The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground

by Rosemary Mahoney

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The author explores the meaning and practice of religious pilgrimage as she recreates the Irish Catholic pilgrimage to Station Island, visits to holy sites in Israel, the Hindu pilgrimage to Varanasi, and a trip to Lourdes, among others.

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Rosemary Mahoney is the author of six books of nonfiction, including Down the Nile Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff. She was educated at Harvard College and Johns Hopkins University and was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a nomination for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Mahoney show more has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post Book World, and the New York Times Book Review. She lives in Rhode Island. show less

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Original publication date
2003
Epigraph
A whole popedom of forms one pulsation of virtue can uplift and vivify.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
address to divinity students, July 15, 1838
Dedication
To the memory of Margarita Baki
1963-2001
First words
On a Saturday morning at the end of May 1999 I left the town of Fakenham in Norfolk, England, and set off on the five-mile walk to the village of Walsingham.

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Nonfiction, Travel, Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
291.3ReligionOther religions[Formerly: General Religious Topics][formerly: Public worship and other practices. Relocated to 203]
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BL619 .P5 .M34Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionReligions. Mythology. RationalismReligions. Mythology. RationalismWorship. Cultus
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