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The singular pilgrim : travels on sacred ground
- Title
- The singular pilgrim : travels on sacred ground / Rosemary Mahoney.
- Author
- Mahoney, Rosemary.
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
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Details
- Description
- 404, [2] pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- "The Singular Pilgrim is a riveting account of one woman's personal quest to find the root of belief among modern religious pilgrims. The intrepid Rosemary Mahoney undertakes six extraordinary journeys: visiting an Anglican shrine to Saint Mary in Walsingham, England; walking the five-hundred-mile Camino de Santiago in northern Spain; braving the icy bathwater at Lourdes; rowing alone across the Sea of Galilee to spend a night camped below the Golan Heights; viewing Varanasi, India’s holiest city, from a rubber raft on the Ganges; soldiering barefoot through the three-day penitential Catholic pilgrimage on Ireland’s Station Island. A fiercely observant traveler and an insightful writer, Mahoney offers a witty and provocative chronicle of her adventures."--Back cover.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]).
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. Walsingham -- 2, Lourdes -- 3. El Camino de Santiago -- 4. Varanasi -- 5. The Holy Land -- g 6. Saint Patrick's Purgatory. -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments.
- ISBN
- 0618022627
- 9780618022625
- 0618446656
- 9780618446650
- LCCN
- 2002192151
- OCLC
- ocm51210458
- 51210458
- SCSB-1284718
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library