#Catholic pilgrimages

[vincentblackbearmediallc]

Are you considering a spiritual journey to Medjugorje? Have you heard about the reports of miraculous healing and divine intervention from pilgrims who have made the pilgrimage? If so, this article is for you. Here, we’ll discuss what to expect on a pilgrimage to Medjugorje, as well as tips and advice on how best to prepare for the journey on one of the most popular Catholic pilgrimages in the world.

#Medjugorje #Pilgrimage #great #most popular #Catholic pilgrimages

[cathtraduk]

A painful but righteous penitential walk for young men with a sense of sin.

#penance #short trousers #catholic #pilgrimage

[useless-catalanfacts]

The Tossa Pilgrim has been walking this path every year since the 15th century.

According to the tradition, around the year 1400 the plague was devastating the town of Tossa de Mar (in Comarques Gironines, Catalonia). The inhabitants asked Saint Sebastian for help and promised that, if he saved them, they would walk every year to the nearest chapel dedicated to him.

Soon, the plague ended. Since then, every year on January 20th (Saint Sebastian's Day), the people of Tossa have sent a man in representation of the town to walk the 40 kilometres to the nearest chapel dedicated to Saint Sebastian, which is in the town of Santa Coloma de Farners. This man is called the Father Pilgrim (pare pelegrí in Catalan), and still continues nowadays. He walks there accompanied by everyone who wants to join, arrives in the chapel after the sun has set, and gives away shells (pilgrimage symbol) to the people of Santa Coloma who gather to welcome him. The next day, he walks back. When he reaches Tossa again, inhabitants join him carrying candles, and many religious people follow him barefoot for a personal promise.

Video by fototecapatrimonial on Instagram. Photos from Visit Tossa and Turisme Santa Coloma de Farners.

#tradicions #tossa de mar #santa coloma de farners #catalunya #pare pelegrí #pelegrí de tossa #history #pilgrim #pilgrimage #cultures #religions #culture #travel #europe #ethnography #traditions #folk catholicism #catholic #christian #christianity

[tradicatho]

Young men living hard penitential pilgrimage as a rewarding spiritual experience

#catholic #pilgrimage #bare foot

[catholic-academia-aesthetic]

Procession of Pardon in Brittany Jules Breton,1869 oil on canvas

#dark academia #catholic academia #catholic aesthetic #catholic art #classical art #jules breton #brittany #pardon #pilgrimage #penitence #folk piety

[eopederson]

Basilique Notre-Dame, Montréal, 2023.

A pilgrimage destination and a landmark of gothic revival architecture.

#churches #gothic revival #roman catholic #pilgrimage #montréal #québec #canada #2023 #photographers on tumblr

[lounesdarbois]

« Sept mille inscrits de plus au pèlerinage cette année ! C’est le grand retour de la chrétienté ! » exultent ensemble les lecteurs de statistiques sur écran et les déplaceurs de pions sur carte d’état-major.

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#Paris-Match #E&R #Egaliteetreconciliation.fr #Paris-Chartres #Paris #Chartres #Pèlerinage #Pilgrimage #Catholique #Catholic

[angeltreasure]

#polls #pilgrimage #travel #Catholic #Catholicism #Catholic polls

[actualmermaid]

So, one of the legends of St. Patrick is that he "drove the snakes out of Ireland." No one really knows what this means, because there are no snakes that are native to Ireland. The settler pagan version is that the snakes represent the pagans, and that Patrick ethnically cleansed them from the island.

This isn't actually true--there were pagan High Kings of Ireland long after Patrick's death. Celtic/British Insular Christianity is actually very ancient as far as Christian history goes, and it was kind of weird and syncretic for a long time, so it's anachronistic to think of Christianity arriving in Ireland in the same way that the fully-developed Roman Catholic Church came to the Americas in the 1500s.

Early Irish churches had some contact with African Christianity. There are snakes in Africa.

