Pilgrimage Links

Pilgrim's Way

  • www.friendlypilgrim.com
    A Quaker Pilgrimage web page with a good reading list, pilgrimage workshops and universal notes on pilgrimage. It contains some valued thoughts on spiritual pilgrimage.
  • www.aidan.org.uk
    This is the website of the Community of Aiden and Hilda with information about retreats at the Open Gate on Lindisfarne island (Holy Island) in northern England.
  • www.placesofpilgrimage.pilgrimsall.org
    This website has more than 300 pilgrimage photographs on five themes: earth, air, fire, water and pilgrimage places. Also included are pilgrimage prayers and links to other related websites.

  • www.franciscanpilgrimages.com
    Maintained by the Franciscan Friars of the Roman Catholic Assumption BVM Province, this website offers a broad range of study and leadership pilgrimages to Assisi, Rome and the Holy Land.

  • www.iona.org.uk
    This website is maintained by the Iona Community, an active ecumenical pilgrimage center, located at the restored Iona Abby in western Scotland.

  • www.stgeorgescollegejerusalem.org
    This official website of St. George's College (Anglican) in Jerusalem has offered since 1962 short- term and long-term courses on the teaching and land of the Holy One, Jesus.

  • www.taize.fr
    This is the official website of the international, ecumenical community of brothers at Taize, France. It is a place of pilgrimage for thousands of young adults from many countries around the world.

  • www.inathos.gr
    Mount Athos, the Holy Mount, is the center of Eastern Orthodox monasticism with its 20 monasteries. It is the only place in Greece completely dedicated to the worship and prayer of God. Samples of prayer chant are included on this website.

  • www.umbria.org/assisi
    This site provides information on all of the churches of Assisi, including the Basilica of St. Francis and the Basilica of St. Clair, as well as the history and traditions of Assisi.

  • www.croagh-patrick.com
    The Holy Mountain in western Ireland is both an ancient and modern place of pilgrimage and is the mountain on which St. Patrick fasted for 40 days and nights in 441CE. Thousands of pilgrims climb the mountain every year.

  • www.touregypt.net/featurestories/catherines2.htm
    Located at the foot of Mount Moses in the Sinai wilderness of Egypt is the Greek Orthodox monastery of St. Catherine, built in the mid 500s CE. The famous icons of St. Catherine's date back to the sixth century.
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Last updated: October 3, 2006