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78-526: After his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1138, the bishop of Olomouc , Jindřich Zdík , took hold of the idea of founding a monastery of regular canons in Prague. He had the support of the bishops of Prague and Soběslav I, Duke of Bohemia and—after his death—Vladislav II. After Zdík's first unsuccessful attempt to found a Czech variant of the canons' order at the place called Strahov in 1140, an invitation

156-476: A large and multinational population. Pope Benedict XVI said, "It is a way sown with so many demonstrations of fervour, repentance, hospitality, art and culture which speak to us eloquently of the spiritual roots of the Old Continent." Many still follow its routes as a form of spiritual path or retreat for their spiritual growth. It is also popular with hikers, cyclers, and organized tour groups. In 1987,

234-834: A major Christian pilgrimage site since the Middle Ages. Pilgrimages to Rome can involve visits to a large number of sites, both within the Vatican City and in Italian territory. A popular stopping point is the Pilate's stairs : these are, according to the Christian tradition, the steps that led up to the praetorium of Pontius Pilate in Jerusalem , which Jesus Christ stood on during his Passion on his way to trial. The stairs were, reputedly, brought to Rome by St. Helena in

312-454: A new technical network constructed, the Strahov picture gallery newly built, and the Strahov library renewed. Other architectural restorations were also carried out. 50°05′10″N 14°23′24″E  /  50.086°N 14.390°E  / 50.086; 14.390 Christian pilgrimage#Holy Land Christianity has a strong tradition of pilgrimages , both to sites relevant to

390-693: A pilgrimage to Cartago on 2 August to make requests and give thanks to the Virgen de los Ángeles (the Lady of the Angels), nicknamed la Negrita due to the dark green color of the statue representing her; the statue located inside the Basilica of Our Lady of the Angels . People all over the country and even other Central American countries participate on foot or horseback. In 2009, due to AH1N1 spreading risks, it

468-600: A special depository. In 1779 Václav Mayer occupied the abbot's throne and was the last to carry out great building activities. His most outstanding work was the building of the new library, now in Classical style. Today it is called the Philosophical Hall ( Filosofický sál ). This work brought the extensive building activity at Strahov Monastery to an end and the following generations of abbots devoted their attention merely to minor architectural repairs, all under

546-590: Is 1,018 metres (3,340 ft). The Vltava River drains an area of 28,089.9 square kilometres (10,845.6 sq mi) in size, over half of Bohemia and about a third of the Czech Republic's entire territory. The waters ultimately drain to the North Sea. As it runs through Prague, the river is crossed by 18 bridges (including the Charles Bridge ) and covers 31 kilometres (19 mi) within

624-503: Is a musical description of the river's course through Bohemia. Smetana's symphonic poem also inspired a song of the same name by Bertolt Brecht . An English version of it, by John Willett , features the lyrics Deep down in the Moldau the pebbles are shifting / In Prague three dead emperors moulder away. The Vltava River has been used as the setting for a number of films, including the 1942 Czech drama The Great Dam . More recently,

702-632: Is attested for the first time in its Bohemian form, Wlitaua . The Vltava originates by a confluence of two rivers, the Teplá Vltava , which is longer, and the Studená Vltava , originating in Bavaria . From a water management point of view, the Vltava and Teplá Vltava are one river with single numbering of river kilometres . The Teplá Vltava originates in the territory of Kvilda in

780-650: Is commonly referred to as the "Czech national river". Both the Czech name Vltava and the German name Moldau are believed to originate from the old Germanic words * wilt ahwa 'wild water' (compare Latin aqua ). In the Annales Fuldenses (872 AD) it is called Fuldaha ; from 1113 AD it is attested as Wultha . In the Chronica Boemorum (1125 AD) it

858-675: Is considered of national tourist interest. The Romería de la Virgin de Navahonda , celebrated in spring in the Madrilenian municipality of Robledo de Chavela is representative of this tradition. There are also pilgrimages in the Canary Islands. An example is La Romería de Santiago Apostol , in Gáldar . Instead of focusing on Jesus, the floats usually praise the Virgin Mary with pictures and statues. According to believers,

