Following the bad weather conditions, the authorities have suspended the yatra and all the pilgrims have been asked to remain at the base camp. |
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Delicate ecosystems worldwide are threatened with irrevocable decline beneath the massed boots of latter-day pilgrims. |
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A thousand miles from anywhere, the Azores are a natural layover for voyaging sailors and adventurous pilgrims. |
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The most succulent treats are left here by pilgrims who crowd into a small antechamber accessible only to the temple priests. |
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In Asia, a wide array of sites offers unique and revelatory experiences for both curious visitors and devoted pilgrims. |
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The pilgrims go around the entire building seven times in the anticlockwise direction. |
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John Paul II last made an appearance on Sunday, waving to about 300 hymn-singing pilgrims below and making the sign of the cross. |
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Millions of pilgrims are expected to walk between Najaf and Karbala and other Shiite strongholds in Iraq. |
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They were sitting on the steps or resting on the balconies of the teahouses, staring at the tired, footsore pilgrims as they trudged past. |
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A flying wedge splits the pilgrims in half with some premier-division high-elbow work. |
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Visiting relatives, dignitaries, or pilgrims would return home bearing cache blades, cores, and bladelets made from Flint Ridge flint. |
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Ordinary pilgrims from all points of the compass purchase religious amulets and books. |
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But each district of Rome had a hospital, and there were hospitals for pilgrims, lying-in hospitals, hospitals for convalescents. |
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A fire-walking festival held at Katagarama attracts pilgrims from all over the island, as do other sacred centers of Buddhism. |
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There are still a number of places available, but it is important that intending pilgrims give their names immediately to Tully's Travel. |
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Two other pilgrims from India joined us and together we fought our way through the dense crowd. |
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It was the worst disaster at the annual pilgrimage, or Hajj, since 1997, when 340 pilgrims died in a fire at the overcrowded Mina tent camp. |
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Literary pilgrims will find a plaque on the wall commemorating their time there. |
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Along the way Clark relates the stories of 11th-century religious pilgrims alongside her contemporary journey of rediscovery. |
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Nonetheless, pilgrims of whatever religious belief often find the hike to be one of the most spiritually meaningful events of their lives. |
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Religious pilgrims are trampling the grounds of the El Carmen monastery in the Sierra del Nixcongo Mountains near Mexico City. |
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No need was felt to perform religious rites for the dead pilgrims and devotees. |
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In this deeply religious country, pilgrims make the journey on foot from long distances to visit the churches of Lalibela. |
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Many of the pilgrims and sadhus carry plastic sheets and umbrellas over their heads. |
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Andrea, who has Down Syndrome, has apparently displayed a sort of religious telepathy to the pilgrims who show up. |
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Wherever there was room on the banks of this sacred Pamba river, pilgrims were busy doing something. |
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He said the government had hired the helicopter for ferrying the Amarnath pilgrims but due to the snag it has been grounded. |
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They prepared proper accommodations and obtained special indulgences for the pilgrims so that their visit would be as spiritual as possible. |
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The image isn't falsely romanticized, and it includes foreign tourists alongside Indian pilgrims. |
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I noticed the penitential beds where the pilgrims who come for three days walk barefoot and also saw the dormitories where people sleep. |
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In 1975, he was given responsibility for the pastoral care of Dublin pilgrims during the HolyYear in Rome. |
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Each year in winter there is a four-day ritual circumambulation of the mountain by thousands of pilgrims who visit sites of myth and legend. |
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Gilded statues and carvings adorn the walls and pilgrims come from far and wide. |
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On a sweltering hot day, May 31, 1982, Pope John Paul II arrived at the racecourse to be welcomed by a sea of pilgrims. |
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In this pericope there is no donkey colt, no crowd of pilgrims shouting praises, no waving of palm branches, no hosannas. |
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Innumerable pandas and pujaris await the pilgrims to help them with their worship. |
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The richest pilgrims were carried up in wooden palanquins by tough, wiry hillmen. |
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However, the pillar has been chipped away by pilgrims and is now reduced to a stump. |
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But this was just to touch at the first impressions of a land where hermits, monks and pilgrims remain part of the essential tapestry of life. |
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The pilgrims adore the sun rising while striking hands and while greeting them piously. |
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Around the temple are other structures in ruins, and clearly, this was once a township throbbing with pilgrims and the chant of mantras. |
