Peter the Hermit

Peter the Hermit
A Tale of Enthusiasm

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Peter the Hermit by Daniel A. Goodsell

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1906

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A Tale of Enthusiasm

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y the richer pilgrims for those to whom it was an impossible or severe burden.

[Sidenote: Christianity now Wealthy]

Christianity had now attained a history of a thousand years. It had climbed to stately thrones and to cathedrals. Princes of great names, like Robert of Normandy, and bishops who were also secular princes made the pilgrimage and returned to speak with authority on the attractions of the holy places and on the shame of the infidel's domination.

[Sidenote: Pilgrimage Guaranteed Pardon]

In the shrewd management of the Church at this time, pilgrimages were substituted for penances, and troublesome sinners were sent out of their country on a pious mission which promised forgiveness if it could not pledge reform. It at least secured a period of quiet to their families and of security to the neighborhoods from which they came.

The Bollandist manuscripts afford many details of the pilgrim life at Jerusalem which had, however, to be enjoyed by permissi

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