Category: Pilgrimages that made their mark
Domenico Laffi and his ‘Travel in the West to Saint James of Galicia and Finisterre’ (1673)
Domenico Laffi was an Italian clergyman originally from the 17th century city of Bologna, a...
Margery Kempe, pilgrim to Santiago in 1417
In 1934 the manuscript of the biographical stories of Margery Kempe (1373-1438) was discovered...
Saint Helena: Empress, traveller and pilgrim to the Holy Land
History has too often been written by and about men. For centuries, authors of all kinds and...