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Many pilgrims report seeing the doves-pair when they trek the arduous route to pay obeisance before the ice-lingam. |
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The hajj links pilgrims with Muslims around the world symbolically, ritually, and politically. |
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A variety of businesses catered to the nonspiritual needs of the vast numbers of pilgrims swarming to Ise. |
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With a squall bearing down, the captain and crew abandon ship, leaving 800 religious pilgrims to their deaths. |
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As vespers drew to a close the pilgrims began to file quietly out and I was left alone at the back of the church with my rucksack. |
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Today, pilgrims travel to Sergiyev Posad to venerate the saint's relics, and 300 seminarians study theology there. |
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Lourdes, a small town in the Pyrenees in south-west France now attracts five million pilgrims every year from all over the world. |
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What madness drives these sooty pilgrims to wander to and fro on dirty city streets? |
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The desert tribes derived a part of their revenue from brigandage against other tribes, pilgrims and travellers. |
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These new northern pilgrims are less snooty than their colonising predecessors. |
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Promptly after sunset, the pilgrims travel through the mountain pass of Muzdalifa, where they spend the night under the open sky. |
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His bloodsoaked vestments are now on display in San Salvador for pilgrims and tourists to see. |
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At the temples, Hindu and Sikh pilgrims wrap rice in a thin pink scarf and place it in the water to be cooked, blessed and then eaten. |
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I noticed a number of Sikh families among the pilgrims and decided to approach them. |
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According to Uphof fruits preserved in cans, with salt water and sugar, are eaten by Muhammadan pilgrims during their journeys to Mecca. |
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When pilgrims and the holy men of the shrine gathered to hear Guru Nanak and question him, he sang in Persian. |
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Last year, 14 pilgrims were trampled to death during the ritual and 35 died in a 2001 stampede. |
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For nearly as long, pilgrims with a bent for writing have felt compelled to set down what they experienced. |
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A time bomb, packed with about 6.6lbs of explosive, went off among pilgrims as they took supper in an open area about 490 ft from the shrine. |
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He mediates arguments between the pilgrims and interjects his comments throughout the different tales. |
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We made our way through the throngs of pilgrims gathered about the sanctuary to be healed. |
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During the course of the run they also made some friends, in a group of Spanish pilgrims who were walking the same route. |
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But perhaps the biggest change was in the number of pilgrims walking the yatra route. |
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Advice from the Department of Health is for all pilgrims to obtain the quadrivalent meningococcal vaccine. |
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The government of Saudi Arabia has now made quadrivalent meningococcal vaccination a visa requirement for pilgrims. |
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Incense burned near the altar, and pilgrims were deeply absorbed in their prayers in front of the statue. |
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After boarding the Ariana jetliner, Rahman found himself and his aircraft surrounded by several thousand irate pilgrims. |
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On Thursday morning the pilgrims headed for Assisi, on the beautiful Adriatic coast of Italy. |
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Some of the boats keel over and sink, spilling pilgrims and fuel into the harbour. |
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Since there was no body to entomb there is no shrine to him to which pilgrims can repair. |
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There are also a large number of mobile dispensaries and clinics where doctors are busy dispensing medicines to pilgrims. |
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The Mayflower Compact was a social contract the pilgrims signed in November 1620 in order to establish law and order in the new colony. |
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The pilgrims had an extra long journey due to the extra security at the Airport. |
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It will undertake projects to provide proper drinking water, waste disposal and sanitation facilities for pilgrims. |
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Pandas are hereditary priests who assist pilgrims with the temple rituals and record the visit in their pilgrim register. |
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One must also be very alert to the fact that some pilgrims of certain nationalities come in bunches and batches and push their way through. |
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The ministry had promised earlier to fully refund the money that the would-be pilgrims had paid several months earlier. |
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The federal police will also frisk pilgrims, search their belongings and maintain order within their camps. |
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It was unclear whether he was suggesting that officials incited the mob or whether pilgrims gave cover to attackers. |
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Early in the afternoon, they approached a small cottage, where no well could be seen, but the pilgrims were thirsty and dry. |
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The inmates mingle with the townspeople and pilgrims and when Fay refuses to identify them so they can be locked up again, she has to scarper to avoid arrest. |
