Storytelling In Pilgrimage

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3. What appears to be the role of storytelling in pilgrimage? A religious voyage recorded to entail accounts of a person’s spiritual crusade and objective. A journey, especially a long one, made to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion (Dictionary.com). What do these excerpts suggest about the relationship between monasteries and holy sites? For instance, the record of the Buddhist kingdoms states that the place where Buddha attain to perfect wisdom has three monasteries, in all of which there are monks living. The families of their people around provide the people of these monks plentifully of what they need. The punitive rules are strictly adhered by them. The holy sites are signifying in the record of Egeria and her travels.