Pilgrims Collection (page 7)

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

Invalid Pilgrims
Sick or disabled pilgrims are wheeled to the Grotto in invalid chairs - hopefully they won t need them on the way back !

Clerics at Station
Clerical pilgrims arrive at the railway station - note the facial expressions!

Womens Orders
Pilgrims from womens nursing orders

Pilgrims at Station
Pilgrims arriving at the railway station

The Grotto in 1875
Pilgrims at the grotto - the Spanish caption refers to the Lourdes devotion as a popular superstition

Pilgrims at the Grotto
Pilgrims at the grotto - priests, peasants and fashionably dressed folk

Lourdes Pilgrims 1905
Pilgrims help themselves to water from the fontaine miraculeuse supposedly revealed to Bernadette by Mary. (note the boys dressed in their best clothes !)

Bernadettes Home
The family home of Bernadette Soubirous, at Lourdes, now in 1900 offering lodgings to pilgrims who could enjoy the privilege of spending the night in the saints home !

Coronation Ring
THE CORONATION RING used to help crown English sovereigns was given to pilgrims in the Holy Land by Saint John the Evangelist who owed Edward the Confessor a favour

PILGRIMs PROGRESS / 1678
The pilgrims

Bunyan / Delectable Mountn
The Pilgrims on the delectable mountains

Pilgrims on the Road
The Pilgrims on the road, the Miller prominent in the foreground

Pilgrims Set Out
The Pilgrims set out

Buddha Reborn
A 4-year old Indian peasant boy, perceived to be the reincarnation of Buddha, is adored by pilgrims who come to hear him preach and interpret Buddhas teachings

Pilgrims to Holy Land
Christians travelling to the Holy Land

Pilgrims
Worshipping in St Patricks cave, St Patricks Purgatory, Lough Derg, Ireland

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