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20 matches to Pilgrim Fathers
Pilgrim Fathers. 1620. English religious Separatists who sailed on Mayflower to avoid persecution.
Alden, John. c1599-1687. Pilgrim father. Married Priscilla Mullens.
Ali Pasha. 1741-1822. Turkish governor of Greece. Byron’s “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” subject.
Aske, Robert. -1537. Led Pilgrimage of Grace against Henrician Reformation.
Bunyan, John. 1628-88. English Puritan author: Pilgrim’s Progress 1678.
Byron, Lord. 1788-1824. English Romantic poet. Aided Greek indep. Hours of Idleness, Prisoner of Chillon, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 1812, Don Juan 1812.
Carver, John. 1576-1621. English pilgrim, First Governor of Plymouth.
Fatima. Portuguese site of pilgrimage since sighting of Virgin Mary by Santos1917.
Hospitallers, Knights. 11C-. Order of St. John. First devoted to aid of pilgrims to Holy Land. Prominent in crusades. Bought Rhodes 1309. Expelled by Ottomans, 1522. Given Malta by Charles V, 1530. Expelled by Napoleon, 1798. = Knights of Malta.
Hudaybiyah, Pact of al-. 628. Muhammad and followers allowed into Mecca for pilgrimage. Hijrah.
Ka’bah. Shrine in Great Mosque. Moslem Hijrah pilgrimage objective. Contains Black Stone of Mecca given to Adam to absorb his sins. Kidnaped 930-950.
Mayflower. 1620. Pilgrims’ ship to Massachussets.
Meshed. Iranian city of Moslem pilgrimmage.
Pilgrimage of Grace. 1536. Catholic uprising in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire against dissolution of monasteries, taxation and inflation.
Plymouth Colony. 1620 Founded by Pilgrims in New England. Massachussets Bay Company.
Richardson, Dorothy. 1873-1957. English stream of consciousness novelist. Pilgrimage 1915-38.
Separatists. 16-17C. Factions who left Church of England. Brownists, Pilgrims, Quakers.
Squanto. -1622. American Indian friend of Plymouth Pilgrims.
Templars. 1119-1312. Founded by Baldwin II and 9 knights in the Holy Land to protect pilgrims. Created International banking system, 9,000 commanderies, and owned 1/4 of Paris when dissolved by Philip IV, 1307; and Edward II, 1308. Council of Vienne.
Turgenev, Ivan. 1818-83. Russian writer. Fathers and Sons 1862.