Sentences with phrase «of pilgrims»

The tens of thousands of pilgrims who come to this place know exactly who he was and why he died.

The hotel is right next to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, reputed to be the burial place of St James the Greater and the destination of thousands of pilgrims who have walked along the Way of St James.

In 1349 (A.D. 1930) thirty - three thousand pilgrims went from Indonesia in a year when the total number of pilgrims from overseas was eighty - five thousand; the next year the figures were seventeen thousand and forty thousand respectively.

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from around the globe have come to Rio de Janiero for World Youth Day, a week long festival held every two years.

After the mainland was locked behind the iron curtain Chinese Muslims were not allowed to leave the country, so the number of pilgrims in recent years has been quite small.

The sailors on the Mayflower didn't care for the Pilgrims and called them «flib - gabbety puke stockings» because so many of the Pilgrims got seasick.

Today, Lourdes attracts millions of pilgrims annually — to our Medieval ancestors it was unknown.

Even though The Ancestor's Tale is based loosely on the fanciful life stories shared by a group of pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Dawkins found himself unable to adopt the voice of a platypus or any other animal and write in the first person.

Sleepily tucked away amongst the mountains above the historic mining town of Pilgrims Rest lies Mount Sheba...

Sleepily tucked away amongst the mountains above the historic mining town of Pilgrims Rest lies Mount Sheba Country Lodge.

Because of the large numbers of pilgrims coming through northern Spain, most towns have restaurants offering Pilgrim menus, meaning you can get a balanced meal with some kind of meat, potatoes or rice, and veggies for about 10 Euros.

Dozens of pilgrims with various ailments queue behind them.

The irony of a country full of descendants of Pilgrims, Quakers, Catholics, etc trying to declare this a «Christian nation» is just awesome...

At his funeral, thousands of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square and chanted «Santo Subito» - Sainthood Now!

Around the window of this tiny room throngs of pilgrims crowd — some kneeling, some weeping, some saying the rosary, but all in deep devotion and fervent expectation.

Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.»

The duo's most unusual movie, A Canterbury Tale sees them lean on Chaucer's work to inspire a story of pilgrims during World War II.

Under the present government the Ministry of Religious Affairs supervises the travel of the pilgrims to Mecca.

Today thousands of pilgrims journey annually to the island to worship at the reestablished monastery and venerate the places of suffering.

The reflections of the words of this book seek to help prepared a little the path of the pilgrim Church, so that even in our time it may proclaim and mediate the grace of God.

However, all these reflections seek to help prepare a little the path of the pilgrim Church, so that even in our time it may proclaim and mediate the grace of God.

Isn't is possible to «think outside the box» and still be part of a pilgrim community?

This off - centre film looks like a paean to devotion with its stately images of pilgrims seeking healing at a holy Catholic site.

In western Baghdad's Ghazaliya neighborhood a roadside bomb detonated near a gathering of pilgrims killing at least 10 and wounding 21 others, an Interior Ministry official said.

With thousands of pilgrims visiting the holy city of Mecca each year from all over the world, word of the «wine of Araby» as the drink was often called, was beginning to spread far beyond Arabia.

The classroom scenes are unfolding once again with the seasonal rhythm of autumn colors: teachers leading students through tales of Pilgrims and Indians, roast turkeys and pumpkin pies, Thanksgiving traditions and Colonial history.

The exhibition examined the history of this pilgrimage through the centuries, focusing on the rituals of Hajj as depicted through art, the routes taken and the experiences of pilgrims upon their return.

The Minister announced that, the first batch of pilgrims from Mecca will arrive at the Tamale Airport on the 22nd of this month and urged Muslims to come out in their numbers to welcome them.

Incidentally, the Templar knights that were assigned the protection of the pilgrims also became the first asset managers and bankers of the Christian world after the fall of

Fanwo expressed the governor's discontent with the dehumanising treatment of pilgrims from the state during the 2016 Hajj.

Pumpkins, leaves, baskets, candles leading up to my collection of Pilgrims and Indians and my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving.

Follow in the footsteps of the pilgrim fathers who departed here for the new world!

During the first winter, most of the Pilgrims lived aboard the Mayflower.

Pupils are guided to consider the motivations of pilgrims and compare and contrast these with other acts of devotion.

The Americas Madeira wine was the most favored American wine from the time of the pilgrims until the Civil War.

These are the same kinds of questions that Cheryl Durso's class face each year as they study the history of the Pilgrims coming to the New World.

A retelling of the pilgrim's plight in America on a half dozen pages, self - illustrated,....

Every year tens of thousands of pilgrims embark on the holy pilgrimage to the Amaranth temple in Jammu and Kashmir in India.

There are no online leaderboards which could have produced further competitive gameplay by having an online leaderboard displaying the fastest times set by every player who had completed each level and the best overall times set for the entire game, alongside the highest amount of pilgrims saved and points scored across each level and throughout the game.

Among Penida's most famous temples is Goa Giri Putri, a Balinese Hindu temple set within a limestone cave in the village of Karangsari, which sees a steady flow of pilgrims from the Bali mainland visiting to pay their respects and ask for holy water and blessings.

The group of pilgrims went to a man named Thomas Weston.

His family's trade was tent - making and their business was located in the «first belt» around the Haram Al - Sharif, and so Al - Salem spent the majority of his childhood within sight of the holy Ka» ba, helping his family sell tents to the myriad of pilgrims who came for Hajj.

Explaining the causes of the disappointment, the president said, it was because of a dramatic growth in the number of pilgrims as against the 5,424 quota set for Ghana by the Saudi Arabian government.

Rieff warned then that authentic spiritual renewal in Catholicism was liable to be confused with the therapeutic ethic, turning the spiritual prudence of pilgrims into the lifestyle ambitions of tourists.

The author does not dwell on the religious views of the Pilgrims, aside from the effects it had on the financing of the colony.

Yes, and many of those pilgrims thought Indians could not be saved and had no soul..

Augustine writes, «This heavenly city, then, while it sojourns on earth, calls citizens out of all nations, and gathers together a society of pilgrims of all languages, not scrupling about diversities in the manners, laws, and institutions whereby earthly peace is secured and maintained, but recognizing that, however various these are, they all tend to one and the same end of earthly peace.