Pilgrims Collection (page 6)

Pilgrims Progress 27
Christianas and the pilgrims climb the hill Difficulty

Pilgrim in Sedan Chair
Pilgrims en route to the Baths of Panticosa in Spain; a woman with a fan is carried in a sedan chair, while other men and women ride on donkeys

Chaudfontaine / France
The pretty town of Chaudfontaine, known as the Violet among watering resorts. The scene is spoilt by the railway and the heavy goods train passing through

Knights of Santiago
SANTIAGO DE ESPADA (Saint James of the Sword) Spanish religious/military order, created 1175 to protect Compostella pilgrims from the infidels

Touching Relics
Pilgrims touch the relics of St Philip, hoping for a cure

Pilgrim Setts Forth
A pilgrim, barefoot and carrying his beads, sets forth on his pilgrimage - illustration to Wynkyn de Wordes The Way to the Holy Lande, published in 1500

Pilgrims / Montserrat
The principal cloister of the monastery at Montserrat : ex-votos can be seen to the left, while other pilgrim gifts (including crocodiles !) hang from the ceiling

Pilgrims, Beauraing
Pilgrims at the Grotto du Pensionnat, where the Virgin Mary came down from Heaven to speak with some Belgian children

Mayflower Pilgrims Land
The first load of travellers on board the Mayflower land at what would later be Plymouth, Massachusetts

Pius IX in St Peter s
Pope Pius IX is carried through St Peter s, Rome, while pilgrims kneel in adoration

DIABOLUS seeks to distract the pilgrims from their progress

Saudi Arabia / Mecca 1882
Mecca, Court of the Ka aba: overall view of the Holy Places, with thousands of pilgrims

Russian Pilgrim
A Russian pilgrim : peasants are liable to take off on pilgrimages at any excuse - a celebration, a bereavement, any excuse will do

Shiite Self-Mutilators
MOSLEM PILGRIMS Shi ite fanatics of Iran mutilate themselves in a state of ecstasy during their pilgrimage to Kerbela

Compostella Pilgrims
The pilgrims first sight of Santiago di Compostella, looking westward from the Lugo road

Saint James the Great
SAINT JAMES THE GREAT the patron of pilgrims, supposed to be buried at Compostella, Spain

Bathing in Jordan
Pilgrims bathing in the river Jordan, close to the spot where Jesus was baptised by Saint John the Baptist

Arriving at Lourdes
A trainload of pilgrims arrive at Lourdes after travelling through the night : the sick are carried into the town on stretchers or in wheelchairs

Pilgrims Tour 7 Churches
Pilgrims go in procession to visit the seven churches of Rome (though of course there are many more than seven !)

C14 Religious Costume
Costumes of English religious types - a priest with a tonsure meets two pilgrims

Scala Santa / Rome 1830S
In the small church of San Giovanni, pilgrims climb the Scala Santa (Holy Stair), a staircase which includes 28 steps taken from the palace of Pontius Pilate in Jerusalem

Breton Pilgrimage
Pilgrims make the annual pilgrimage to Sainte-Anne- d Auray, Bretagne, the site of a vision of the Virgin Mary in 1623

English Pilgrim C15
An Englishwoman on a pilgrimage

Sick Pilgrims, Lourdes
Sick pilgrims waiting in the courtyard of the hospital at Lourdes to be taken to the Grotto where, if the Virgin chooses, they will be cured

Notre Dame De Liessee
Pilgrims at the shrine of Notre-Dame de Liesse pray before the miraculous statue of the Virgin; note the man on the left in true pilgrims garb, cockle shells and all

The Grotto at Lourdes
Pilgrims gather at the Grotto where Bernadette Soubirous met the Virgin Mary : probably no other riverside rock has attracted so many visitors !

MEDINA 1719 / 1683
A crowd of camel-borne pilgrims arrive at the gates of Medina, the holy city of Islam where the prophet Mohammad is buried

Pilgrims in Holland
The first shipload of pilgrims under John Robinson and William Brewster get as far as Holland but are forced to stay there until 1620

Bunyan Vanity Fair 3
Vanity Fair, where temptations assail the pilgrims on every side

Bunyan / Pilgrims / Progress
Christian is confronted by a pair of lions

Pilgrims Leave / Chaucer
The pilgrims leave the Tabard Inn Southwark on their pilgrimage to Canterbury

Stoning the Great Devil
Pilgrims Stoning the great Devil

Pilgrims Costume
Male and female pilgrims in the approved costume for making the pilgrimage to Mecca

Leaving for Mecca
Pious moslem pilgrims in the harbour at Algiers make their way to the vessels which will carry them to the holy city of Mecca

Pilgrims at Mecca
The scene in the streets of Mecca as pilgrims arrive from all over to pay their respects at the most sacred shrine of Islam

Cauterets, France
The village of Cauterets in the Pyrenees on the pilgrims way to the Compostelle Spa

Lestelle-Betharram
The church and convent of Lestelle-Betharram & Lestelle Bridge in the Pyrenees. A former place of pilgrimage

St Martins Priory
PRIORY OF SAINT MARTIN of Tours, Dover, Kent in use as a farm during the 18th century. Founded in 1131 under Henry I & dissolved in 1535 under Henry VIII

Jerusalem 1493
The city of Jerusalem as depicted in the 15th century, and as the pilgrims to the Holy Land expected to see it !

Cross of Pic Du Jer
A few stalwart pilgrims have climbed to the summit of the Pic du Jer, where a cross has been erected, overlooking Lourdes

At the Piscines
Pilgrims outside les piscines - the bathing houses where the sick can plunge into the waters of the miraculous healing spring revealed by the Virgin to Bernadette

Place De LA Basilique
Pilgrims make their way across the Place de la Basilique to the Basilica which the Virgin Mary commissioned to be built in her honour

Drinking the Water
Pilgrims drink the water from the miraculous healing spring which the Virgin Mary revealed to Bernadette in 1858

Stations of Cross
Pilgrims follow the Stations of the Cross, up the hill to the Calvary

Arriving by Coach
Pilgrims at the coach station

Arriving by Train
Pilgrims arriving by train - women and clerics

Waiting to Bathe
Pilgrims wait to bathe in the miraculous waters from the spring which the Virgin Mary revealed to Bernadette

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