It is used once a month to bring pilgrims to the nearby chapel.
Little putt-putt motorboats ply the lake bringing traveller or pilgrims to any one of the dozen or so buildings.
Real estate and land prices were low, compared to Łódź, and the existence of the monastery brought numerous pilgrims, who also were customers of local businesses.
On September 10, 2005, armed men waiting near the village stopped buses bringing pilgrims and robbed the passengers of their valuables.
Caravans from the Arabian desert appeared, bringing new pilgrims with multicolored turbans on their shaven heads.
If pilgrims brought gold; if relics brought pilgrims; if Madouc-even indirectly-brought relics, then the concept was sound.
Here are kept the saint's relics and the miraculous collar, the reputation of which still brings pilgrims seeking the saint's aid in healing illness and possession.
In the 4th century, the martyrium erected over his burial place brought pilgrims to Edessa.
Its people live from percebes fishing and from the yearly tradition that brings pilgrims here to venerate San Andres, protector of fishermen.
The abbot had known that this day would bring pilgrims.