It was however successful in rallying citizens and peasants alike under millenarian slogans. Within a few yers it entered in conflict with the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, which treated it as a sect. Born in the early 1920s, "The Good Samaritan" was an ultra-Orthodox organization founded by former military officers with the help of an Orthodox priest. One of the expressions of this general mood is the multiplication of religious organizations run by lay people in which religious activism is infused with ideas of national grandeur.
A looser of the First World War, Bulgaria is characterized by developments in its spiritual and religious life that reflect the idea, and the feeling, of a "national catastrophe". Keywords Religious tourism, Apparition places, Miraculous images, Miraculous places, Motivation and behavior of pilgrims, Lithuania Paper type Research paper Motives and behavioral characteristics of pilgrims enable to better understand the multidimensional reality of religious pilgrimage. Classifications of the miraculous sites indicate various aspects of the development of these places. For the first time, miraculous places of Lithuania are analyzed in the broader international context. Originality/value – The paper is important to the researchers of pilgrimage and religious tourism. The grouping of devotional rituals performed during the pilgrimage and at the destination place is presented. During the journey, pilgrims perform various religious practices such as praying, singing hymns, kissing the relics, etc. Religious pilgrimage has different forms and rituals, and constitutes different models of the specific behavior.
These places attract pilgrims who want to solve different problems in their life or to recover from illnesses. Findings – The research showed that the main motives of religious pilgrims visiting miraculous places were asking for God’s grace, health, expressing gratitude to Jesus or Virgin Mary as well as spiritual quest and renewal.
Pilgrims’ motivation and behavioral aspects are analyzed based on the quantitative survey. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews literature about miraculous events and presents miraculous places in Lithuania (apparition places of the Virgin Mary and sites of miraculous images). Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss various aspects of the development of the places of apparitions and miraculous images, motives and behavioral characteristics of pilgrims coming to the miraculous places of the Virgin Mary in Lithuania.
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