The word "pilgrim" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person who has undertaken a journey to a holy place for religious reasons. For example: "Every year, thousands of pilgrims make the journey to Mecca for the Hajj, an Islamic pilgrimage."
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An unusual pilgrim this year was the head of one of Italy's main Muslim bodies, the League of Imams and Mosque Preachers: Mohamed Bahreddine said he appreciated his visit as a "voyage in time and history in which we saw the face of Jesus [as it appears] in the vision of our Christian brothers".
After reports of miracles the lame walking, the blind seeing the chapel cemented its place on the pilgrim map, with companion churches, a nunnery and the aforementioned basilica now radiating from the modest original structure.
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Charlemagne's remains were taken to a coal-mine for safekeeping.A pilgrim to Aachen, particularly the new incarnation of Charlemagne as a humble columnist, should not be too cynical.
Sorry, we won't re-elect him They're waiting for the big one On the trail Not really like anywhere else The Clinton revival Correction: job growth ReprintsTwo-thirds of its Spanish-speakers are descended from families who settled in the isolated northern tip of Spain's New World empire before the Pilgrim Fathers arrived on the east coast.
The Pilgrim Fathers hoped for an earthly paradise without the sin and selfishness of the Old World.
While values and ideals travelled across the Atlantic with the Pilgrim Fathers, goods were flowing across the Pacific: silver, silk, porcelain, spices, sandalwood, much of it beautifully crafted in China.
The first permanent English settlement, Jamestown, in Virginia, was 13 years old by the time the Pilgrim Fathers reached Massachusetts.Though Europe's tensions of religion eased, its Jews were still fleeing across the Atlantic in the 19th and 20th centuries.
By killing much of the population of the Wampanoag confederacy, the epidemic that raged from 1616-19 made possible the first permanent European settlement in north America, that of the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620.
