Criminal Behaviour by Pilgrims

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

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In the early and high Middle Ages, an introspective religiosity was predominant and supported by Benedictine and Cistercian monks; thus, pil- grimages to holy places were neither as popular nor practiced as they were in the period from the late Middle Ages