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Hordes Of Pilgrim: Rocamadour, in southern France, a pilgrim goal of Charlemagne and of hordes of the devout ever since his day, Vezelay in Burgundy and Sainte-Odile, in Alsace, all three in superbly scenic situations, have pilgrimages of importance. That of Rocamadour comes September 8-15 and that of Vezelay July 22. Sainte-Odile has four pilgrimages, occurring on July 2 and 9 and August 15 and 25.
Lough Derg, in County Donegal (Ireland has three other lakes of the same name), is the place of St. Patrick's Purgatory, where the saint, resting on a little island, had a vision of purgatory. From June 1 to August 15, hordes of pilgrims come for 3 days of personal penitential exercises of a severe nature. This is no place for a synthetic pilgrim.
Knock, in County Mayo, has a world-famous Shrine of Our Lady, on the spot where an apparition took place.
10. Places of Pilgrimage Aachen, better known to the world as Aix-la-Chapelle, centered the royal court after the 8th century and later became "The Free City of the Holy Roman Empire." Today, it is by far the most important German pilgrim town because of its imperial minster, to which Charlemagne, a native of Aachen, brought what he believed to be genuine holy relics from all over Europe. Every four years (1958, 1962, etc.) hordes of pilgrims come for the special showing, in the minster, of the chief relics, four in number.
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