Description
Book SynopsisAn unsurpassable, visual tour of the greatest pilgrimage sites of Europe, from North to South; East to West.
Pilgrimage in Europe is currently thriving on a scale that simply could not have been envisaged just a few decades ago. Not only are greater numbers of people now emulating the medieval pilgrims who made their way on foot across Europe to the shrines of martyred apostles in Rome (SS Peter and Paul), Santiago de Compostela (St James) and Trondheim (St Olav), but international religious tourism is also thriving and millions each year are now travelling by air, rail and road to Europe’s major pilgrimage churches and famous sites of Marian Apparition such as Lourdes (France) and Fatima (Portugal).
This book covers those key pilgrimage sites as well as many lesser known ones such as the Marian Sanctuary of La Salette in the French Alps, the cave sanctuary of Covadonga in Northern Spain, the maje
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
ENGLAND HOLY ISLAND
ELY
WALSINGHAM
CANTERBURY FRANCE LISIEUX
CHARTRES
LE PUY-EN-VELAY
LA SALETTE
LOURDES DENMARK, NORWAY AND SWEDEN RIBE
ODENSE
FANEFJORD & ELMELUNDE
TRONDHEIM
RINGEBU
VADSTENA POLAND AND SLOVAKIA CZĘSTOCHOWA
LICHEŃ STARY
ŠAŠTÍN-STRÁŽE GERMANY, AUSTRIA AND SWITZERLAND COLOGNE
AACHEN
ALTÖTTING
MARIAZELL
EINSIEDELN ITALY PADUA
ASSISI
ROME
LORETO SPAIN AND PORTUGAL SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA 2
COVADONGA
ZARAGOZA
MONTSERRAT
EL ROCIO
FÁTIMA INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