So, I'm imagining an early Irish monk traveling to a monastery in North Africa to study some manuscripts. One morning, he gets up to go to prayers, and sees a BIG SNAKE with FANGS in his way and he's like "OH GOD DELIVER ME FROM THE SERPENTS OF THE WASTELAND etc etc etc"

(He asks the African monks why God had not banished the serpents as He had banished the devil from Eden, and the monks are like "idk dude")

So he goes back home to Ireland and tells everyone about the SERPENTS and DRAGONS and COCKATRICES and HYDRAS etc that live in Africa. The peasants are like "wow, I'm so glad we don't have those here, the fairies are enough to handle already" and the monk is like "I KNOW, RIGHT?"

So they come up with a just-so story: St. Patrick drove out the serpents of Ireland! Thank you, St. Patrick! We love you!

#christianity #history #things that might have happened #i am once again recommending the movie PILGRIMAGE (2017) for a dramatic story about the conflict between insular and catholic christianity

[bugatsu]

Catedral de Santiago

#travelphotography #spain #santiago de compostela #catedral de santiago de copmpostela #catholicism #cathedral de santiago #cathedral #catholism #catholic #caminodesantiago #pilgrimage

[lalarose216]

The view from my window in Assisi. The picture doesn’t do it half justice. In person the lights all look like they’re stars and I’m making wishes on them.

#italy #Rome #travelling #pilgrimage #Assisi #Saint ​Francis of Assisi #Franciscan #catholic #Christian

[femme-et-traditionnelle]

Do you have any advice for travelling to Lourdes?

Do you mean travelling as in how to get there? If so, I have no advice to give about that, I was fortunate enough to live rather close growing up and to be able to get there withing a few hours drive.

If you are asking about recommendations while visiting, all I can say is I never booked an hotel linked to the sanctuary, you find plenty that are rather cheap and simple in the villages nearby, which also allow for some nice hikes in the lovely mountainous landscape all around.

The site is very easy to access and understand, their website is very much up-to-date so you don't miss a Mass or conference you would like to attend. Also, a lot of volunteers are there to help lost pilgrims on the site :)

Finally, definitely do the Stations of the Cross if possible while visiting! It is a demanding walk on a very inclined ground, but the bigger-than-life scenes are absolutely breath taking (https://femme-et-traditionnelle.tumblr.com/post/709623372719489024). This is what I miss the most from Lourdes, and would love do do it again, in better conditions (drink lots of water if doing it under the sun!!).

#personal #tradwife #traditional gender roles #traditional femininity #tradfem #traditional #catholic #ask #question #Lourdes #France #Catholicism #pilgrimage

[crustacean-man]

My favorite strategy in ck3 is offering guardianship to the children of other rulers and then converting them to Catholicism

Then after that asking the pope for a claim and slaughtering the child I taught in a year long siege

#crusader kings iii #catholic #crusader kings 3 #conquest #armed pilgrimage lol

[tradicatho]

Way of the Cross during Lent

#catholic #prayer #penance #pilgrimage

[mediapen]

this will surprise many of you but i came to this country for one reason. Salted sunflower seeds. and i cannot fucking find any

#also went to st patricks to like complete the death pilgrimage im on and it was fucking shut. AND they were playing bagpipes. as if the #thing u should subject to american catholics with an irish complex to is coloniser music! please!!!

[nmnomad]

El Santuario de Chimayó is a small Catholic church about 25 miles north of Santa Fe. The church itself is a beautiful example of Spanish Colonial architecture. It is one of several historical churches on the High Road to Taos, but, unlike the others, the Santuario is a National Historic Landmark with a story to tell. 💒 Chimayó is an important Catholic pilgrimage site, often cited as the “Lourdes of North America.” The small chapel attracts 300,000+ visitors a year; however, the largest pilgrimage (by far) is on Holy Thursday and Good Friday, with up to 30,000 people participating from around the world.

#church chimayo Catholic history NewMexico pilgrimage daytrip roadtrip travel offthebeatenpath