"The Pilgrim" is an

epithet An epithet (, ), also byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) known for accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, di ...

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pilgrimage to the Holy Land Christianity has a strong tradition of pilgrimages, both to sites relevant to the New Testament narrative (especially in the Holy Land) and to sites associated with later saints or miracles. History Christian pilgrimages were first made to sit ...

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Bernard the Pilgrim Bernard the Pilgrim (floruit, fl. 865), also called Bernard the Wise ( la, Bernardus Sapiens) and Bernard the Monk, was a ninth-century Frankish monk. He is most recognisable for the composition of a Travel literature, travelogue, in which he det ...

(), Frankish monk who wrote a travelogue *

Daniel the Traveller Daniel the Traveller, known also as Daniel the Pilgrim (russian: Даниил Паломник), Daniel of Kiev, or Abbot Daniel, was the first travel writer from the Kievan Rus.Anzovin, p. 201, item 3391: "The first Russian travel-writer was Da ...

(), also known as Daniel the Pilgrim, first travel writer from the Kievan Rus *

Maenghal the Pilgrim Maenghal the Pilgrim, Irish poet, fl. 844. Upon the death of King Niall Caille Niall mac Áeda (died 846), called Niall Caille (Niall of the Callan) to distinguish him from his grandson Niall mac Áeda (died 917), was High King of Ireland. B ...

({{fl., 844), Irish poet *

Nicholas the Pilgrim Nicholas the Pilgrim ( it, Nicola il Pellegrino; el, Άγιος Νικόλαος ο Προσκυνητής; 1075 – 2 June 1094), sometimes Nicholas of Trani, is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. He was born at Steiri in Boeotia, Greece, w ...

(1075–1094), Roman Catholic saint *

Richard the Pilgrim Richard the Pilgrim or Richard of Wessex, herself quoting (died 720) was the father of the West Saxon saints Willibald, Winnibald, and Walpurga. He led his family on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land but died en route in Lucca, where he was burie ...

(died 720), father of three West Saxon saints

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