pilgrimage 
pil·grim·age (pil′grə mij)
noun
- a journey made by a pilgrim, esp. to a shrine or holy place
- any long journey, as to a place of historical interest
Etymology: ME pilgrymage < OFr pelegrinage < pelegrin, pilgrim
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.
Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage, And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
My Sword, I give to him that shall succeed me in my Pilgrimage, and my Courage and Skill, to himthat can get it. My Marks and Scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me, that Ihave fought his Battles, who now will be my Rewarder As he went, he said,Death, where is thy Sting? And as he went down deeper, he said,Grave where is thy Victory? So he passed over, and the Trumpets sounded for him on the other side.
We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not whyö What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.
O God of Bethel! by whose hand Thy people still are fed, Who through this weary pilgrimage Hast all our fathers led.
And Jacobsaid unto Pharaoh,The days oftheyears of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: fewand evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
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