pilgrimage

• Jerusalem

  • In Luke's Gospel, Jerusalem is where Jesus was taken by his parents.
  • It is where Jesus taught, was arrested, tried, crucified and buried.
  • The resurrection and ascension also took place in Jerusalem.
  • Pilgrims visit these sites as well as many churches, including the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Church of the Dormition.
• Iona

  •  a small island in the Inner Hebrides, was home to St. Columba from 563 AD.
  • St. Columba's missionary work in the 6th century brought Celtic Christianity to Scotland.
  • In around 1200, a Benedictine abbey and convent were established on Iona.
  • Lord George MacLeod founded the ecumenical Iona Community in 1938, which is a monastic (relating to those living under religious vows) organisation for different denominations.
• Taizé

  • The community at Taizé, a small village in central France, is an ecumenical monastic order with a devotion to peace and justice, achieved through prayer and meditation.
  • Made up of 100 Catholic and Protestant monks from over 30 countries across the world, prayer and silence are at the heart of the community.
  • Founded in 1940 by Roger Louis Schutz-Marsauche, every year tens of thousands of pilgrims still visit Taizé to share in their way of life, in which Ecumenism is the centre of their appeal.
  • Ecumenism is the promotion of unity among the Christian churches of the world.
• Walsingham

  • A village in Norfolk, England, in 1061 Walsingham was the site at which noblewoman Richeldis de Faverches had a vision of the Virgin Mary. She was told to build a copy of the house of the Holy Family in Nazareth.
  • This was to honour the to Mary by Angel Gabriel.
  • 1897 saw the restoration of the 'sliper chapel' where pilgrims used to rest on their way to Walsingham.
  • In 1931, the Anglican shrine was built very close to the 11th century one.