The Catholic Church has designated its Jubilee Year – a year only occurring once every quarter of a century – ‘Pilgrims of Hope.’ As pilgrimage seems set to become bigger than ever before in modern times, my article for i Paper, as the feature piece in the travel section this weekend, explores the best British pilgrimage trails. Interestingly, they explore not only important Christian routes, but also places of significance to pagans, and the stomping grounds of monarchs. For pilgrimage does not have to be a religious thing. It has to be a spiritual one and, in the general opinion of those who seek to define the term, entail a journey of self-discovery to some extent that runs parallel with the physical one…
See the link for the online version or the images underneath for the print one!
The UK’s Best Pilgrimage Walks from Pagan Wonders to Chaucerian Landscapes
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