Statues of medieval pilgrims are invariably a romanticised image of solo men striding forth carrying a staff and a gourd for water, their cloaks flapping in the wind. None I was aware of were of single women.
07 January 2021, The Tablet
The Madonna in a sun hat
Pilgrimage special
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