Tradition Magazine, Issue Three: Pilgrimage
Part Four: The Crusades
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William of Tyre on the Capture of the Holy City
William of Tyre (1130-1186) was one of the generations of Europeans who grew up in the new Kingdom of Jerusalem. William was born in Jerusalem and became a priest in the Church in the Holy Land, eventually rising to be Archbishop of Tyre, engaging in politics as an ambassador in his time. His “Chronicle of the Deeds Done Beyond the Sea” is one of our be…
An Impromptu Pilgrimage to Cyprus
About the Author: The Swiss Theologian Brother Felix Faber (1441-1502), often Felix Fabri, leaves us one of the most vivid and human accounts of pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Brother Felix speaks of the horrors of life in the hold of a pilgrim ship, as well as the terrors of the sea, things like the fish that “cannot be forced away from the ship save by …
Henry Maundrell on Pilgrims’ Tattoos
About the Author: Henry Maundrell was an academic and later ordained in the Church of England. In 1697 he found himself in Jerusalem, and kept a record in a diary which he published in England about five years later. As noted, the custom that pilgrims received a tattoo was alive and well even then, using methods similar to what is customary for pilgrims…