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Beligious Pilgrimages.The animadversions indulged in by cer-ยป lain jouriinis, concerning t.bo recently or-o j gani/.cd pilgrimage to Europe for religious purposes, by a number of our Roman Catholic citizens, appeartobe bane I upon a wide misconception of the plan and objects of the under taking. Especially is this true so far as relates to the charge that such an excursion is really a revival of the superstitious as well as fanatical and disastrous pilgrimages which characterized tin* middleages, and should, therefore, from everyconsideration, be discountenanced.The comparison, or analogy, however, thus attempted lobe drawn, is certainly very wide ot the mark. The pilgrimages of the middle aces were not. like that just undertaken, free and joyous occasions in the interests of health, information, pleasure and religious friendship, but, on the contrary, were eit her journeys of penance nr devotion Uv unbalanced zealots to for-
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St Louis Republican
St Louis, Missouri, US
Sun, Jun 07, 1874
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