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However, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see sick pilgrims now queueing to visit the restorative canals in the Bow area to take the waters and heal themselves. |
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Under wrong information conveyed to them by Lalan's fellow pilgrims of the past, his kindred had by now taken him to be dead and had performed his last rites. |
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They are true pilgrims who witness to us the meaning of hope. |
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In India, tens of thousands of Hindu pilgrims jostled to take holy baths in the sacred River Ganges after performing special prayers for ancestors during the eclipse. |
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And after that simple little speech, and of course seeing the home, seeing what she did there, the pilgrims were throwing krugerrands into collection plates. |
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Its final destination was Ferrol, a popular launching spot for religious pilgrims walking to Santiago de Compostelo. |
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Some are pilgrims from out of town, come to savor the best granola on the West Coast. |
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In Mauritania, Chinguetti once flourished with scholars, pilgrims, and religious leaders. |
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Thanks to the activities of two Athonite monks, we are in a position to glean a considerable amount of valuable information on the pilgrims who visited the monastery. |
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Red limestone cliffs front the sapphire-blue surface of Lake Nam Tsho, where Tibetan pilgrims gather at a shoreline dotted with migratory cranes and geese. |
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We meet unassuming mendicants who may turn out to be rishis in disguise, pilgrims who may be exiled kings, or noblemen undertaking acts of penance. |
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Most of the remaining knights took the remaining ships and sailed for Antioch, leaving the foot soldiers and the pilgrims to shift for themselves. |
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Commonly, pilgrims misperceive this vision and incorrectly assume that the vision is a piece of land devoid of rocks and stones upon which something may be built. |
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The stations seem to have originated in the pious practice of pilgrims to the Holy Land who visited the sites of the life, suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus. |
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In their capacity as culture brokers boatmen also assume a position of authority when guiding pilgrims, selectively informing them about the city. |
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I walked in the company of bearded, cassocked monks, then a pair of elderly pilgrims whose fingers flicked worry beads in hands clasped behind their backs. |
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With a heavy inflow of pilgrims adding to the hectic business activity on the streets branching out from the temple, regulating traffic is not an easy task. |
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Other pilgrims, including not a few former Cathars, came as penitents. |
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It was laid by the monks themselves, and the church at the top was a chapel of ease, where pilgrims would rest on the way to seeing Hailes's phial of holy blood. |
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To add to the incessant cacophony of all the usual hucksters and souvenir traders, the pilgrims and the clergy, the temple is also still being built. |
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We arrived at 4am. and after the cleansing ritual came the circumvolution of the Ka'abah where the pilgrims walk round the Ka'abah 7 times following the rituals of Abraham. |
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The tradition dates back to the 16th century, when Italian war veterans decorated piazzas with pastel images of the Madonna to earn donations from pilgrims. |
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So, if a resident of Jeddah offers the pilgrimage, he or she should do the tawaf of farewell at the end of their pilgrimage, like all pilgrims who come from outside Makkah. |
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Last week, the Cabinet unilaterally relaxed curbs on the travel of businesspeople and religious pilgrims between Kinmen and Matsu and cities in Fujian Province. |
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For Goddess pilgrims, as for orthodox religious pilgrims, the sacred place is a place of power which can work upon the pilgrim at various levels of their being. |
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At least 125,000 Hindu pilgrims are making the annual pilgrimage. |
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A nurse in Sudan and Nigeria, Catherine now spends her days in St John's Rest and Care looking after invalids and sick pilgrims who come to Knock. |
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Safe journey to all our invalids, helpers and pilgrims from the parish who travelled on Sunday to participate in the Annual Armagh Pilgrimage to Lourdes. |
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He served as a steward at Knock Shrine for 15 years and willingly gave of his time to assist the invalids and pilgrims throughout the pilgrimage season. |
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The city is visited annually by millions of people from the four corners of the earth, who attend conferences and cultural events or come as pilgrims or private tourists. |
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The idol was, and is, annually dragged forth in procession on a monstrous car, and as masses of excited pilgrims crowded round to drag or accompany it, accidents occurred. |
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Ajmer, the heart of the state is famous as Khwaja ki Nagri where the dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti attracts lakhs of pilgrims from all faiths. |
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Even as the yatra officially started on July 15, devotees have been visiting the holy cave one month prior and so far 54000 pilgrims have had darshan at the shrine. |
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Among the most vibrant evidence for the cult of the saints are the ex-voto gifts left in thanksgiving by pilgrims whose prayers had been answered. |