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936-593: Is navigable by craft of up to 300 tonnes (300 long tons; 330 short tons) displacement, but such vessels cannot pass the dams at Orlík and Slapy , and are also restricted by a low bridge at Týn nad Vltavou . Work is planned to complete boat lifts , planned for but never completed, at the two dams, and to rebuild the bridge, in order for them to navigate throughout. Much smaller craft, of up to 3.5 tonnes (3.4 long tons; 3.9 short tons) displacement and under 3 metres (9.8 ft) beam and 3 metres (9.8 ft) air draft, can avoid these obstacles. Upstream of České Budějovice,

1014-631: Is the patroness saint of Brazil . Venerated in the Catholic Church, Our Lady Aparecida is represented by a small terracotta image of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception . Historical accounts state that the statue was originally found by three fishermen who miraculously caught many fish after invoking the Blessed Virgin Mary. The statue is currently housed in the Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida , located in

1092-552: Is the oldest surviving recount of a Christian pilgrimage to Jerusalem and chronicles his visit in 333 to 334. The pilgrimage tradition was established by Helena , the mother of Constantine the Great and encouraged by church fathers like Saint Jerome . Pilgrimages also began to be made to Rome and other sites associated with the Apostles , Saints and Christian martyrs , as well as to places where there have been apparitions of

1170-572: The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Saint Bernadette Soubirous on a total of eighteen occasions at Lourdes (Lorda in her local Occitan language). As a result, Lourdes became a major place of Roman Catholic pilgrimage and of miraculous healings . Today Lourdes receives up to 5,000,000 tourists every season. With about 270 hotels, Lourdes has the second greatest number of hotels per square kilometer in France after Paris . Some of

1248-688: The Bohemian Forest at an elevation of 1,174 m (3,852 ft), on the slope of the Černá hora mountain. Together with the Teplá Vltava, the Vltava is 431.3 kilometres (268.0 mi) long. Without the Teplá Vltava, the Vltava is 377.0 kilometres (234.3 mi) long. The river flows north across Bohemia, through Český Krumlov , České Budějovice and Prague . It merges with the Elbe River at Mělník at an elevation of 156 m (512 ft). The height difference from source to mouth

1326-584: The Camino , which encompasses several routes in Spain, France and Portugal, was declared the first Cultural Route of the Council of Europe . Since 2013, the Camino has attracted more than 200,000 pilgrims each year, with an annual growth rate of more than 10 percent. Pilgrims come mainly on foot and often from nearby cities, requiring several days of walking to reach Santiago. The French Way gathers two-thirds of

1404-678: The Guayllabamba River and uphill again to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Presentation of El Quinche, located at 2,680 m.a.s.l arriving at 6 a.m. Pope Francis visited El Quinche on 8 July 2015 and spoke to Roman Catholic clergy. El Cisne is a town in the southern region of Ecuador . Representatives of the city in 1594 requested sculptor Diego de Robles to build the statue of the Virgin of El Cisne which he carved from

1482-466: The Hussite Wars , the years of the reign of George of Poděbrady , and the time up to the end of the 16th century, Strahov was relatively moribund. Attempts were made by various officials to renew the original monastery and its religious life, but they were unsuccessful. It was not until the arrival of the abbot Jan Lohelius that a turn came about. This cleric, originally of Teplá Abbey , became

1560-470: The Iberian Peninsula and countries formerly colonized by Spain and Portugal . The term comes from romero / romeiro , meaning a person travelling to Rome . The travelling can be done in cars, floats, on horseback or on foot, and its destination is a sanctuary or hermitage consecrated to a religious figure honored in that day's feast. Besides attending religious services and processions ,

1638-766: The Jesuit Church of the Gesù and Sant'Ignazio . Traditionally, pilgrims in Rome visit the seven pilgrim churches ( Italian : Le sette chiese ) in 24 hours. This custom, mandatory for each pilgrim in the Middle Ages, was codified in the 16th century by Saint Philip Neri . The seven churches are the four major Basilicas ( St Peter in Vatican , St Paul outside the Walls , St John in Lateran and Santa Maria Maggiore ), while

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1716-539: The New Testament narrative (especially in the Holy Land ) and to sites associated with later saints or miracles . Christian pilgrimages were first made to sites connected with the birth , life, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus . Aside from the early example of Origen in the third century, surviving descriptions of Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land date from the 4th century, when pilgrimage

