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pilgrimage - use in sentences
Converse of object
- perform: On the one hand, the obligation to perform the pilgrimage is an integral part of the Islamic tradition.
- organize: On the occasion of an organized pilgrimage to honor Our Lady of Sudbury, permission has been given for Benediction.
- undertake: A chance to undertake a four-day pilgrimage in Snowdonia.
- make: Every year I make a pilgrimage to Green Field to recharge my faith in creating a better world.
- join: By the time she joins the pilgrimage, she is on the lookout for number six.
Adjective modifier
- diocesan: Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes 24 th - 29 th July.
- ecumenical: The United Reformed Church has a history of introducing individuals to the world of academia and to ecumenical pilgrimage.
- yearly: It is taken on a yearly pilgrimage to Mecca.
- annual: Karen Ritchie made the annual pilgrimage to see some great dancers do rare things.
- medieval: Medieval pilgrimages ranged from an individual's visit to the shrine of a local saint through to the political posturing of the Crusades.
Modifies a noun
- route: In very ancient times the path appears to have provided a pilgrimage route from the west to the great temple at Avebury.
- destination: Canterbury and Leeds Castle: Canterbury has been known as an ancient pilgrimage destination since before the middle ages.
- center: Today Walsingham is a thriving ecumenical pilgrimage center which welcomes over 250,000 people each year.
- site: A souvenir of Knock, an Irish pilgrimage site.
- church: Here there is a beautiful pilgrimage church which from outside looks to be another C18 baroque church.
Noun used with modifier
- Passover: The Passover pilgrimage might be linked in with Jesus ' pilgrimage to the Passover in Jerusalem when he was twelve ( Luke 2:41-52 ).
- Buddhist: For centuries Ladakh has been on the Buddhist pilgrimage trail linking Kashmir and Tibet through the Himalaya.
Preposition: of
- faith: She advanced her on her pilgrimage of faith and loyally remained close to her son as far as the cross.
Preposition: for
- thousand: The apparition in 1917 has led to Fatima, in Portugal, being a major place of pilgrimage for thousands every year.
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