Example sentences for: pilgrimage

How can you use “pilgrimage” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • While the Aztecs were celebrating the birth of Huitzilopochtli, the priests reenacted the pilgrimage of Mary and Joseph.

  • It’s a lovely 3 km- (2 mile-) stroll down from the Porta Nuova, and is a point of pilgrimage for those curious to see the wooden crucifix that spoke to a troubled 27-year-old Francis in 1209, telling him to go and repair the world.

  • At the Monasteri de Lluc, Mallorca’s most revered place of pilgrimage, foreign visitors are for once frequently outnumbered by locals.

  • Queen Helena, a devout Christian and the mother of Emperor Constantine the Great, made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 326 to identify the sites associated with Jesus’s life.

  • This isolated spot is a significant pilgrimage place, and can be seen for miles around.


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