Clarke says something interesting in programme 2 about pilgrimages...
" Pilgrimages were undertaken in hope of Heavenly rewards. In fact, they were often used by the Church as a form of penitence, a spiritualised form of extradition. The point of a pilgrimage was to look at relics. The Medieval pilgrim really believed that by contemplating a reliquiae containing the head or even the finger of a saint he could persuade that saint to intercede on his behalf with God".
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