York Mini Pilgrimage (YHA Walking Festival)

Name: York Mini Pilgrimage (YHA Walking Festival)
Start: 2024-10-07T10:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-07T16:00:00+01:00
Location: YHA York

Schedule

Mon Oct 07 2024 at 10:30 am to 04:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

YHA York | York, EN

Join the British Pilgrimage Trust's Director and Co-Founder Dr Guy Hayward on a 1-day 6 mile pilgrimage around the city of York exploring some of its most well known, and most secret places of pilgrimage.
York was founded in 71AD when Cerialis and the Roman Ninth Legion constructed a military fortress between the Rivers Ouse and Foss; they named the place Eboracum meaning Yew, a sacred Celtic tree. Viking influences can still be detected with Guthrum, a Viking leader, and Guthrumgate, which derives from the Old Norse ‘gata’ meaning road or way. So in York today the gates are streets/ways, and the Bars are the Gates into the ‘Old City’.
Through York’s various ages, there have been many diverse religious beliefs of its inhabitants. You will become at one with them as you walk in their footsteps through their streets. From a pagan belief in deities to the Anglo Saxon conversion to Christianity that had an enormous social and cultural impact, and Jewish struggles at Clifford's Tower and later Reformation tragedy, as evoked by Margaret Clitherow's Shrine. And of course, the building of the magnificent York Minster later yet alongside the ruins of St Mary’s Abbey. On this journey something of all these historical ages of life in the City will be covered, their beliefs, sufferings and joys. And traditional folk and sacred songs will be sung to bring this history alive.
The journey concludes with complimentary cake and cuppa at the YHA.