In a way, pilgrimages are as old as mankind. Being at the very base of ancient traditions still practiced and preserved by millions of people, pilgrimages are far from being…

For Abraham, the search for the promised land also became an existential search for the unknown, the transcendent, the radically other.  

Whereas, literally speaking, the Latin word peregrinus means one who has come from afar, a pilgrim is not a just a tourist

The English word pilgrimage comes from the Latin peregrinatio, which strictly translates “to travel abroad,” most of the time to an unknown place.