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One of the reasons that led to a long journey during Late Antiquity was the attraction of the Holy Land, towards which the religious aspirations of the faithful converged from all over the Empire from the time of the Peace of the Church. So many journeys emphasized the pilgrims’ concern to be closer to God by approaching places made sacred by the memory of a biblical story or by the presence of a martyr’s tomb. This practice, coupled with the expansion of the cult of relics, was a major element that contributed to the creation of sacred spaces in the Christian Near East. This article proposes to address this phenomenon in the light of archaeology. It aims to offer a comprehensive reading of pilgrimage-related remains to consider what they tell us about this particular category of travellers. [Author]
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