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...Whitbread prizewinner Matthew Kneale’s Pilgrims (Atlantic RRP£16.99, June) follows a set of 13th-century penitents on their way to Rome, while Michael Arditti, one of the subtlest novelists on the subject...
...Tourist visas do not even exist, though religious pilgrims and those coming for business or education can apply for visas....
...Like a fallen Pilgrim Father, he helped trigger the US’s conversion to the promised land of dance music in the 2000s....
...Buying guide ● Southampton airport is 20 minutes’ drive from Winchester ● The fastest trains from Winchester to London Waterloo take about an hour ● Local prep schools include Pilgrims’, Twyford, Farleigh...
...“At a breath’s distance and sometimes pressed in among the oceans of pilgrims, I wanted to look into their eyes, share their wonder and awe . . . and belief of an eternal life,” he says....
...Pilgrims and tourists gathering in St Peter’s square expressed shock at the news, but also their hope that the Church would choose a younger and possibly non-European leader....
...“We may think now of St Catherine’s as a remote place isolated in the middle of the Sinai desert, but in medieval times it was a major destination for pilgrims from around the Christian world, who would...
...It is also why Justin Lin, the World Bank’s chief economist, says small local banks should be the backbone of emerging economies’ financial systems. Then there is geography....
...Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World, by Nick Bunker, Bodley Head RRP£25 The mythologised vision of the Pilgrim Fathers we have today – their black hats, their lace collars,...
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