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<blockquote data-quote="Ixal" data-source="post: 8639528" data-attributes="member: 7030132"><p>In the US maybe, but in other countries travelling is much more common.</p><p>Also, don't forget that you can't really compare todays society. Religious pilgrimages were much more important in the past, even when they were only performed to go on sort of a holiday.</p><p></p><p>Many professions had to travel, either regularly like merchants, envoys, nobles or mercenaries, or occasionally like priests needing to be blessed by higher priests, ect.</p><p>In central Europe it was law that most craftsmen had to travel around for 2-3 years to collect experiences before they can become a master (a tradition still alive today, but not required by law anymore). That why the term journeymen has the word journey in it.</p><p>If a pilgrimage site was "nearby" (which does not have to mean within 50 miles) people travelled there close to annually for special events (marriages, births, ect.). And yes, long range pilgrimages were also undertaken by all kinds of people and not only the rich elite as least once in their life. For Muslims the pilgrimage to Mecca is one of their pillars and every muslim is supposed to do it once. Which is why the roads and infrastructure there were created to handle thousands of pilgrims.</p><p>Christians too had big pilgrimage destinations, not only Jerusalem but also Santiago and Rome which were frequented often enough for pilgrimage to be a economic factor in those areas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ixal, post: 8639528, member: 7030132"] In the US maybe, but in other countries travelling is much more common. Also, don't forget that you can't really compare todays society. Religious pilgrimages were much more important in the past, even when they were only performed to go on sort of a holiday. Many professions had to travel, either regularly like merchants, envoys, nobles or mercenaries, or occasionally like priests needing to be blessed by higher priests, ect. In central Europe it was law that most craftsmen had to travel around for 2-3 years to collect experiences before they can become a master (a tradition still alive today, but not required by law anymore). That why the term journeymen has the word journey in it. If a pilgrimage site was "nearby" (which does not have to mean within 50 miles) people travelled there close to annually for special events (marriages, births, ect.). And yes, long range pilgrimages were also undertaken by all kinds of people and not only the rich elite as least once in their life. For Muslims the pilgrimage to Mecca is one of their pillars and every muslim is supposed to do it once. Which is why the roads and infrastructure there were created to handle thousands of pilgrims. Christians too had big pilgrimage destinations, not only Jerusalem but also Santiago and Rome which were frequented often enough for pilgrimage to be a economic factor in those areas. [/QUOTE]
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