My article, "Journey or Destination? Rethinking Pilgrimage in the Western Tradition" is now online (Open Access). Delighted it has been chosen for the front cover of the @Religions_MDPI Special Issue, "Pilgrimage and Religious Mobilization in the World"! https://t.co/IaArgib4ij

In this 15th century miniature, Saint Nicholas appears in the midst of a raging sea to save sailors from shipwreck.​ The bishop saint, with mitre and crozier, rises from the waves and blesses the storm-tossed ship, a visual echo of the famous legend where he rescues a crew in

6 Dec: St Nicholas (d 343) of Myra/#Demre #Turkey. Led to Santa!🎅Performer of miracles including putting gifts🎁in children's shoes👟! Story he gave lots of money to a devout man who could not afford proper dowries for his 3 daughters. 🪦Newtown Jerpoint, Kilkenny, 800 years ago

'Sainte Nicholaes, Godes druð, tymbre us faire scone hus...' Today is the feast of St Nicholas. This beautiful hymn to St Nicholas is one of the oldest songs surviving in English, composed by Godric of Finchale in the 12th century https://t.co/bdt7VSQ7NG https://t.co/lCM5IPGWlo

It's the 7th day of Advent! For today's #AdventPilgrimage I'm recalling the days I spent with the Arundel & Brighton Diocese pilgrims who were marking the 50th anniversary of their annual pilgrimage, walking from Horley to Eastbourne during what were the hottest days of the year!

Francigena Britannica recognised as part of historic pilgrimage route https://t.co/oAnWGx9Fbl via @icn_uk

For this week's #FontsonFriday: the unusual font @Nrw_Cathedral that began life as a chocolate-making vessel! [📷December 2024]

It's time for my sixth #AdventPilgrimage, this one to the ruins of Llanthony Priory in Wales, still - as described by Gerald of Wales in the 12th century - situated "in a wilderness far removed from the bustle of mankind."

New Kent Pilgrimage Routes Help Revive the Catholic England of Chaucer| National Catholic Register

And now online!

Trondelag: woman's burial of 9th C w brooches, shells, small bones from bird wings, several pieces of jewelry, may have been part of her clothing. Shells, a symbol of "pilgrimage" Shrine of the apostle St. James the Great in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Another of 8th C nearby.

My 5th #AdventPilgrimage destination is a secular one: the Angel of the North in Gateshead, a 20-metre tall sculpture by Antony Gormley (1998). It is the site of many informal shrines created by pilgrims wishing their loved ones to be remembered beneath the angel's wings.

Yesterday's Dorothy Whitelock Lecture @SPC_Oxford given by Professor Jane Roberts (University of London): ‘Guthlac: what the early medieval records tell us’.

Pleased to share my latest short Pilgrimage video! It captures highlights from this summer's national Jubilee Pilgrimage of Hope as I join the St Matthew's Way pilgrims walking from Cardiff to Nottingham! 👣 https://t.co/haBE3do3ff

A pilgrimage on wheels: Kazakh man cycles 8,000 km to Medina "Along the way, people offered him water, food, and support — from simple gestures to truly meaningful acts." https://t.co/yvnaxMfb4L

How a 500-Year-Old Bible Map Accidentally Helped Shape the Modern Idea of Territorial Borders “The combination of guide and map offered the viewer a way to conduct a vicarious pilgrimage to the Holy Land through text and image." https://t.co/uqPI2hBtog

Interested in studying medieval women with me and living within commuting distance of Oxford? Then I've just the course for you, beginning 20 January! For further information and to sign up: https://t.co/8evsqVrCyz

My fourth #AdventPilgrimage revisits the rather wonderful Anchor Church near Ingleby (Derbyshire), a series of caves thought to have been the hermitage (or anchorhold, hence the name) of St Hardulph in the 8th or 9th century.

Bon dia! A while ago I mentioned I was planning a career change next year, setting up a guided walking business. For anyone who might be interested, the first part of that, exploring pilgrim routes in the UK, Spain and Mexico is now online: https://t.co/JP6oRmUlBF.

Who was St Birinus and why is he called the Apostle to the West Saxons? https://t.co/m3YSe4aayj #ChristianToday

For my third #AdventPilgrimage I take you to St Cybi’s Well, Llangybi (Wales), visited in the late summer. Cybi was a 6th-century saint.