Word: pilgrimate
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...ancient city of Kandy, newly elected Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake last week donned the traditional white robes of a pilgrim. Then he entered the Temple of the Tooth to worship the miraculous tooth* of the Lord Buddha, which is encased in the innermost of seven gold caskets. That afternoon Senanayake spoke to a huge crowd gathered before the temple. He reminded them that he had inaugurated his election campaign last January by another visit to the temple. "With the blessings of the tooth and the people's encouragement, we have carried out the struggle successfully," said Senanayake...
...last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. The first Christian church was one that looked forward in strained and eager anticipation to the end days and the coming again of the Lord. The church of today looks back to the Pilgrim Fathers or to the founding of the First Church of Cedar Elms...
...fond, impossible dream of Pope Paul VI, that pioneer of papal travel, is that some day he may go somewhere as a "simple pilgrim." That was how he wanted to style his trip to Bombay last week to attend the 38th International Eucharistic Congress. He envisioned himself meeting and perhaps ministering to the poor, the hungry, the sick. Scorning to charter a plane, he simply bought a first-class ticket (fare...
...record of Jamestown has all the theatrical trappings of an achievement to be honored in a national holiday. Like the Pilgrims, the Virginia colonists barely survived their first years in the New World. Like the Pilgrims, they persevered. Against Miles Standish's bungled courtship of Priscilla Alden, the Jamestown legend can put the capture of John Smith by Powhatan and his rescue by Pocahontas. The counterpart of the Pilgrim's harvest feast in Virginia was the arrival of a relief expedition on June...
...leveling their gaze at material gain, the founders of Jamestown made themselves the truer precursors of modern American ideals. Thanksgiving, though reduced to an occasion for a square meal, still immortalizes the deeds of the Pilgrim Fathers. Surely the Pecuniary Fathers of Jamestown deserve to be enshrined in the nation's folklore with their own holiday...