#pilgrimage

#pilgrimage

Fans' strong emotional attachment to favorite characters and celebrities leads to a desire for proximity. Travel to locations significant to fandom helps fans feel like part of the story - a source of meaning. Fans describe these pilgrimages as providing a sense of homecoming to a place that is new but familiar. The location is invested with the symbolism of something special and sacred, no matter how mundane it seems.

Over the past two decades, Clare Rojas has developed a deeply personal visual language that is equally rooted in mythology, ecofeminism, as well as the legacy of abstraction. Moving freely from dense, fantastical landscapes to minimal compositions, Rojas' own experiences are often the starting points of her paintings, connecting these to nearly fantastical depictions of the environments in which she works.

See them at low tide, scallop shells glittering on a scallop-edged shore, whittled by water into curvy rows the shape of waves that kiss the sand only to erode it. Today I walked that shoreline, humming, Camino Santiago, the road to St. James's tomb, where pilgrims traveled, scallop badges on their capes, and chanted prayers for a miracle to cure disease.

In a see-through safe carved into a wall behind the altar of a chapel in northern Rome lies a collection of relics of Carlo Acutis. These include a splinter from his wooden bed, a fragment of a jumper and a piece of the sheet used to cover him after his death. Locks of his hair are on display in other churches in the Italian capital and beyond.

On Tuesday morning, Mayor Daniel Lurie signed legislation banning RVs from parking for more than two hours on city streets, impacting a gathering of Deadheads around the Panhandle.

"The people in front of me were just stepping on women... Lots of very poor, very old, very fragile... they were like human debris on the floor."

Worshippers carried the statue from its shrine and paraded it through the streets of El Rocío, continuing a tradition that dates back to the 13th century.

The discovery of rare medieval inscriptions in Jerusalem’s Room of the Last Supper illuminates the expansive journey and cultural impact of medieval pilgrims.

"One of the most interesting features of the pilgrimage to Rome which will leave this borough tomorrow morning, headed by Bishop Charles E. McDonnell, will be the taking of two handsome memorials to present to Pope Leo XIII."

This year, Pakistani authorities granted more than 6,500 visas to Indian Sikhs, higher than previous years, facilitating their pilgrimage for Vaisakhi.