The Pilgrim S Stone

Author : Gauthier Bscn,Heather Gauthier
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1983897655

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The Pilgrim's Stone by Gauthier Bscn,Heather Gauthier Pdf

In this poignant and hysterical memoir, The Pilgrim's Stone evokes a raw tumult of emotions through one woman's unpredictable and authentic journey to self. At 34, Heather Gauthier lost everything but her sense of humor. Stripped of her home, job, hair and divorcing during chemotherapy; she meets a pilgrim who pulls her out of darkness with the gift of a stone. For years, the stone continues to reappear until she heeds its call and vows to walk the 800 km trail of the Compostela de Santiago, in search of balance for her body mind and soul. Without a map or a compass to guide her, she endures countless misadventures including dinner with her pseudo ex-husband, haunting dreams, and a plane collision with a flock of Canadian Geese. Despite each disaster that occurs, valuable lessons about life are inadvertently learned; while deep spiritual experiences motivate her to continue walking. Step by step, she begins to heal her past with a gritty sense of humor, moving steadily towards Santiago with only the humble purpose of gratitude for the divine forces that have spared her life.

Author : Annie Dillard
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780061843174

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Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard Pdf

"A collection of meditations like polished stones--painstakingly worded, tough-minded, yet partial to mystery, and peerless when it comes to injecting larger resonances into the natural world." — Kirkus Reviews Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings. Veering away from the long, meditative studies of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek or Holy the Firm, Annie Dillard explores and celebrates moments of spirituality, dipping into descriptions of encounters with flora and fauna, stars, and more, from Ecuador to Miami.

Author : Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green
Publisher : BAR International Series
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021851857

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Pilgrims in Stone by Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green Pdf

The site at Fontes Sequanae, near Dijon in Burgundy, is notable for its rich imagery in wood and stone, and itssmall votive offerings in bronze. This book is a study of stone pilgrim imagery from the Gallo-Roman shrine to Sequanae, set in the wider context of a large number of curative cult-sites in Roman Gaul.

Author : Julia Cartwright
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:4064066155537

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The Pilgrims' Way from Winchester to Canterbury by Julia Cartwright Pdf

'The Pilgrims' Way from Winchester to Canterbury' by Julia Cartwright is an enthralling account of the path walked by medieval pilgrims through the South of England to the shrine of St. Thomas of Canterbury. Cartwright not only describes the route but also the various antiquities and points of interest along the way, including ancient churches and historic houses. The beauty of the countryside, the rich history, and the significance of the pilgrimage make this a must-read for anyone interested in England's past.

Author : Ian Reader,John Shultz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197573617

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Pilgrims Until We Die by Ian Reader,John Shultz Pdf

The Shikoku pilgrimage, a 1400 kilometre, eighty-eight temple circuit around Japan's fourth largest island, takes around forty days by foot, or one week by car. Historically, Buddhist ascetics walked it without ceasing, creating a tradition of unending pilgrimage that continues in the present era, both by pilgrims on foot and by others in cars. Some spend decades walking the pilgrimage, while others drive it repeatedly, completing hundreds of pilgrimage circuits. Most are retired and make the pilgrimage the centre of their post-work lives. Others who work full-time spend their holidays and weekends as pilgrims. Some have only done the pilgrimage a few times but already imagine themselves as unending pilgrims and intend to do it "until we die". They talk happily of being addicted and having Shikokuby?, 'Shikoku illness', portraying this 'illness' and addiction as blessings. Featuring extensive fieldwork and interviews, this study of Japan's most famous Buddhist pilgrimage presents new theoretical perspectives on pilgrimage in general, along with rich ethnographic examples of pilgrimage practices in contemporary Japan. Pilgrims Until We Die counteracts normative portrayals of pilgrimage as a transient activity, defined by a temporary leave of absence from home to visit sacred places outside the parameters of everyday life, showing that many participants view pilgrimage as a way of creating a sense of home and permanence on the road. Examining how obsession, devotion, and a sense of addiction aided by modern developments and economic factors have created a culture of recurrent pilgrimage, Pilgrims Until We Die challenges standard understandings of pilgrimage.

Author : Peter Muller
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848253421

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Every Pilgrim's Guide to Walking to Santiago de Compostela by Peter Muller Pdf

Every year, some 200,000 people set out on the world's most famous pilgrimage route - 'the Camino', designated a World Heritage Site in 1993. Actually a network of paths with numerous starting places in France and throughout Europe, all routes converge to lead along Spain's northern coast to Santiago de Compostela. Here the shrine of St James, the patron saint of pilgrimage, was discovered in the 9th century. Already the preferred guide for German and Spanish pilgrims, this new English edition is co-published with the Confraternity of St James, the UK's leading organisation for promoting pilgrimage to Santiago. A mix of practical information and spiritual inspiration for walkers, it offers a stage-by-stage guide pointing out places of interest along the way; practical tips for walkers; prayers, blessings and spiritual exercises to nourish the pilgrim spirit and deepen the pilgrimage experience. It is illustrated throughout with maps and photographs, and conveniently pocket sized.