1794-639: The True Cross , the girdle of Mary, the arm of Saint Thomas and various relics of Saint Servatius ; in Aachen the nappy and loin cloth of Jesus, the dress of Mary, the decapitation cloth of John the Baptist , and the remains of Charlemagne ; and in Kornelimünster the loincloth, the sudarium and the shroud of Jesus, as well as the skull of Pope Cornelius . In Maastricht some relics were shown from

1872-660: The Virgin Mary . Pilgrimage to Rome became a common destination for pilgrims from throughout Western Christianity in the medieval period, and important sites were listed in travel-guides such as the 12th-century Mirabilia Urbis Romae . In the 7th century, the Holy Land fell to the Muslim conquests , and as pilgrimage to the Holy Land now became more difficult for European Christians, major pilgrimage sites developed in Western Europe, notably Santiago de Compostela in

1950-653: The apostles , saints and Christian martyrs , as well as to places where there have been apparitions of the Virgin Mary . A popular pilgrimage journey is along the Way of St. James to the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral , in Galicia , Spain, where the shrine of the apostle James is located. Also a combined pilgrimage is held every seven years in the three nearby towns of Maastricht , Aachen and Kornelimünster where many important relics could be seen (see: Pilgrimage of

2028-504: The dwarf gallery of St Servatius' Church to the pilgrims gathered in the square; in Aachen the same was done from the purpose-built tower gallery between the dome and the westwork tower of Aachen Cathedral . The popularity of the Maastricht-Aachen-Kornelimünster pilgrimage reached its zenith in the 15th century when up to 140,000 pilgrims visited these towns in mid-July. After a break of about 150 years,

2106-433: The 17th and early 18th centuries, other abbots continued in the reconstruction of the monastery. They also cared for the church, which was repaired and decorated several times during the given period. The monastery experienced other significant building activity, namely after the assaults of French and Bavarian troops in 1742, when Prague was bombarded and seriously damaged. The abbot then organized building efforts anew, in

2184-628: The 4th century. For centuries, the Scala Santa has attracted Christian pilgrims who wished to honour the Passion of Jesus. Several catacombs built in the Roman age are also the object of pilgrimage, where Christians prayed, buried their dead and performed worship during periods of persecution. And various national churches (among them San Luigi dei francesi and Santa Maria dell'Anima ), or churches associated with individual religious orders, such as

2262-585: The 9th century, though travelers such as Bernard the Pilgrim continued to make the journey to the Holy Land. Political relationships between the Muslim caliphates and the Christian kingdoms of Europe remained in a state of suspended truce, allowing the continuation of Christian pilgrimages into Muslim-controlled lands, at least in intervals; for example, the Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah ordered

2340-631: The Holy Land for Christian pilgrims during the 12th century, but Palestine was re-conquered by the Muslim Ayyubids by the end of the 13th century. Under the Ottoman Empire travel in Palestine was once again restricted and dangerous. Modern pilgrimages in the Holy Land may be said to have received an early impetus from the scholar Ernest Renan , whose twenty-four days in Palestine, recounted in his Vie de Jésus (published 1863) found

2418-522: The Holy Land, to the places associated with the Lord’s passion, death and resurrection. They go to Rome, the city of the martyrdom of Peter and Paul, and also to Compostela, which, associated with the memory of Saint James, has welcomed pilgrims from throughout the world who desire to strengthen their spirit with the Apostle’s witness of faith and love. Pilgrimages are made to Rome and other sites associated with

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2496-537: The Memorial of National Literature. In the course of the said archeological research the long since forgotten Romanesque form of the monastery was revealed and reconstructed in a sensitive way. After the fall of the communist regime in 1989, the monastery was returned to the Premonstratensian Order, which began to realize a costly reconstruction of the building. By 1994 the church had been restored,

2574-526: The Podolí plant under the stricter, second degree of pollution prevention regulations. Along its course, the river receives many tributaries. The longest tributaries of the Vltava are: Between the confluence with the Elbe at Mělník and Prague , the river is navigable by vessels of up to 1,000 tonnes (980 long tons; 1,100 short tons) displacement. Most of the river upstream of Prague as far as České Budějovice

