Sentence examples for undertake a pilgrimage from inspiring English sources

This was at the height of the Spanish Inquisition and Vesalius was pardoned only on the condition that he undertake a pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

The latter statement may imply that Ragnall undertook (or planned to undertake) a pilgrimage or crusade.

And yet it was to receive the necessary counsel directly from "God's House" that in 1496 Muḥammad undertook a pilgrimage to Mecca.

During Kim Jong-il's state visit to China in September 2010 he detoured to Jilin, undertaking a pilgrimage to his father's school.

Before returning to France, Clemenceau undertook a pilgrimage to the places where French soldiers had fought in the battle for American independence.

In the year before the current intifada began, I undertook a pilgrimage of religious empathy to my Muslim neighbors, visiting mosques in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel.

We learn about the extravagance and gold obsession of Mansa Musa, a 14th-century emperor in Mali who dazzled the Arab world when he undertook a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324.

In 1058 he undertook a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, the first bishop from England to do so.

Emperor Akbar Prithviraj Kapoorr), who does not have a male heir, undertakes a pilgrimage to a shrine to pray that his wife Jodhabai (Durga Khote) give birth to a son.

The idea of undertaking a pilgrimage to Jerusalem was not new in England, however, as the idea of religiously justified warfare went back to Anglo-Saxon times.

On the other hand, it is not impossible that Lagmann originally undertook a pilgrimage before catching wind of the crusade en route.