On Saturday June 6th the annual ecumenical pilgrimage will set out from Erfurt in Germany on a short 18km walk. Each year this ecumenical pilgrimage has a focus, this year it is two strong women from the Middle Ages Elisabeth of Thuringia and St Walburga.
This small local pilgrimage in Germany started me thinking, what sort of pilgrimage would you put together to honour women in the place you live and work? Maybe this is even a way of taking the Daughters of Dissent project a bit further - who preached in your town, was there a famous Abbess maybe or a woman saint, a suffragette?
So who would you want to honour on your great women pilgrimage? I shall go away and think about five names myself - use the comments section to give yours. And it can of course be a sort of fantasy pilgrimage - ie one that would be too far to actually walk.
Greetings by the way from Rome - maybe that's where all this thinking about saints has come from!
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So I think I have five women I would like to take in on my pilgrimage - thought I'm not sure that I'll be able to do it on foot - especially if I start from Geneva!
Dorothee Sölle - Hamburg or Cologne
Julian of Norwich
Yvonne Workman - Wheatley Churchyard
Kate McIlhagga - Iona
Grace Jantzen - the lake district
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