2652-507: The Relics, Maastricht ). The motivations which draw today's visitors to Christian sacred sites can be mixed: faith-based, spiritual in a general way, with cultural interests, etc. This diversity has become an important factor in the management and pastoral care of Christian pilgrimage, as recent research on international sanctuaries and much-visited churches has shown. The first pilgrimages were made to sites connected with Jesus . Aside from

2730-548: The Virgin of Zapopan consists of a route 8 km in length, from the Guadalajara Cathedral to the Basilica of Our Lady of Zapopan . It is made every 12 October, and figure of the virgin goes accompanied by more than 3,000,000 people. Located 28 km east of the capital city, Quito , the pilgrimage takes place every 21 November at midnight. More than 800,000 pilgrims walk down a steep slope of 780 metres over

2808-537: The abbot of Strahov in 1586 and all his abilities were devoted to the renewal of Strahov. He tried to raise the spiritual life of the monastery and, as a visitator circarie of the Premonstratensian order as a whole in Bohemia , he also devoted attention to the material aspect of things. He reconstructed the church, renewed the abbey buildings, established workshops, built a new dormitory and refectory, and had

2886-514: The archbishop of Prague, his work at Strahov then being continued by the new abbot, Kašpar Questenberg. He continued in the expensive work started by Lohelius, completed the lower cloisters and prelature, and even erected a new building in the form of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, as well as adding out-buildings and a brewery. Furthermore, he founded the Norbertine seminary in the New Town , which

2964-439: The banks denoting the water line for notable floods in 1784, 1845, 1890, 1940, and the highest of all in 2002. In August of 2002, the basin was heavily affected by the 2002 European floods when the flooded river killed several people and caused massive damage and disruption along its length, including in Prague. It left the oldest bridge in Prague, Charles Bridge, seriously weakened, requiring years of work to repair. Prague

3042-477: The biggest events in the history of the Premonstratensian order was the transfer of the remains of Norbert of Xanten , the founder of the order, from Magdeburg . The reinterring took place under Questenberg's abbacy . This came about in 1627, and since then the remains of the saintly founder have laid at rest in the abbey church. During Questenberg's time, the Church of Saint Roch was also completed. Originally it

3120-588: The cathedral in 1170, Canterbury became one of the most notable towns in Europe, as pilgrims from all parts of Christendom came to visit his shrine. This pilgrimage provided the framework for Geoffrey Chaucer 's 14th-century collection of stories, The Canterbury Tales . Canterbury Castle was captured by the French Prince Louis during his 1215 invasion of England, before the death of John caused his English supporters to desert his cause and support

3198-590: The cathedral was demolished and all the gold, silver and jewels were removed to the Tower of London , and Becket's images, name and feasts were obliterated throughout the kingdom, ending the pilgrimages. Latin America has a number of pilgrimage sites, which have been studied by anthropologists, historians, and scholars of religion. In Mesoamerica , some predate the arrival of Europeans and were subsequently transformed to Christian pilgrimage sites. Our Lady Aparecida

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3276-602: The city of Aparecida, São Paulo . Every year the Basilica receives over 12 million worshipers and pilgrims. There are six main routes that are usually taken. The largest one, The Path of Faith (O Caminho da Fé), is composed of approximately 970 km, of which approximately 500 km cross the Mantiqueira Mountains by dirt road, tracks, woods and asphalt, providing moments of reflection and faith, physical and psychological health and integration of man with

3354-412: The city. The water from the river was used for drinking until 1912 when the Vinohrady Water Tower ceased pumping operations, and is now a place to view the city. It is, however, the source of drinking water in case of failures of or repairs to the water supply from the Želivka and Kárané sources. The Podolí water processing plant is on standby for such cases with the long section of the river upstream of

3432-432: The course of which the church was rebuilt along with the monastery area. After 1950, the library was incorporated into the Memorial of National Literature. Following events of 1989 the library was, along with the monastery, returned to the Premonstratensians . Within the library, a reading room is also open. The Strahov Library contains over 200,000 volumes, including over 3,000 manuscripts and 1,500 first prints stored in

3510-440: The deluxe hotels like Grand Hotel Moderne , Hotel Grand de la Grotte, Hotel Saint Etienne, Hotel Majestic and Hotel Roissy are located here. Combined septennial pilgrimages in the Dutch-German towns of Maastricht , Aachen and Kornelimünster were held at least since the 14th century. The German word Heiligtumsfahrt means "journey to the holy relics". In all three places important relics could be seen: in Maastricht relics of

3588-419: The destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre , only to have his successor allow the Byzantine Empire to rebuild it. The Seljuk Turks systematically disrupted Christian pilgrimage routes, which became one of the major factors triggering the crusades later in the 11th century. The Crusades were at first a success, the Crusader states , especially the kingdom of Jerusalem , guaranteeing safe access to

3666-412: The early example of Origen who, "in search of the traces of Jesus, the disciples and the prophets", already found local folk prompt to show him the actual location of the Gadarene swine in the mid-3rd century, surviving descriptions of Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land and Jerusalem date from the 4th century . The anonymous Bordeaux Pilgrim's Itinerarium Burdigalense ("Bordeaux Itinerary")

3744-434: The glacier , there are fears that the ice may no longer be carried down. The ukukus are considered to be the only ones capable of dealing with the cursed souls said to inhabit the snowfields. The pilgrimage and associated festival was inscribed in 2011 on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists . Before 1534, Copacabana was an outpost of Inca occupation among dozens of other sites in Bolivia . The Incas held it as

3822-424: The indigenous non-Christian population takes place after the reappearance of Qullqa in the night sky; it is the rising of the sun after the full moon. Tens of thousands of people kneel to greet the first rays of light as the sun rises above the horizon. Until 2017, the main event for the Church was carried out by ukukus, who climbed glaciers over Qullqipunku at 5,522 m.a.s.l . But due to the near disappearance of

3900-419: The influence of contemporary fashion, and to maintenance of the area as a whole. The monastery survived in this way until 1950, when it was taken over by the communist regime , the religious being interned and placed in civil employment, very few of them being able to work in the clerical administration as priests of the diocese. The monastery was subjected to thorough archeological research and transformed into

3978-409: The key to the very ancient shrine and oracle on the Island of Titicaca , which they had adopted as a place of worship. In 1582, the grandson of Inca ruler Manco Kapac , struck by the sight of the statues of the Blessed Virgin which he saw in some of the churches at La Paz , tried to make one himself, and after many failures, succeeded in producing one of excellent quality, placing it in Copacabana as

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4056-498: The largest reservoir on the Vltava by volume, while the Lipno Reservoir retains the largest reservoir by area. The Štěchovice Reservoir is built over the site of St John's Rapids . The river also features numerous weirs that help mitigate its flow from 1,172 metres (3,845 ft) in elevation at its source near the German border to 155 metres (509 ft) at its mouth in Mělník. The Vltava basin has flooded multiple times throughout recorded history. Markers have been created along

4134-445: The late 18th century. The young native herder Mariano Mayta befriended a mestizo boy named Manuel on the mountain Qullqipunku . Thanks to Manuel, Mariano's herd prospered, so his father sent him to Cusco to buy a new shirt for Manuel. Mariano could not find anything similar, because that kind of cloth was sold only to the archbishop. Learning of this, the bishop of Cusco sent a party to investigate. When they tried to capture Manuel, he

4212-435: The making of the Vltava navigable in the sector called St John's Rapids ( Svatojánské proudy ). During this period the abbey was plundered by troops of the Swedish Empire towards the end of the Thirty Years' War. The church and the library were looted. After the departure of the Swedes, Kryšpin Fuk had the damaged abbey repaired again, his work being continued by the Abbots Ameluxen, Sutor, and Franck. The last-mentioned had

4290-402: The monastery gardens newly laid out. He regained many of the monastery estates in order to build up the material base of the monastery, providing funds for the institution's maintenance and further development. Thanks to his untiring activity, by 1594—only eight years after Lohelius's appointment—a twelve-member community of monks could live in the monastery once more. In 1612 Jan Lohelius became

4368-428: The monastery was heavily damaged by fire and later renewed. The monastery continued functioning until the period of the Hussites , when it was attacked and plundered by the citizens of Prague in 1420. Books, articles of worship, and the furnishings of both church and convent were burned. Although the building did not sustain great damage from an architectural viewpoint, the monastery took a long time to recover. During

4446-411: The most representative examples is the Romería de la Virgen de la Cabeza ( Andújar , Jaén ), which is considered the oldest pilgrimages of Spain, and consists of the displacement of the travellers coming from all over the country to the Sanctuary of the Virgen de la Cabeza, through 33 km of Andújar, in the heart of Sierra de Andujar natural park. This celebration is held the last Sunday of April and

