Meaning of protopilgrimage | Babel Free

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A journey or quest that predates or approaches being a pilgrimage.

Examples

“Thus, Charlemagne's protopilgrimage brings him to a protosanctuary where the hero's body is already almost a statue,”

“Dante makes this earlier exchange into a protopilgrimage in the purgatorial style and retroactively imbues it with the weight of this later project, his sacrato poema.”

“The Virgin in Rogers Park manifests the inchoate qualities of a protopilgrimage site that occupies municipal land, reaching out toward a proximate urban realm rather than a remote desert or mountain.”

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