Participants in this practice often wore badges marked with imagery related to their destination, like a scallop shell or the heads of the Three Kings. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this practice that in medieval Europe involved traveling to a holy site like Santiago de Compostela or Thomas Becket’s tomb in Canterbury.
ANSWER: pilgrimage
[10h] Pilgrims visited the Shrine of the Three Kings in this city’s cathedral. This German city’s archbishop was one of the three ecclesiastical electors of the Holy Roman Emperor, along with Mainz (“mines”) and Trier.
ANSWER: Cologne [or Köln]
[10m] A 12th-century codex advising pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela on how to avoid bad food and scams is attributed to a pope of this name. The first Borgia pope took this name and excommunicated Halley’s Comet.
ANSWER: Callixtus [accept Psuedo-Callixtus; accept Callixtus II; accept Callixtus III]
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