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Pilgrim, W. Oct 18, 2016. J. Canning and J. Harnum interviewing Wesley Pilgrim, Main Brook.
No full textWes Pilgrim talks to Wooden Boat Museum researchers about building wooden boats; motorboats; speedboats; boat design; boat building materials and techniques; fishing; fishing gear; nautical superstitions; and life in Main Brook
The water resources structures on the Syrian and Egyptian pilgrim routes to Makka and Medinah
No full textAI-Hajj in Arabic means the pilgrimage to MAKKA. This was
an ancient rite which was recognised a long time before the
rise of Islam. According to the holy Quran and Islamic
tradi tion, AI-Haj j goes back to the time of the prophet
Ibrahim. Thus MAKKA was a focus for worship but it was also
a commercial centre and a way station/stopping place on the
ancient trade caravan road between south western -Arabia and
Bilad AI-Sham,' now Syria. In part the inhabitants of MAKKA
practised this trade because their environment was not
suitable for other alternative economic activities.
The importance of MAKKA, as a ritual place increased after
the rise of Islam because it became Qibla-Kiblah -
the direction to which muslims turn in praying towards AIKa'aba.
Yathrib - later to become Medinah - is the second holy city.
In fact it was not a ritual place, but like MAKKA it was a
stopping place on the ancient trade caravan road. The
inhabitants of Medinah practised agriculture because their
environment was more suitable than that at MAKKA; water was
available and the land was fertile so that in addition to
trade, they also practised agriculture.
The importance of Medinah as a holy place only developed
after AI-Hijra - the immigration of the prophet Mohammad,
peace be upon him, to it and his establishing of Islam at
that site. Medinah became the capital of the Islamic state
both religiously and politically. Islam then spread from
Medinah over the Arabian Peninsular to the world beyond.
The consequence of the conquest of Iraq, Bilad AI-Sham,
Egypt, the north coast of Africa and Persia was that the
majority of the population of these countries accepted and
adopted Islam as their religious faith. As a result of this
the populations of these countries came annually to make AlHajj and in doing so developed several additional pilgrim
caravan routes. However, it is the Syrian and Egyptian
pilgrim routes - Tareeq AI-Hajj AI-Shami and Wal Masri which
are the objects of this work. In both these cases the
pilgrim caravan routes were previously ancient trade caravan
routes which travelled through Arabia, particularly through
the western province of Al Hijaz.
The geographical location of Arabia, the cross roads of
three continents, Asia, Africa, and Europe, made important
the pre-Islamic routes which ran through it. Of course the
function of this network at that time was commercial but
after the rise of Islam the function of this network of
routes became to transport the pilgrims. The geological and
topographical features, as well as climatic conditions, in
Arabia played a great role in determining the ancient routes
in Arabia. The availability of water was a very important
consideration on these routes and was influenced by
environmental conditions. Since the rainfall is
insufficient, the resulting absence or shortage of water on
the pilgrim caravan routes made the caliphs pay great
concern to providing the pilgrim routes with the most
essential facilities, particularly water supplies and
storage. Ever since the earliest Islamic times, they
provided for the travellers Al birak, water tanks; Ahwadh cisterns; Qanawat - channels; and abyar - wells, in order to
make AI-Hajj journey more comfortable. The pilgrim caravans
in general, and the Syrian and Egyptian pilgrim caravan
routes in particular, passed through several stages of
development since their origin in early Islamic times and
these evolutionary stages can be seen until the beginning of
this century. Because the object of this thesis is to
document the remains of the water resource structures, an
extensive survey and investigation has been completed on the
Syrian and Egyptian pilgrim caravan routes. The field work
has been conducted in Saudi Arabia, particularly in the
north western region where the Syrian and Egyptian pilgrim
routes cross the country. The field work mainly aimed at
ascertaining the location of all the way stations and their
names and surveying each station in order to record the
surviving remains of water resource structures. The field
work covered a large area of about 8, OOOkm transect and
extended from MACCA in the south through Medinah to the
North as far as Halat I Ammar on the north at the border
between Saudi Arabia and Jordan. From N.W. to S .Wit
stretched from Haql on the Gulf of AI-' Aqaba as far as
