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Module 11 Gothic Art & the Importance of Pilgrimage

Module 11 Gothic Art & the Importance of Pilgrimage

Q Using the Internet, the module material, and other texts discuss the importance of pilgrimage in the construction and function of Gothic churches? Can you find some unique relics that are housed in Gothic churches? What is a medieval pilgrimage? Is this still practiced today? Can you think of modern day religious and/or secular "pilgrimages"? There is no question that pilgrimage provoked the construction of larger churches and inspired the Romanesque and Gothic basilica designs. The pilgrims undertaking their journeys to sacred sites in order to visit holy things would often sleep inside the basilicas.

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The Medieval Pilgrimage was the pilgrimages that people of the Middle Ages took as encouraged by the Churches with the intention of asking forgiveness for the sins and find an opportunity to unite with God in heaven. An important part of the pilgrimage was the homage to the relics, which were all that remained of saints, teeth or bones or things that belonged to them. These journeys were tedious and long, but for the sake of religious unification and forgiveness, they would travel to the holy shrines.