pilgrim

“I’m just a weary pilgrim trying to find what feels like home,” she sings.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

The treks flourished throughout the Middle Ages, faded, then rebounded from a niche spiritual journey to a global escape hatch; in 2025, the pilgrim office handed out 530,000 certificates of completion, or compostelas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

I had only ever seen him on Zoom, and although he was tall, which was nice, I tried not to judge his brown cracked-leather buckled pilgrim shoes paired with high-waist Wrangler jeans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Every person is a pilgrim on their own grief journey.

From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026

Instead I knelt on the floor, feeling like a pilgrim begging advice from an all-knowing oracle.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

The local Catholic Church has asked residents to open their doors to pilgrims who make the journey for the pope's visit.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Officials expect seven million pilgrims to turn out for Leo.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

In June 2025, seven people were killed when a helicopter carrying pilgrims crashed near Kedarnath.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Pope Leo reassured pilgrims that the mass was "well-contained" and caught "at an early stage".

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Nearly five decades later, the clock—in unmoving silence— tells the story to worshipers and to pilgrims who walk through the church doors.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry