one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620
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someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion
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Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, a. Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages. ``With pilgrim steps.'' --Milton.
{Pilgrim fathers}, a name popularly given to the one hundred and two English colonists who landed from the Mayflower and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth in 1620. They were separatists from the Church of England, and most of them had sojourned in Holland.
Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, n. [OE. pilgrim, pelgrim, pilegrim, pelegrim; cf. D. pelgrim, OHG. piligr[=i]m, G. pilger, F. p[`e]lerin, It. pellegrino; all fr. L. peregrinus a foreigner, fr. pereger abroad; per through + ager land, field. See {Per-}, and {Acre}, and cf. {Pelerine}, {Peregrine}.] 1. A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.
Strangers and pilgrims on the earth. --Heb. xi. 13.
2. One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See {Palmer}. --P. Plowman.
Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, v. i. To journey; to wander; to ramble. [R.] --Grew. Carlyle.
Now Pope John Paul II ranks as the world's number-one jet-setter, a supersonic pilgrim whose frequent-flyer mileage on more than 40 journeys outside Italy would take him to the moon and halfway back.
The evangelist, who has preached in more than 60 countries, including the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, said he was visiting as a tourist and pilgrim to his wife's birthplace.
Michael Ruh of West Germany said police carrying rifles walked continuously on the square in front of the temple and on the Lingkor, the pilgrim's path around the Jokhang.
She wore a Santa Claus hat for Christmas 1986 and a pilgrim dress last Thanksgiving.
"We've been told that no Iranians are coming and that's a relief," a Pakistani pilgrim, Abdul-Khatir Bakhsh, said in an interview.
"I hope to do nothing but be a pilgrim.
One pilgrim was Emperor Constantine's mother Helena, who stopped at the oasis in 337.
They watch every pilgrim approaching the lake and pounce on potential clients.
It first took up arms in the 12th century to defend the pilgrim routes to the Holy Land.
More than 400 demonstrators, mostly Iranians, died in ensuing violence, and last year Saudi Arabia executed 16 Kuwaiti Shiites it said confessed to planting bombs that killed one pilgrim.
For them this was not just the N-120. This was the old route of the Camino de Santiago, the way of Saint James - for millions in the Middle Ages the most important and challenging pilgrim trail in Europe. It is still trudged by the faithful today.
Last year, some small bombs went off during the hajj, killing one pilgrim and injuring 16. The Saudis tried and convicted Kuwaiti Shiite Moslems and beheaded 16 of them.
As the scope of the disaster became apparent, ambulances and security forces rushed to the tunnel, which joins Mecca and the pilgrim tent city of Mina.