They were preserved and ritualistically fed and honored, and paraded in rituals and ceremonial pilgrimages.
However, the grave remained undisturbed and was often the site of pilgrimages for those seeking mystical powers.
Pilgrimages were a popular religious practice and accumulating relics became important for ambitious institutions.
The pilgrimage of grace is neither pure analysis nor pure narrative.
People willingly took part in religious life: masses, indulgences and pilgrimages.
With no federal law, fast days became pilgrimages, processions, litanies and fasts.
They underpinned devotion to relics and images, fostered the widespread use (and misuse) of sacramentals, and buttressed the thriving tradition of pilgrimage to prominent shrines.
Even in the last year of pilgrimages, the vicar received 50 from his share of the offerings.
