Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. These people prevented illness with “secular” items featuring caricatured genitalia. A modern “Texts Society” published narratives by these people, like Felix Fabri, that inspired a mountainside replica in Varallo. Giacomo da Verona reported Nubian and Ethiopian kinds of these people in 1335, when Sancia (“SAHN-cha”) and Robert of Naples bought the “Custody” for their care. Venice monopolized these people’s lucrative cotton-smuggling galleys. Nicholas of Cusa decried a fad that attracted these people to German towns like Wilsnack. Cologne’s bell foundries mass-produced pewter badges for these people, who were granted plenary indulgences by Rome’s Jubilee of 1300 and were called “palmers” if they reached the Cenacle. A chaste mystic who imitated Saint Bridget as one of these people wrote the Book of Margery Kempe. For 10 points, itineraries guided what people to the Via Dolorosa’s shrines? ■END■
ANSWER: pilgrims [or word forms of pilgrimage, peregrinus, peregrinatio, or pilgrim galleys; accept palmers until read; prompt on tourists, travelers, journeyers, wayfarers, iter or equivalents; prompt on Orthodox Christians, Catholics, Copts, penitents, devotees, devout or similar answers; prompt on Franciscans, Friars Minor, mendicants, or Spiritual Franciscans by asking “who were the main people overseen by their Custody?”] (Clues include the Palestine Pilgrims’ Text Society, sacri monti, Mount Zion’s “Franciscan Custody” negotiated from the Mamluk sultan al-Nāṣir Muḥammad, and German shrines of the blood cult.)
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