Pilgrimage report

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A historical pilgrimage report, a page from Bernhard von Breydenbach's travel book Sanctae Peregrinationes , printed in Mainz in 1486; the illustration by Erhard Reuwich shows the late medieval tour group

A pilgrim report is in church history parlance a travelogue of a pilgrim , one in the Holy Land -traveled. Such pilgrims often left detailed records of their itinerary and the holy places they visited. In part, were churches and other buildings, but also services , described rites and customs, who witnessed the pilgrims in the travel reports in detail.

  • The pilgrimage reports allow an approximate dating, sometimes also the identification of Christian and other buildings still existing or discovered during excavations in the Holy Land and, by comparing reports from different times, give insight into the building history and the chronological sequence of several buildings at the same place.
  • Examples are the records of the Consecrated Virgin Egeria from the late 4th century and the Pilgrim from Piacenza from the 6th century .
  • A special case is the pilgrimage in the spirit . The most famous text created in this context is the German-language writing of the Ulm Dominican Felix Fabri Die Sionspilger , a summary of his pilgrimage report to the Holy Land. This pilgrimage report from the 15th century should enable Swabian Dominican women to understand the pilgrimage in their homeland. The work was reissued in 1999 by Wieland Carls.
  • The pilgrim's report acquired particular significance in which the founder of the Jesuits , St. Ignatius of Loyola , describes his spiritual journey, which begins with a pilgrimage to the holy places.
  • In a broad sense, Hape Kerkeling's book about his Santiago pilgrimage “ I'll be gone ” can also be considered a pilgrimage.

literature

  • Andreas Klußmann: In God's name we drive. The late medieval pilgrimage reports by Felix Fabri, Bernhard von Breydenbach and Konrad Grünemberg in comparison. universaar, Saarbrücken 2012, ISBN 978-3862230761 .

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