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Big disinfecting plants were installed where the pilgrims went through an ordeal of cleansing on a production line basis. |
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This merge with pilgrims has a major impact on the society, religion, and economy of Jeddah. |
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Back then, there were just a dozen or so pilgrims, and men and women davened together, on either side of the grave. |
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However, Jeddah has remained as key civilian harbor, serving fishermen and sea travelling pilgrims to Hajj. |
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This act greatly diminished the seasonal influx of pilgrims, thus damaging the local economy. |
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In one scene a local historian lectures an audience of British soldiers about the pilgrims of Chaucer's time and the vibrant history of England. |
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It was reburied under a plain stone slab worn by the knees of pilgrims, but the ancient paving around it remains intact. |
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His animal pilgrims are on their way to find the common ancestor, each telling a tale about evolution. |
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Lydgate places himself among the pilgrims as one of them and describes how he was a part of Chaucer's trip and heard the stories. |
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Like the Tale of Beryn, it is preceded by a prologue in which the pilgrims arrive in Canterbury. |
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As the pilgrims turn back home, the Merchant restarts the storytelling with Tale of Beryn. |
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More specifically, pilgrims spent money and would leave gifts for the support of the cathedral. |
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Two tales, Sir Topas and The Tale of Melibee are told by Chaucer himself, who is travelling with the pilgrims in his own story. |
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He also sought to improve the conditions for pilgrims, as well as merchants, on the road to Rome. |
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They will walk the route taken by English pilgrims from Ferrol, on the north coast of Spain, to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela. |
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Lunate ceilings cover the temple, which are surrounded by corridors for pilgrims to circle the site. |
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No other work prior to Chaucer's is known to have set a collection of tales within the framework of pilgrims on a pilgrimage. |
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Most pilgrims prefer barbary sheep, a larger breed that costs only about SR500 per animal. |
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Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims were still in Mina without finishing the lapidation ritual. |
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The pilgrims walked through his 14 stations, chanting prayers and ending at the ancient Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Slive. |
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According to the repot, the Health Ministry said the deaths were among pilgrims who came from outside Saudi Arabia. |
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The pilgrims found the Wampanoag people using this approach when they first arrived in Massachusetts. |
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In 1373 Geoffrey Chaucer visited and among the pilgrims in his Canterbury Tales. |
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The Mughals maintained a small fleet for carrying pilgrims to Mecca, and imported Arabian horses in Surat. |
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When Thomas Becket was murdered and subsequently enshrined at Canterbury, York found itself with a rival major draw for pilgrims. |
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The first group of 300 pilgrims arrived Sunday, sources at the Nigerian Embassy said. |
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The Alps have been crossed for war and commerce, and by pilgrims, students and tourists. |
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Henry, the founder of the Church of England, may have wanted to benefit from the stream of pilgrims coming to the town. |
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The inferior pilgrims and paupers were relegated to the north hall or almonry, just within the gate. |
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After that date, the relics of Saint James attracted an extraordinary number of pilgrims. |
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According to the Hadj and Umra Center of Kyrgyzstan, 3 466 pilgrims from Kyrgyzstan registered for Hadj 2012, reported press office of Muftiyat. |
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An infirmarian treated not only other monks but pilgrims, workers, and the poor men, women, and children in the monastery's hospice. |
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This duty extended to lodging and medical treatment of pilgrims to the temple at Jerusalem. |
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We are pilgrims, our life is a long walk or journey from earth to heaven. |
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Last year, more than 20,000 pilgrims visited for the November anniversary. |
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It is used in part to mask the scent of the many tired, unwashed pilgrims huddled together in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. |
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Every man on board was killed except for a tall man the pilgrims assumed was the leader. |
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Iona Abbey, now an ecumenical church, is of particular historical and religious interest to pilgrims and visitors alike. |
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The presence of the community attracts many visitors and pilgrims who come to join in the various liturgical celebrations. |
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For long years David Adam was rector of Holy Island and ministered to thousands of pilgrims and other visitors. |
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In the event, Henry VI was not canonised and the project was abandoned, although the shrine continued to attract a flood of pilgrims. |
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Pilgrimage basilicas continue to attract well over 30 million pilgrims per year. |
