayflower Pilgrims never wore those iconic shoe buckles
- holy crowds
- Hajj draws over two million pilgrims to Mecca yearly
mayflower passengers 1620 — 102 english separatists who sailed to plymouth colony and founded one of america's first permanent settlements
canterbury tales pilgrims — chaucer's 29 fictional pilgrims traveling to the shrine of thomas becket in canterbury, england, 1387
santiago de compostela route — the way of st. james attracts over 200,000 real pilgrims annually to northwest spain from across europe