Getting Closer to God on Religious Pilgrimages in Gregory Chaucer's Cantebury Tales

For Christians this experiences includes … Being able to relate their experiences to other brothers and sisters who may not have had the opportunity. These Christian pilgrims also gain the experiences of the feeling of being closer to a deeper knowledge of the life, teaching and death of Christ. These pilgrims also tend to be able to have a clear understanding that Jerusalem is a city where many historical events took place especially on the Christian religion. When some Christian pilgrims go to these pilgrimage sites, they have a feeling of knowing that they have accomplished a major task in Christian religion, which is knowing about the history of Christianity and thereby taking it into historical account. As these pilgrims keep travelling to these religious, sacred sites there comes a time when in one way or the other, a remarkable point in their lives changes and bringing about unity, freedom, merits and protests.

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A Pilgrimage A pilgrimage is a journey undertaken for a religious reason. Since the time of Jesus Christians have visited the places associated with his birth, life and death. In addition to these sites in Israel there are many other centres of Christian pilgrimage Lourdes in France, Walsingham, and Canterbury in England, Holywell and Saint Davids in Wales, Rome, to name but a few. [IMAGE] The Roman Catholic Church has always taught that pilgrimage is a useful way to strengthen one's Christian faith. The Protestant Churches generally rejected the idea of pilgrimage because they believe that if it gives people the wrong idea about God.

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In the writing of Peter Brown, The Cult of the Saints, readers can see a clear picture of the raise and function within Latin Christianity in the late antiquity. Christians during this time were very concerned with life after death. Because of this, they turned to saints and reelects to act as the divine intervention between the moral world and the heavenly realm. The idea of worshiping relics is not a common part of Christianity today. As I read this writing of The Cult of the Saints, the idea of relics and the worship of the deceased, fascinated me.

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