Author : Nahum Gale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : History
ISBN : NYPL:33433081763504

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The Pilgrims' First Year in New England by Nahum Gale Pdf

The Pilgrims' First Year in New England by Nahum Gale, first published in 1857, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Author : Lady Evelyn Cobbold
Publisher : Claritas Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781905837847

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A Pilgrim's Journey by Lady Evelyn Cobbold Pdf

After spending her childhood holidays in North Africa (specifically, Libya) Lady Evelyn became fascinated with the Muslim way of life and eventually converted to Islam. This book recounts her travels to Medina to visit the Prophet’s mosque and then to Mecca to perform Hajj on 26 March 1933 at the age of 65. Lady Evelyn was a Scottish aristocrat, a Mayfair socialite, an accomplished angler and renowned deerstalker. She was the first British Muslim woman to make the pilgrimage to Mecca. Her pilgrimage account, first published in 1934, received favourable reviews in most British newspapers and periodicals. Unlike other authors of Hajj accounts, she was able to describe the lives of women residing in the holy cities. "It is a valuable record of the hajj ... We do not forget that the author is a Lady - she stays with the distinguished St John Philbys in Jeddah and travels to Mecca in a large limousine with chilled chicken and soda-water in a hamper at the back - but the picture she gives of the experience is unelaborate and revealing, and detailed enough to serve as a guidebook as well as a travel account." (p.41, Robinson, Wayward Women, Oxford University Press, 1990). Lady Evelyn (then, Zainab Cobbold) died in 1963 and was buried on a hillside on her estate in Wester Ross. 'Her splendidly Islamo-Caledonian interment symbolised her two worlds: a piper played MacCrimmon's Lament, while the Surah "Light" from the Quran was recited in Arabic.' (Facey, From Mayfair to Mecca, Guardian, 19 May 2008).

Author : Nicole Chareyron
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231529617

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Pilgrims to Jerusalem in the Middle Ages by Nicole Chareyron Pdf

"Every man who undertakes the journey to the Our Lord's Sepulcher needs three sacks: a sack of patience, a sack of silver, and a sack of faith."—Symon Semeonis, an Irish medieval pilgrim As medieval pilgrims made their way to the places where Jesus Christ lived and suffered, they experienced, among other things: holy sites, the majesty of the Egyptian pyramids (often referred to as the "Pharaoh's granaries"), dips in the Dead Sea, unfamiliar desert landscapes, the perils of traveling along the Nile, the customs of their Muslim hosts, Barbary pirates, lice, inconsiderate traveling companions, and a variety of difficulties, both great and small. In this richly detailed study, Nicole Chareyron draws on more than one hundred firsthand accounts to consider the journeys and worldviews of medieval pilgrims. Her work brings the reader into vivid, intimate contact with the pilgrims' thoughts and emotions as they made the frequently difficult pilgrimage to the Holy Land and back home again. Unlike the knights, princes, and soldiers of the Crusades, who traveled to the Holy Land for the purpose of reclaiming it for Christendom, these subsequent pilgrims of various nationalities, professions, and social classes were motivated by both religious piety and personal curiosity. The travelers not only wrote journals and memoirs for themselves but also to convey to others the majesty and strangeness of distant lands. In their accounts, the pilgrims relate their sense of astonishment, pity, admiration, and disappointment with humor and a touching sincerity and honesty. These writings also reveal the complex interactions between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Holy Land. Throughout their journey, pilgrims confronted occasionally hostile Muslim administrators (who controlled access to many holy sites), Bedouin tribes, Jews, and Turks. Chareyron considers the pilgrims' conflicted, frequently simplistic, views of their Muslim hosts and their social and religious practices.

Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Arabian Peninsula
ISBN : HARVARD:32044066314345

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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah by Sir Richard Francis Burton Pdf

Author : Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Palestine
ISBN : IOWA:31858015381530

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The Library of the Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society by Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society (London, England) Pdf

Author : Henry SMITH (of King's College, London.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025722335

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The Pilgrim's Staff, and Christian's Daily Walk, a Series of Meditations ... for Every Morning and Evening Throughout the Year, Compiled from the Writings of the Primitive Fathers, the Early Reformers, Etc by Henry SMITH (of King's College, London.) Pdf

Author : Renana Bartal,Neta Bodner,Bianca Kuhnel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351809276

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Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500 by Renana Bartal,Neta Bodner,Bianca Kuhnel Pdf

Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500, focuses on the unique ways that natural materials carry the spirit of place. Since early Christianity, wood, earth, water and stone were taken from loca sancta to signify them elsewhere. Academic discourse has indiscriminately grouped material tokens from holy places and their containers with architectural and topographical emulations, two-dimensional images and bodily relics. However, unlike textual or visual representations, natural materials do not describe or interpret the Holy Land; they are part of it. Tangible and timeless, they realize the meaning of their place of origin in new locations. What makes earth, stones or bottled water transported from holy sites sacred? How do they become pars pro toto, signifying the whole from which they were taken? This book will examine natural media used for translating loca sancta, the processes of their sanctification and how, although inherently abstract, they become charged with meaning. It will address their metamorphosis, natural or induced; how they change the environment to which they are transported; their capacity to translate a static and distant site elsewhere; the effect of their relocation on users/viewers; and how their containers and staging are used to communicate their substance.

Author : John Bunyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z267531407

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The Pilgrim's Progress Grace Abounding and a Relation of His Imprisonment Ed. ... by Edmund Venables by John Bunyan Pdf

Author : James Harpur
Publisher : Lion Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780745968971

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The Pilgrim Journey by James Harpur Pdf

Pilgrimage in the Western world is enjoying a growing popularity, perhaps more so now than at any time since the Middle Ages. The Pilgrim Journey tells the fascinating story of how pilgrimage was born and grew in antiquity, how it blossomed in the Middle Ages and faltered in subsequent centuries, only to re-emerge stronger than before in modern times. James Harpur describes the pilgrim routes and sacred destinations past and present, the men and women making the journey, the many challenges of travel, and the spiritual motivations and rewards. He also explores the traditional stages of pilgrimage, from preparation, departure, and the time on the road, to the arrival at the shrine and the return home. At the heart of pilgrimage is a spiritual longing that has existed from time immemorial. The Pilgrim Journey is both the colourful chronicle of numerous pilgrims of centuries past searching for heaven on earth, and an illuminating guide for today's spiritual traveller.