For any pilgrim who walks along the Via Dolorosa to the church of the Holy
Sepulchre today, as in the medieval and early modern periods, the experience
combines the sacred with the profane, the public with the personal. On the one
hand, pilgrims walk along the route they believed Christ took to the site of his
crucifixion, on the other they walk along a street lined with shops to the church of
the Holy Sepulchre, built on the site of Calvary, a building made holy not only
through being the site of the events central to the Christian faith (a liminal space as
the locus for Christ’s resurrection), but also through the rite of consecration,1
and
through the liturgical rites conducted there on a daily basis. Both en route and once
inside the church the pilgrims may choose to participate in public prayers, that is
those of their tour group, and sometimes, as on Good Friday, the liturgies of the
Christian churches, or conduct their own private devotions, or to take part in both.
Such pilgrimages, by visiting the places of Christ’s life, help the participant to
come closer to the heavenly Jerusalem; in his early twelfth-century guide to the
For any pilgrim who walks along the Via Dolorosa to the church of the Holy
Sepulchre today, as in the medieval and early modern periods, the experience
combines the sacred with the profane, the public with the personal. On the one
hand, pilgrims walk along the route they believed Christ took to the site of his
crucifixion, on the other they walk along a street lined with shops to the church of
the Holy Sepulchre, built on the site of Calvary, a building made holy not only
through being the site of the events central to the Christian faith (a liminal space as
the locus for Christ’s resurrection), but also through the rite of consecration,1
and
through the liturgical rites conducted there on a daily basis. Both en route and once
inside the church the pilgrims may choose to participate in public prayers, that is
those of their tour group, and sometimes, as on Good Friday, the liturgies of the
Christian churches, or conduct their own private devotions, or to take part in both.
Such pilgrimages, by visiting the places of Christ’s life, help the participant to
come closer to the heavenly Jerusalem; in his early twelfth-century guide to the
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