The Changing Theory and Practice of Irish Pilgrimage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10092013 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathleen Hughes (0009-0001-5806-5953, Newham College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1960 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 143-151 |
| Publication date | 1960-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0469 • E-ISSN: 1469-7637 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022046900066744 |
| OpenAlex | W2312327388 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 1 |
‘I know’, says St. Paul, writing to the Corinthians, ‘that if this earthly I tent of mine is taken down, I get a home from God made by no human hands, eternal in the heavens. It makes me sigh, indeed, this longing to be under cover of my heavenly habitation ... to have my mortal element absorbed by life.... I know that while I reside in the body I am away from the Lord....’ St. Paul is considering the body as a flimsy tent, which may at any moment be taken down, and St. Columbanus takes up this passage in his eighth sermon on the essential instability, the transitory nature of earthly life. Here and elsewhere he speaks of life as a roadway, where Christians must travel in perpetual pilgrimage as guests of the world ( hospites mundi ), content with a sort of travelling allowance. The same spirit of detachment and urgency infuses much of the hagiographical literature: “Leave thy fatherland for my sake, and get thee out’, ‘This is not the place of thy resurrection’, or the wandering scholar to Brigid when she asks him to stay a while with her, ‘O nun, I have no leisure, for the gates of heaven are open now, and I fear they may be shut against me’
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Fatherland · Heaven · Irish · Literature · Pilgrimage · Theology · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces
Reading Allegorically the Character of Gallus in Jonas’s Vita Columbani 1.11
Second thoughts on the interpretation of The Seafarer
Cuthswith, seventh-century abbess of Inkberrow, near Worcester, and the Würzburg manuscript of Jerome on Ecclesiastes
Pebbles andPeregrinatio
The Bishop as Pastor and Solitary
Sanctity and secularity in the early Irish church
Differing in status, but one in spirit
Enchantments of stone
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1973 - 2026 (54) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |