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Why pilgrimages are more popular than they have been for a long time
For centuries, Mariazell in Styria has been a destination for pilgrims from far beyond Austria's borders, and this year more than 500,000 guests are expected. Last year's figures have already been exceeded. What is behind the boom?
Even if you have to walk over hill and dale, usually for days and in rainy weather, and put up with numerous hardships: With pilgrimages, the journey is not the destination. The goal is at the forefront of the arduous hike. In the case of Mariazell, Austria's most important pilgrimage site, this is the time-honored basilica with its statue of the Magna Mater Austriae. As early as the 12th century, believers are said to have taken long walks to the Marian shrine in Upper Styria to ask for something or simply to say thank you.
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