MAKKA. These routes consist of the major, or principal
caravan routes as well as a number of traverse routes which
allow travellers a choice of transit as well as connecting
routes. There are large way stations as well as small minor
way stations. As part of this dissertation, almost all the
stopping places have been identified and documented by mapping and photography
A pilgrim and a pantheist : Henryk Sienkiewicz in Athens
No full textArtykuł jest analizą epistolografii Henryka Sienkiewicza powstałą w trakcie jego pobytu w Grecji (w 1886 roku). Podstawową kategorią interpretacyjną jest figura pielgrzyma, która wykorzystana zostaje w dwóch modalnościach: (1) jako scalający i porządkujący projekt autobiograficzny i (2) jako opis konkretnej wędrówki do miejsca świętego (tu: Akropolu). W pierwszym wypadku podróż do Grecji będzie próbą powrotu do siebie samego z okresu studiów filologicznych; w drugim - odprawieniem prywatnego rytuału na ruinach świątyń. Drugi aspekt zostanie poddany wnikliwej analizie pod kątem: (a) wrażeń, (b) wyobrażeń i (c) wyjaśnień, które uruchamia pobyt na Akropolu. W wyniku dociekań stwierdzona zostaje u Sienkiewicza postawa estetycznego panteizmu, która uzyskuje zabarwienie stoickie. W konkluzjach wskazana zostaje różnica między tym stanowiskiem a doświadczeniem ściśle religijnym, które podlega tu wyraźnemu wyparciu.The article is an analysis of Henryk Sienkiewicz's epistolography written during his stay in Greece (in 1886). The basic interpretive category is the figure of the pilgrim, which is used in two modalities: (1) as a unifying and organizing autobiographical project and (2) as a description of a specific journey to a sacred place (here: the Acropolis). In the first case, the trip to Greece will be an attempt to return to the self from the period of philological studies; in the second one - to perform a private ritual on the ruins of ancient temples. The second aspect will be analysed in depth in terms of: (a) impressions, (b) imaginings and (c) explanations that are triggered by a stay on the Acropolis. As a result of the inquiry, the presence of an attitude of aesthetic pantheism, which acquires a Stoic tinge, is established in Sienkiewicz. In the conclusion, the difference between this stance and a strictly religious experience is indicated, which is subject here to a clear suppression
Pilgrim 150433
No full textThe "Pilgrim" was built in 1888 at Saugatuck, Michigan for the Roger and Bird Line that ran from Chicago to Saugatuck and Lake Michigan ports. She was 299 gross tons -119 by 23.2 by 9.2. In 1892/1893, the "Pilgrim" was sold to John S. Thompson of St. Clair, Michigan. From 1900 to 1907, the "Pilgrim" was owned by C. W. Thompson of St. Clair. She sprang a leak April 29, 1907 and was beached at the summer resort near Fort Gratiot, Port Huron. The machinery and boilers were removed
History of the Puritans in England, and The Pilgrim fathers.
No full textAdded t.-p., engraved.Binding signed: JL.Stowell, W. H. The Puritans in England.--Wilson, Daniel. The Pilgrim fathers.Mode of access: Internet
Letter by Pilgrim regarding article, "Echocardiography screening for rheumatic heart disease in Ugandan schoolchildren"
No full textFrom tourist to pilgrim – theological and pastoral challenges
No full textArtykuł przedstawia analizę wyzwań związanych z tożsamością pielgrzyma chrześcijańskiego w obliczu dynamicznego rozwoju turystyki religijnej. Inflacja semantyczna określająca mianem pielgrzyma każdego wędrowca oznacza nową konfigurację działań duszpasterskich, zwłaszcza sposoby radzenia sobie z konsumpcjonizmem sacrum, jaki wiele osób dostrzega. W kontekście obserwacji Zygmunta Baumana o przekształceniu pielgrzyma w turystę, artykuł proponuje refleksję odwrotną: W jaki sposób turysta staje się pielgrzymem w realiach współczesnych szlaków pielgrzymkowych? Za punkt odniesienia wybrano Camino de Santiago i przeanalizowano aktualnie prowadzone działania duszpasterskie, zarówno w wymiarze instytucjonalnym, jak i indywidualnym.This article presents an analysis of the current challenges to the identity of the Christian pilgrim in the face of the dynamic growth of religious tourism. The semantic inflation that results in every wanderer being described as a pilgrim implies a new configuration of pastoral care, especially in terms of responding to the perceived “consumerism of the sacred.” In the context of Z. Bauman’s observations concerning the transformation of the pilgrim into the tourist, the article proposes a reverse type of reflection, that is, how the tourist can become a pilgrim in the reality of modern-day pilgrimage routes. The Camino de Santiago was chosen as the point of reference, and current pastoral activities – both institutional and individual – were analyzed
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