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Walsingham is a pilgrimage site in Norfolk, England, where, according to Catholic belief, a Saxon noblewoman, Richeldis de Faverches, had a vision of the Virgin Mary. The shrine was dismantled in 1538 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. (It has since been revived).
Kipling in 1899 "The King's Pilgrimage" is a poem and book about the journey made by King George V in May 1922 to visit the World War I cemeteries and memorials being constructed at the time in France and Belgium by the Imperial War Graves Commission. [1]
Peace, Perfect Peace is a hymn whose lyrics were written in August 1875 by Edward H. Bickersteth at the bedside of a dying relative. [1] [2] He read it to his relative immediately after writing it, to his children at tea time that day, [2] and soon published it along with four other hymns he had written in a tract called Songs in the House of Pilgrimage. [1]
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and is regarded as being among the greatest of British poets. [ 6 ]
"To Be a Pilgrim", also known as "He Who Would Valiant Be", is an English Christian hymn using words of John Bunyan in The Pilgrim's Progress, first appearing in Part 2 of ...
The Second Part of The Pilgrim's Progress presents the pilgrimage of Christian's wife, Christiana, and their sons, and the maiden, Mercy. They visit the same stopping places that Christian visited, with the addition of Gaius' Inn between the Valley of the Shadow of Death and Vanity Fair, but they take a longer time in order to accommodate ...
The album opens with a cover version of Iggy Pop's "Funtime", which was released as a single and reached number 45 in the UK Singles Chart.Another single was the ballad "Il Adore" which peaked at number 50, and "Same Thing in Reverse", which reached number 56 in the UK and number 28 on the US Billboard Dance Charts.
The precise origins of both the tune and the lyrics are uncertain and debated. [1]The lyrics are regularly attributed to Joseph-François Domergue [2] [1] (1691 – 2 April 1728, died in Avignon), priest-dean of Aramon, [3] in the Gard, from 1724 to 1728, whose name appears on the first manuscript copy of the lyrics, dated 1742 [1] and preserved in the library of Avignon.