4524-418: The nature. The Hill of Tepeyac now holding the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe outside Mexico City , said to be the site of the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe . In Mexico , pilgrims walk to the Our Lady of Zapopan , which this considered the third most important peregrination in the country, after the one of the Virgin of Guadalupe , and the Virgin of San Juan de los Lagos. The Pilgrimage of

4602-475: The other three are San Lorenzo fuori le mura (a palaeochristian Basilica), Santa Croce in Gerusalemme (a church founded by Helena , the mother of Constantine, which hosts fragments of wood attributed to the holy cross) and San Sebastiano fuori le mura (which lies on the Appian Way and is built above Roman catacombs ). A romería ( Spanish ) or romaria ( Portuguese ) is a type of yearly, short distance Roman Catholic religious pilgrimage practiced in

4680-417: The picture reached the priest of Copacabana who decided he would bring the image to the people. On 2 February 1583, the image of the Virgin Mary was brought to the area. Since then, a series of miracles attributed to the icon made it one of the oldest Marian shrines in the Americas, On 2 February and 6 August, Church festivals are celebrated with indigenous dances. In Costa Rica , it is traditional to make

4758-418: The pilgrimages were revived in the 19th century. The Aachen and Kornelimünster pilgrimages are still synchronised but the Maastricht pilgrimage takes place 3 years earlier. In 2011 the Maastricht pilgrimage drew around 175,000 visitors; Aachen had in 2014 around 125,000 pilgrims. Marian apparitions are also responsible for millions of tourists worldwide. After the murder of the Archbishop Thomas Becket at

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4836-482: The pilgrims may also engage in social events like singing, feasting and dancing. One of the most famous examples of a pilgrimage is that of Nuestra Señora del Rocío , in which the faithful move to the Sanctuary of the Virgen del Rocío in the village of the Rocío, in Almonte , Huelva . The Romeria of Sant John of the Mountain , celebrated in Miranda de Ebro , is the second most important romeria in Spain behind El Rocío with more than 25,000 romeros . Another one of

4914-461: The prelature reconstructed and a new St. Elizabeth's Hospital built, because the original one built by Kašpar Questenberg was demolished during the construction of Baroque fortifications in Prague. In 1670 Jeroným Hirnheim, a philosopher and theologian, became the abbot of Strahov. His greatest work, which has survived to the present day, was the building of a new library in the so-called Theological Hall ( Teologický sál ), completed in 1679. During

4992-406: The resonance of the New Testament at every turn. According to Christian tradition, at some point between 818 and 842 during the reign of Alfonso II of Asturias , bishop Theodemar of Iria (d. 847) found the remains of Saint James the Greater . Around the place of the discovery a new settlement and centre of pilgrimage emerged, which was known to the author Usuard in 865 and by the 10th century

5070-479: The river's section around Český Krumlov (specifically from Vyšší Brod to Boršov nad Vltavou ) is a very popular destination for water tourism . Nine hydroelectric dams have been built on the Vltava south of Prague to regulate the water flow and generate hydroelectric power , starting in the 1930s. Beginning at the headwaters, these are: Lipno , Lipno II , Hněvkovice , Kořensko , Orlík , Kamýk , Slapy , Štěchovice and Vrané . The Orlík Reservoir supports

5148-438: The statue of the tutelar protectress of the community. During the Great Indigenous Uprising of 1781 , while the church itself was desecrated, the "Camarin", as the chapel is called, remained untouched. Copacabana is the scene of often boisterous indigenous celebrations. The Urinsayas accepted the establishment of the Virgin Mary confraternity, but they did not accept Francisco Tito's carving, and decided to sell it. In La Paz,

5226-462: The surrounding regions, made up of Paucartambo groups ( Quechua speakers ) from the agricultural regions to the northwest of the shrine, and Quispicanchis ( Aymara speakers ) from the pastoral (herders) regions to the southeast, near Bolivia. Both moieties make an annual pilgrimage to the feast, bringing large troupes of dancers and musicians. Attendees increasingly have included middle-class Peruvians and foreign tourists. The culminating event for

