Peregrinatio

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Peregrinatio (sometimes anglicized as Peregrination) is the Latin word for pilgrimage.

It also specifically refers to:

  • a crusade
  • Peregrinatio Academica, the wandering of students ('vagrants') to teachers at different places
  • the Peregrinatio Sancti Petri, a papal institution for assistance to pilgrims to Rome and certain other pious sites and events

It occurs as or in the title of several notable texts:

  • a Peregrinatio describing the liturgical order as practised at Jerusalem, dating probably from the 4th century
  • Peregrinatio in terram sanctam, an uncunable work by the Dutch author Erhard_Reuwich
  • Peregrinatio Etheriae or Peregrinatio Silviae, another pilgrim to the Holy Land's account in a long letter home
  • Peregrinatio Scholastica, or Learning's Pilgrimage, a collection of 22 morall Tractes written by the English dramatist John Day