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Data publikacji: 2016

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Redakcja tomu: Elżbieta Bilska-Wode

Licencja: Żadna

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Marta Michalska

Peregrinus Cracoviensis, Numer 27 (1), 2016, s. 5-24

https://doi.org/10.4467/20833105PC.16.001.8902

Pilgrimage intentions of XXX, XXXI and XXXII Skałeczna Walking Pilgrimage participants

Pilgrims take part in the pilgrimage with a particular purpose, a single or multiple intentions. Intention can be religious or secular. In this article we focus on individual intentions of pilgrims taking part in Skałeczna Walking Pilgrimage from Kraków to Jasna Góra in Częstochowa. Each pilgrim apart from individual intentions devotes his or her effort in the collective intentions of the whole pilgrimage. In recent years, late pope John Paul II played an important role in the collective intentions of pilgrimage from Kraków to Jasna Góra.
Results presented in this paper has been obtained from two sources. We collected 579 surveys between 2006 and 2008 and conducted a number of individual interviews. Our results show that almost always pilgrims travel with religious intentions. Using an open question format, we found that majority of intentions were begging intentions (477 answers), grace intentions are the second most popular and were indicated in 172 answers. Penance intention has only been mentioned in 30 answers. Only a few pilgrims picked secular intentions. Our results clearly show that religious intentions are still the most popular one.

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Tomasz Duda

Peregrinus Cracoviensis, Numer 27 (1), 2016, s. 25-45

https://doi.org/10.4467/20833105PC.16.002.8903

In the Middle Ages the idea of pilgrimage reached Scandinavia, for a long time regarded as a permanent mainstay of pagan beliefs associated mainly with the traditions and culture of Nordic warriors – the Vikings. The prolonged and filled with many difficulties process of Christianization of northern Europe, over time developed a rapidly growing cult of St. Olav – a warrior, king and martyr of the Christian faith. Over nearly four hundred years, thousands of pilgrims embarked on pilgrimages to the tomb of the saint in Trondheim, making the Nidaros Cathedral the most important pilgrimage center in this part of Europe.
In 1997, the first section of the St. Olav’s Way between Oslo and Trondheim was officially re-opened. After it has been signposted, described and promoted, as well as after it has been awarded with the title of European Cultural Route by the European Council in 2010, the St. Olav’s Way has become one of the largest and most important pilgrimage routes in Europe. The present study is based on preliminary research conducted by the author on the St. Olav’s Way in the last couple of years. Analysis of the available statistical data, as well as the opinions of the trail users themselves and its organizers as obtained by the author through social studies (surveys and direct interviews) allowed, however, to develop some preliminary research on the size and nature of pilgrimage movement along the routes of the St. Olav’s Way.

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