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José Antonio González Marrero
Instituto de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas (IEMYR) - Universidad de La Laguna
United States
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6478-6159
No 33 (2021): O fenómeno das peregrinacións. Reflexións e prácticas desde unha perspectiva interdisciplinar, Dossier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/semata.33.7862
Submitted: 23-07-2021 Accepted: 16-11-2021 Published: 25-03-2022
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Abstract

For medieval pilgrims the destination is the most important aspect of a voyage. That is the way in which the Christian itineraries are set during the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, the Irish pilgrim monks that are found in the Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae frequently visit other pilgrimage places creating to what we consider different, typical, and traditional characteristics of a group of people, where the sea occupies most of the areas in the mind of the islanders. They move from one place to another motivated by religious impulses (peregrinatio pro Christo), and, even more, they carry out pilgrimage as a faithful adventure in which they wish to reflect specific spaces (voyages across the sea or voyages to Otherworld), where even sins became a reason for travelling and be forgiven.