Professor Kathryn Hurlock investigates the varied ways that pilgrimages have shaped the history of our world in this captivating talk.

Explore how pilgrimage shaped global culture in our conversation with historian Kathryn Hurlock, author of Holy Places: How Pilgrimage Changed the World.

A delightful, compelling history makes a case for understanding pilgrimage as an activity in which the secular and the sacred are inextricably entwined.

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(OSV News) -- The boom in the number of pilgrims on Spain's famous El Camino de Santiago, or the Way of St. James, hit a new record of almost half a million last year. Among them were 38,000 Americans