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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 gpsScallop shells marked the route to Santiago de Compostela
hat flexReturning pilgrims wore palm fronds, hence the word palmer
long haulThe Camino de Santiago runs roughly 500 miles on foot
not bucklesMayflower Pilgrims never wore those iconic shoe buckles
holy crowdsHajj draws over two million pilgrims to Mecca yearly