Q.1
There would be huge significance in definitively identifying the remains of the actual Cross of Calvary 'on which the Prince of Glory died', as the Anglican hymnodist put it in(After all, in earthly demographic terms, Jesus Himself was a carpenter by trade, so His execution on a wooden gibbet added a further element of irony to an already epic occasion.) Which Saint went to the Holy Land in the late 320s AD and discovered the True Cross?
  • St Helen
  • St Constantina
  • St Boniface
  • St Agrippina
Q.2
Which two Saints were the focus for the Canterbury pilgrimage?
  • Aldhelm and Wulfric
  • Athelstan and Nigel
  • Augustine and Thomas Becket
  • Anastasius and Ethelwald
Q.3
Special pilgrimages were laid on over a couple of months in 2015 to an Italian city, whose cathedral houses a very special relic that can only be exhibited for short periods of time due to its fragile (if in other ways, almost inextricably resilient) nature. As what is this relic usually known, in English?
  • The Shroud of Turin
  • The Toile of Veronica of Verona
  • The Cremona Crucifix
  • The Sacred Nail of Rome
Q.4
Not all pilgrim shrines are on the European mainland: the one at Walsingham is perennially popular with British pilgrims (by no means only Catholics). This was all-but done-away-with in the Reformation of the 1530s, but the place's special significance could somehow not be wholly extinguished, and it has been devotedly revived during the 20th century. In which English county is Walsingham?
  • Suffolk
  • Norfolk
  • Essex
  • Hertfordshire
Q.5
Which Saint is patron of the cathedral at Compostela in Spain, a longtime pilgrimage destination?
  • St Mark
  • St James (Iago)
  • St Luke
  • St John
Q.6
There have been pilgrim routes through and beyond France for centuries, not least to Solesmes (the mother-abbey of the Benedictine order). But the country's biggest 20th-century church building honours the memory of a young woman of Normandy: where?
  • Mont St-Michel
  • Arromanches
  • Lisieux
  • Caen
Q.7
In due pilgrim spirit, let's take a moment's break from more modern sites and consider how the Virgin Mary and Her Son Jesus were themselves pilgrims, within their own Jewish tradition. Where did they go, and what age was He on that occasion?
  • To the ruins of King David's palace, when He was in his early teens
  • To the Temple at Jerusalem, when He was rising 13
  • To Mount Sinai (site of the giving of the Ten Commandments), while He was of primary-school age
  • To the Jordan River for His baptism when He was very small
Q.8
One might be forgiven for assuming that all the significant pilgrimage routes and destinations would be in the northern hemisphere, in the heartlands of the Judaeo-Christian heritage; or at least that, south of the Equator, there might only be a few in (perhaps) mainly-Catholic Latin America &/or parts of Africa formerly under French colonial influence. However, as of 2016 a new route is being established in Tasmania (a substantial island off the south coast of Australia). Fairly clearly, Tasmania will not (as least, yet!) have a ready-made series of wayside shrines or other significant religious staging-points. But the priest who is developing the route has recommended all pilgrims to carry with them a shell and one other associated symbolic object: what is this?
  • A palm-leaf (as a gesture of homage, referencing the Triumphal Entry on the original Palm Sunday)
  • A small stone, symbolising the burdens we each carry through life and long to lay down
  • A small phial of water from the River Jordan, in which Jesus was baptised by His cousin John
  • A medallion with the ICHTHUS 'fish' symbol on one side, and on the other a Dove of Peace
Q.9
In July 1949 a young woman was killed in a stampede of pilgrims at a cathedral city in Poland (then newly under an atheistic [i.e. anti-religious] communist regime) ~ where six other blind pilgrims had had their sight restored after praying in front of a portrait of the Virgin, which itself had reportedly 'wept'. Which was this city?
  • Warsaw
  • Gdansk (a.k.a. Danzig)
  • Bialystok
  • Lublin
Q.10
Not far from Compostela (in global-location terms) is the French-Pyrenean commune of Lourdes, probably the most famous pilgrimage site of them all. To whom, and when, were some 18 visions of Mary of the Immaculate Conception granted, and who subsequently became a Saint?
  • Bernadette Soubirous, 1858
  • Marie-Therese Martin, 1894
  • Dominique d'Angers, 1881
  • Elisabeth Moulins, 1876
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