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Dear Jon, Pilgrimage as a Penitential Punishment for Heresy Doesn't inquisitorial practice help to differentiate the shrines of Christendom between 'maiores' and 'minores'? Gui's handbook would make one think so, although the distinction begins earlier. Also, isn't the distance/ seriousness of the crime ratio maintained, along with the spiritual dignity of the shrine (e.g Rome)? Many of the pilgrimages listed by Gui are to localized southern French shrines--aren't they?--and many of these possess only a limited regional fama. Also, we mustn't forget the Flemish towns which still used involuntary pilgrimage as a secular punishment in the later middle ages. Gary Dickson University of Edinburgh %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%