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Sacred tracks : 2000 years of Christian pilgrimage / James Harpur.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harpur, James.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--History.
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 191 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- Ever since the Magi trekked from the East to witness the birth of Jesus, pilgrims have undertaken long and often dangerous journeys to seek out holy Christian places. "Sacred Tracks" tells the 2,000-year-old story of Christian pilgrimage and the saints and pilgrims, shrines and cathedrals, relics and practices of a tradition that is still flourishing today. 63 color illustrations.
- Contents:
- Early Paths
- Beginnings 16
- The Age of Constantine 24
- Dark Age Journeys 34
- Decline and Revival 48
- Medieval Roads
- The New Millennium 58
- Pilgrimage and the Afterlife 62
- On the Road 73
- Rome 90
- Santiago de Compostela 99
- Canterbury 107
- Jerusalem and the Holy Land 115
- Changing Attitudes 122
- Modern Ways
- From Reformation to Romanticism 130
- Lourdes 142
- Knock 148
- Croagh Patrick 155
- Fatima 158
- Walsingham 164
- Iona 169
- Taize 175
- Gazetteer 182
- Chimayo (United States)
- Czestochowa (Poland)
- Garabandal (Spain)
- Lough Derg (Ireland)
- Medjugorje (Bosnia)
- Our Lady of Guadelupe (Mexico)
- Sainte Anne de Beaupre, Canada.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520233956
- OCLC:
- 50285227
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