5304-405: The walkers, but other minor routes are experiencing a growth in popularity. The French Way and the Northern routes in Spain were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List , followed by the routes in France in 1998, because of their historical significance for Christianity as a major pilgrimage route and their testimony to the exchange of ideas and cultures across the routes. Rome has been

5382-498: The wood of a cedar tree. Each year on 17 August, thousands of pilgrims gather in El Cisne to carry the statue about 74 km (46 mi) in a procession to the cathedral of Loja , where it is the focus of a great festival on 8 September upon with yet another procession taking place to return it to El Cisne. According to the Catholic Church, the festival is in honor of the Lord of Quyllurit'i ( Quechua : Taytacha Quyllurit'i , Spanish : Señor de Quyllurit'i ) and it originated in

5460-421: The young Henry III . During the Dissolution of the Monasteries , the city's priory , nunnery and three friaries were closed. St Augustine's Abbey, the 14th richest in England at the time, was surrendered to the Crown, and its church and cloister were levelled. The rest of the abbey was dismantled over the next 15 years, although part of the site was converted to a palace. Thomas Becket 's shrine in

5538-414: Was a votive church whose construction was started by Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor , in 1602 as an expression of thanks for the end of the plague in 1599. After numerous changes of fortune the church was completed, including its interior, by 1630. When Kašpar Questenberg died in 1640 his successor was Kryšpin Fuk, who continued in his work. Moreover, he gained renown for himself through his participation in

5616-603: Was again flooded in 2013 . Many locations within the Vltava and Elbe basins were left under water, including the Prague Zoo , but metal barriers were erected along the banks of the Vltava to help protect the historic city centre. One of the best-known works of classical music by a Czech composer is Bedřich Smetana 's Vltava , sometimes called The Moldau in English. It is from the Romantic era of classical music and

5694-496: Was called Compostella . The Way of St James became a major pilgrimage route of medieval Christianity from the 10th century onwards. Pope Alexander VI officially declared the Camino de Santiago to be one of the "three great pilgrimages of Christendom", along with Jerusalem and the Via Francigena to Rome. In the 12th century, under the impulse of bishop Diego Gelmírez , Compostela became an archbishopric, attracting

5772-610: Was encouraged by church fathers including Saint Jerome , and established by Saint Helena , the mother of Constantine the Great . The purpose of Christian pilgrimage was summarized by Pope Benedict XVI this way: To go on pilgrimage is not simply to visit a place to admire its treasures of nature, art or history. To go on pilgrimage really means to step out of ourselves in order to encounter God where he has revealed himself, where his grace has shone with particular splendour and produced rich fruits of conversion and holiness among those who believe. Above all, Christians go on pilgrimage to

5850-578: Was intended for the theological studies of members of the order. All this was achieved during the Thirty Years' War , when Kašpar Questenberg himself was forced by the violence to flee from Prague. The financial account of the costs incurred by his building activities amounted to about 100,000 tolars , which at that time was a very respectable sum for any building work. In this respect, Kašpar Questenberg's expenditures were comparable with such builders as his contemporary Albrecht von Wallenstein . One of

5928-578: Was issued to the Premonstratensians, whose first representatives arrived from Steinfeld in the Rhine valley (now Germany ). The monks began to build their monastery first of wood, with a Romanesque basilica as the center of all spiritual events in Strahov. The building was gradually completed and the construction of the monastery stone buildings continued, in order to replace the provisional wooden living quarters with permanent stone. In 1258,

6006-568: Was officially cancelled, but the statue was taken on a tour to cities instead. Vltava The Vltava ( / ˈ v ʊ l t ə v ə , ˈ v ʌ l -/ VU(U)L -tə-və , Czech: [ˈvl̩tava] ; German : Moldau [ˈmɔldaʊ] ) is the longest river in the Czech Republic , a left tributary of the Elbe River. It runs southeast along the Bohemian Forest and then north across Bohemia , through Český Krumlov , České Budějovice , and Prague . It

6084-466: Was transformed into a bush with an image of Christ crucified hanging from it. Thinking the archbishop's party had harmed his friend, Mariano died on the spot. He was buried under a rock, which became a place of pilgrimage known as the Lord of Quyllurit'i, or "Lord of Star (Brilliant) Snow." An image of Christ was painted on this boulder. The Quyllurit'i festival attracts thousands of indigenous people from

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