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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In Chaucer's most ambitious poem, 'The Canterbury Tales' a group of pilgrims assemble in an inn just outside London and agree to entertain each other on the way to Canterbury by telling stories. The pilgrims come from all ranks of society, from the crusading Knight and burly Miller to the worldly Monk and lusty Wife of Bath.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"While visiting Siena, Italy, Mary Lea Carroll grew fascinated with the remarkable story of St. Catherine of Siena and made a resolution: Whenever she was lucky enough to travel, if a shrine dedicated to a female saint was nearby, she'd visit it and learn about her. What started as a hobby grew into a journey she never expected, one rich with challenges and cappuccinos, doubts and inspiration, glasses of wine with strangers and moments of transcendence....
4) Lourdes
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 96 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Christine has been confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. In order to escape her isolation, she makes a journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains. She wakes up one morning seemingly cured by a miracle. The leader of the pilgrimage group, a handsome 40 year-old volunteer from the Order of Malta, begins to take an interest in her. She tries to hold on to this new-found chance for happiness while her cure provokes...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 96 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
While the label of 'pilgrim' is still mostly associated with devout persons leaving home with purely religious motives, young people taking to the road as 'backpackers' are generally perceived as adventure seeking globetrotters. Questioning these stereotypes, anthropologist and filmmaker Tommi Mendel followed two young women, one along the Way of St. James — a centuries old pilgrimage route — through France and Spain, and another backpacking through...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Desperate to mend her marriage and herself, Abbie Bartholomew joins her son in walking the famed Camino pilgrimage. During their journey, they encounter an Iranian working in secret to help refugees and a journalist searching for answers from her broken past-and everyone is called into a deep soul-searching that threatens all their best laid plans"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two best friends, 500 miles, one wheelchair, and the challenge of a lifetime. Friendship takes on new meaning in this true story of Justin and Patrick, born less than two days apart in the same hospital. Best friends their whole lives, they grew up together, went to school together, and were best man in each other's weddings. When Justin was diagnosed with a neuromuscular disease that robbed him of the use of his arms and legs, Patrick was there,...
Publisher
Vision Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a pilgrim on his journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City as an allegory of the Christian life being a spiritual journey.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2011, ©1964
Physical Desc
xii, 332 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Prose translation from the Middle English verse of Chaucer's classic group portrait of twenty-nine noted literary characters of medieval society on the pilgrimage journey from Southwark to Canterbury.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
253 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brabbs traces the four main routes within France leading to Santiago de Compostella, the third most important pilgrimage destination for medieval travelers. His photographs of the journeys are breathtaking, showing the tiny towns and grand cathedrals where the pilgrims took, and still take, shelter. In many towns of France and Spain the scallop symbol of St. James can still be found at wayside inns and hostels. Brabbs has written an informative and...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
384 pages
Language
English
Description
"Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Timothy Egan decided to follow in the footsteps of centuries of seekers to force a reckoning with his own beliefs. He embarked on a thousand-mile pilgrimage through the theological cradle of Christianity, exploring one of the biggest stories of our time: the collapse of religion in the world that it created. Egan sets out along the Via Francigena, once...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First HarperCollins paperback edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 275 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
This gorgeously repackaged international bestseller recounts the spectacular trials of Paulo Coelho and his mysterious mentor, Petrus, as they make their journey of discovery across Spain--on a legendary road that has been traveled by pilgrims since the Middle Ages.
Author
Series
Canterbury Tales mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
249 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"One hundred years after the Balfour Declaration, which was also the fiftieth anniversary of the the Six-day War and the tenth anniversary of the Blockade of Gaza, Justin Butcher-along with ten other companions (and another hundred joining him at points along the way)-walked from London to Jerusalem as an act of solidarity, penance, and hope."--Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
45 p. : col. ill. ; 33 cm.
Language
English
Description
A retelling in comic strip form of Geoffrey Chaucer's famous work in which a group of pilgrims in fourteenth-century England tell each other stories as they travel on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Canterbury.
Author
Publisher
Kingstone Comics
Pub. Date
[2011?]
Physical Desc
v. : ill. ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Pilgrim's Progress, a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan, is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature, and has been translated into more than two hundred languages. Now it is retold and shortened in graphic novel form for children and young adults who want to know Bunyan's story but who might well find the language of the original difficult to understand."--Amazon.com
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