Stories & Legends
Egeria: The First Pilgrim Writer
A fourth-century woman whose detailed letters from the Holy Land provide the earliest surviving first-person account of Christian pilgrimage.
Helena and the True Cross: A Pilgrimage Story
How the mother of Emperor Constantine traveled to the Holy Land in the fourth century and shaped the geography of Christian pilgrimage for all time.
Ibn Battuta: The Pilgrim Traveler
How a young Moroccan scholar's Hajj journey in 1325 became one of the greatest travel narratives in human history. In June 1325, a twenty-one-year-old.
Kōbō Daishi and the Shikoku Circuit — Pilgrim Guide
The life and legacy of Kūkai, the monk who founded Shingon Buddhism in Japan and whose spirit is believed to accompany every pilgrim on the Shikoku 88...
The Legend of Saint James: A Pilgrimage Story
The traditional narrative surrounding the apostle James and the origins of the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage. James the son of Zebedee appears in the.
Margery Kempe: The Medieval Pilgrim
An English laywoman whose dramatic pilgrimages and mystical experiences produced the first autobiography in the English language.
Rabbi Nachman's Journey to Israel
How the founder of Breslov Hasidism undertook a perilous pilgrimage to the Land of Israel in 1798 that shaped his teachings and his movement.
Xuanzang: The Buddhist Pilgrim
A seventh-century Chinese monk whose seventeen-year journey to India in search of Buddhist scriptures became one of history's great pilgrimage narratives.