Sentence examples for arduous pilgrimage from inspiring English sources

Trapped in her hospice bed, wandering only in her mind, her arduous pilgrimage consists of writing words.

Many saints are worshiped by Jews and Muslims alike and their tombs are magnets for ardent, sometimes arduous pilgrimage.

The third status was to be won by the church only after arduous pilgrimage and great tribulation, like the Israelites marching through the wilderness and crossing the Jordan River into the Promised Land.

When Iran's leading dissident, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, was exiled to the desert by the shah 25 years ago, 30,000 followers made the arduous pilgrimage to visit him.

A dog-legged trail leads you around a series of sites in the city, then takes you, in a last arduous pilgrimage, to the summit of the South Downs.

Worshipers take an arduous pilgrimage on foot through jungles to fulfill their vows to the deity.

Since then, every four years, the islanders have repeated the Virgin's arduous 18-mile pilgrimage – the Bajada de la Virgen de los Reyes (Descent of the Virgin of the Kings) – accompanied by music, costume, much solemnity and celebration.

Andrew Kayinga, 15, had polio as a baby, which affected his legs and made it a slow and arduous five kilometre pilgrimage to the Salima Aids Support Organisation until SASO organised transport for him.

Up until the 1940s a majority of the pilgrims were Tamil Hindus from Sri Lanka and South India who undertook an arduous padayatra or "pilgrimage on foot".

LONDON, June 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Millions of Muslims each year make the arduous and exhausting haj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, but for one filmmaker, it was a journey that could have cost him his life.

I have come to follow in their footsteps, but with a different purpose: mine is to be no arduous spiritual odyssey, instead a pilgrimage devoted to the pleasures of the northern Spanish kitchen and of the terrain from which its dishes originate.