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The great St Bernard of Clairvaux saw pilgrimage as an excuse for ‘gadding about’ and in a letter commended a form of pilgrimage which could be found on one’s own doorstep—there was not always benefit in seeing pilgrimage as something to take us abroad or to the great pilgrimage centres of Rome, Compostela or Jerusalem. Cathedrals today see part of their ministry as encouraging the spiritual significance of pilgrimage—on their own doorsteps, and using their own considerable resources. Pilgrimage is no longer something that happened in the days of Chaucer, but an activity which has real significance for the Church today and is rightly used as a tool for mission and ministry.
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Tavinor, M. (2020). Pilgrimage and Cathedrals Today. In: Dyas, D., Jenkins, J. (eds) Pilgrimage and England's Cathedrals. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48032-5_12
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