Words similar to pilgrimage

Example sentences for: pilgrimage

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

Behind him is Padua’s great site of pilgrimage, the 13th- and 14th-century Basilica of Sant’Antonio, the city’s protector simply known as II Santo, built in honor of the Portuguese-born Franciscan monk who died in Padua in 1231.
Beyond Braga is one of the north’s most frequently photographed sights, the 18th-century pilgrimage church of Bom Jesus do Monte, situated in the mountains 4 km (2 miles) east of Braga.
Some penitents still heroically climb the 600-plus steps on their knees, especially during the great annual pilgrimage on 8 September.
If patriots make a reverent pilgrimage to Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame (just off Lakeshore Boulevard West at Exhibition Place) to salute heroic athletes of the past, the separate Hockey Hall of Fame provides a tonic lesson for American visitors to recall, among the trophies, masks, skates, and hockey sticks, the fact that nearly all their ice hockey heroes are Canadian-born.
On 15 August, thousands of locals make the annual pilgrimage to the church.