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The community is internationally known, attracting over 100,000 young pilgrims annually. |
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They were discalced to a man like pilgrims of some common order for all their shoes were long since stolen. |
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Rome for many centuries had been the goal of pilgrims, especially during Jubilee when they visited the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome. |
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Millions of pilgrims visit the shrines of Our Lady of Lourdes and Our Lady of Fatima. |
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Many pilgrims from all over the world continue to visit Holywell and the Well. |
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Many have holy connotations and they were important stops for pilgrims heading to the island. |
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Because of this, a vast income was raised from visiting pilgrims in the Middle Ages. |
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Canterbury, because of its religious history, had always seen many pilgrims, and after the death of Thomas Becket their numbers rose rapidly. |
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In the years that followed his death, Simon de Montfort's grave was frequently visited by pilgrims. |
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The presence of the pilgrims brought about increased trade and development. |
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Nowadays, however, pilgrims complete the circuit over the course of several years. |
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Jeddah has been established as the main city of the historic Hijaz province and a historic port for pilgrims arriving by sea to perform their Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca. |
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Following the French Norman invasion into England, the explosion of French ideals led most Medieval monasteries to develop a hospitium or hospice for pilgrims. |
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In the General Prologue, some thirty pilgrims are introduced. |
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As a venerated saint his tomb attracted many pilgrims to Lindisfarne. |
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About 15 to 20 million pilgrims visit the shrine every year. |
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Habeeb Zain Al-Abidine, deputy minister of municipal and rural affairs, said the monorails would transport 500,000 pilgrims between the holy sites within six to eight hours. |
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Like a busy escalator at a department store, a moving sidewalk carries pilgrims past the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe at the basilica in Mexico City. |
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In 999, according to Amatus of Montecassino, Norman pilgrims returning from Jerusalem called in at the port of Salerno when a Saracen attack occurred. |
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On 17 November 1326, following a month spent in Mecca, Ibn Battuta joined a large caravan of pilgrims returning to Iraq across the Arabian Peninsula. |
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Interior Minister Prince Ahmed has warned pilgrims against politicizing the Haj pilgrimage, saying those involved in such activities would be driven away. |
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Jerusalem remained economically sterile despite the advantages of being the centre of administration of church and state and benefitting from streams of pilgrims. |
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Lastly, Chaucer does not pay much attention to the progress of the trip, to the time passing as the pilgrims travel, or to specific locations along the way to Canterbury. |
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Other ports such as Genoa, Pisa, Marseille, Ancona and Dubrovnik were hardly able to make any competition to the well organized transportation of pilgrims from Venice. |
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Finally, a choir was added around the start of the 15th century After, Frederick Barbarossa canonised Charlemagne, in 1165, the chapel became a destination for pilgrims. |
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In the heyday of the Silent Walk, up to 90,000 pilgrims came to Amsterdam. |
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If I profane with my unworthiest hand, This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this, My lips two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. |
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The truce did allow those religious pilgrims who were travelling to Olympia to pass through warring territories unmolested because they were protected by Zeus. |
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Throngs of pilgrims, young and old, women and men, rich and poor, ritually circumambulated around the statue in prayerful silence, hands clasped at their chests. |
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The movie opens with a group of medieval pilgrims journeying through the Kentish countryside as a narrator speaks the opening lines of the General Prologue. |
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During the remaining three days of the hajj, the pilgrims continue the ritual stoning before performing the circumambulation of the Kaaba shrine in Mecca and heading home. |
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The Matchmaking Festival provided social events for these lonely-hearted pilgrims, and allowed local personages to keep undesirables away from their daughters. |
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In the year 1300, Pope Boniface VIII directed pilgrims to keep left. |
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They are also assisting security men ease congestion near the Grand Mosque, helping pilgrims in their circumambulation and facilitating their religious rituals. |
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Place names including ysbyty denote their association with pilgrims. |
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A total of about 875,000 pilgrims are expected to travel over the next 25 days until the middle of Shawwal, according to KAIA Director General Abdul Hameed Abalarry. |
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Many pilgrims passed through Cardiganshire on their way to St Davids. |
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