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Insignia > Pilgrim badges

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Pilgrim badges  

Definition

  • Emblems, usually made of metal, on sale at pilgrimage sites to celebrate the saint or devotional object venerated there; earliest metal badges took the form of solid plaques; from the early 14th c., increasingly designed in openwork; use declined after the Reformation [DA]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Badges, pilgrim
  • Emblems, pilgrim
  • Medallions, pilgrim
  • Pilgrim signs
  • Tokens, pilgrim

Notation

  • 120281

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-QXPT8LD4-T

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