Sentences with phrase «place of pilgrimage in»

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Muslim pilgrims gather in Medina, the burial place of the prophet Mohammed, for the Hajj pilgrimage.

C. S. Lewis wrote in a 1939 sermon: «If we thought we were building up a heaven on earth, if we looked for something that would turn the present world from a place of pilgrimage into a permanent city satisfying the soul of man, we are disillusioned.»

It explains why they built the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the most important Christian pilgrimage site in the world, in Jerusalem, right above the place where they believe Jesus rose from the dead.

The most popular of these shrine figures is the Virgin of Guadalupe, a dark - skinned (Indian) Mary whose veneration goes back to 1531.45 A basilica in her honor stands now at the place where she first appeared to a humble Indian, Juan Diego; and hundreds of thousands of Mexicans from all over the nation make pilgrimages there on the edge of Mexico City.

Rejecting the pseudo-Lutheran view which attempted to justify existence in this world as only being on a pilgrimage, Bonhoeffer now declares that a man «takes up his position against the world in the world; the calling is the place at which the call of Christ is answered, the place at which a man lives responsibly.

A pilgrimage place for those suffering nervous disorders and an open colony for the insane since the 13th century, the town has traditionally accommodated the patients in local families and allowed them to partake of almost all aspects of its daily life.

He had watched the sacred New Year procession; he had seen, for the pious but benighted Babylonian, a profound mystery taking place under the eyes of the beholder as Marduk and Nabu went out in solemn pilgrimage to the Akitu house, there to settle the fates of the incoming year; he had witnessed the annual festival in which Marduk triumphed over all his foes, cosmic and terrestrial, and himself died that life might once more return to the world.

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Its map of Buddhist pilgrimage places and its glossary of Buddhist terms are aids to the beginner in Buddhist studies.

«Taking life in one's stride» and living unreservedly in all that it brings, then, is accepting the world God has given us as the place of our pilgrimage.

This struggle for truth takes place in dialogue... For me this means that dialogue is a basic structure of Christian witness, and therefore quite naturally of all missionary witness, while we remain on the earthly pilgrimage.42

The real «hidden history» of the Communist collapse took place in the minds, hearts, and souls of those millions who were moved to take the risk of resistance by John Paul II's challenge to «call good and evil by name» (as the Pope put it on his second pilgrimage to Poland in 1983).

«The cabinet has banned the entry of all Saudi products and products from Saudi Arabia,» the government said in a statement, noting that a ban on Iranians travelling to the Saudi holy city of Mecca for the umrah pilgrimage was also in place «until further notice».

In response to the painting, the mountain became a place of pilgrimage, its water bottled by an enterprising company who sold it to those too sick to manage the ascent.

For Tibetans, kora means walking around a sacred place absorbed in prayer, a kind of pilgrimage that can encompass hundreds of miles or only a few yards.

Whether it is Bruce Chatwin's «In Patagonia» — one of the many possible places that he contracted HIV — or Craig Arnold's volcano pilgrimage blog, we are able to take part in their lives once liveIn Patagonia» — one of the many possible places that he contracted HIV — or Craig Arnold's volcano pilgrimage blog, we are able to take part in their lives once livein their lives once lived.

It is an outpost of a place I took a pilgrimage to in London last year, because my Wallpaper travel guide directed me there and told me there was a secret bakery on the top floor.

Saint Margaret's Well was a place of pilgrimage originally situated at Saint Margaret's Church in nearby Restalrig, The medieval well house was moved in 1860 to a natural spring in Holyrood Park.

The main purpose of placing replicas of mountains and lakes in temple is to save the time and effort needed to actually visit them since in the yester centuries pilgrimage to the mountains and lakes need a great deal preparation and time.

He was honored as a holy man and after he died in 1541 his tomb in Buda became an Islamic sacred place and a site of pilgrimage.

Chichen Itza was largely abandoned by the time the Spanish conquerors arrived in the Yucatan in the 16th century, but its Cenote Sagrado (Sacred Cenote) continued to be a place of pilgrimage for the Mayans.

Dark souls is the game where players assume the role of a cursed undead character who begins a pilgrimage to discover the fate of their kind, it takes place in a fictional kingdom of Lordan.

While her earlier work looked at art museums as places for worship or contemplation — in the vein of cathedrals or pilgrimage sites — and artworks as objects of faith, her recent works, such as Deposit III (2015), give more importance to painting as an actual object in its own right: «It allowed me to leave bi-dimensionality, unhang [painting] from the wall and naturally add other supports of images (video, mirrors, printed matter, found paintings) and link them to a same genealogy.»

Organised in conjunction with The British Museum, the exhibition invites its audience to witness the Islamic pilgrimage of Hajj, which has been taking place for 1350 years in Mecca.

The desert city in Nevada, which has become such a place of pilgrimage for gamblers, is the ultimate distillation of the capitalist drive, of the risk - all mentality, and of the oft - fatal lure of the ever - imminent win which pushes the punter further towards the precipice.

This gallery also features a solo exhibition for the annual winner of the Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage Artist of the Year competition, which takes place in April in conjunction with the Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage at Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Artist Anthony Gormley said: «The Hepworth Wakefield will become a place of pilgrimage for all lovers of sculpture and, with the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds and Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, Yorkshire will be a place of inspiration for all.»

«The Hepworth Wakefield will become a place of pilgrimage for all lovers of sculpture and now with the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds and Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, Yorkshire will be a place of inspiration for all.»

It will explore the «parallels between spiritual and urban cultures in Saudi Arabia and Utah; and especially the symbolism of creativity that connects cities of pilgrimage in both places.»