Word: pilgrimate
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...wait until he was 21-or longer, if he happened to be pale-complexioned. Those stalwarts who managed to abstain until they were 27 were to be paid homage at a public gathering, where hymns were sung in their honor. In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the voyager Christian can reach the Celestial City-which 17th century artists sometimes pictured as a snugly fortified medieval town-only by conquering the fleshly temptations celebrated by today's turned-on idealists. Sidestepping sleepy-eyed Sloth and Presumption, Christian gains Utopia, or Paradise, by following the directions...
...band of dedicated followers, who were officially recognized by the Vatican in 1950 as a new religious community. In 1952, the Missionaries of Charity -dressed in simple white, blue-bordered saris-won permission from Calcutta's authorities to set up a home for the dying destitute in a pilgrim hostel at the gate of a temple of Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction...
...Pilgrim Press, 750 pages...
...Pilgrim congregational church structure-like that of the Massachusetts Bay Puritans-was democratic, a tradition carried into New England's history. Moreover, the Plymouth settlers preserved not only the fundamental rights of Englishmen-among them, trial by jury and due process-but gave legal protection to Indians. They did not hesitate to execute two fellow Pilgrims for killing an Indian...
...thing that the original Pilgrim congregation did not preserve intact was its orthodox Separatist faith. At the beginning of the 19th century, the congregation of the First Church of Plymouth split over belief in the Trinity, and took a vote. The losers would leave the congregation. The Unitarians won the election, but lost their church to fire a century later. The pastor of the trinitarian Church of the Pilgrimage across the street could not resist the opportunity to scoff a bit. "We kept the faith," said a sign he hung outside his church. "They kept the furniture...