The English Pilgrimage To Canterbury Cathedral | Pilgrimage With Simon Reeve | Timeline

[@Austin8thGenTexan]

As a very young man, I visited Canterbury on a rainy and cold day. It was absolutely empty and a woman who had been a teenager during the War was my guide. She was magnificent! I felt comfortable enough with her to get down on my knees and put my hands on the very stones where Beckett's blood had flowed. I looked up at her and asked "on these very stones? " She said yes, and I was so glad to be able to do that. Not so much as a Christian believer, but as a degreed student of history. I plan to return within the next 2 years with so much more knowledge in my head about the place...

[@historify.54]

American here, posted in England in the early 1980s. What a wonderful program. Respectful and interesting. I miss the BBC and its intelligent programming.

[@4june9140]

The BBC isn't what it was unfortunately. However, this guy is one of the best independent presenters I've seen.

[@GildaLee27]

41:33 I love when Simon asks the man on the side of the road what he thinks of when he sees the pilgrim carrying a cross all the way to Canterbury. The man simply says, "Christ." Then he greets the pilgrims, says he's Catholic, and asks if they need water or anything. I want to be a pilgrim like the cross-carrying man and walk everywhere with Jesus, and meet His secret friends on the road.

[@Juliet04738]

❤️ “secret friends” 😉 adorable! 🥰 (I get you) thank u for ur comment! 😇🤗🌈👏

[@lw3646]

Such a great travel presenter. Open, friendly, curious, respectful and enthusiastic.

[@TheYorkie2]

Disagree completely his remarks about padre Pio now a saint, deeply offensive to the Catholic church. Very bigoted and ignorant

[@dinx556]

Simon Reeve's programmes are always interesting and insightful, an oasis in a desert of dumbed down television.

[@lw3646]

Such a great travel presenter. Open, friendly, curious, respectful, honest and enthusiastic. I remember his equator series.

[@martinbitter4162]

Thank you for your honesty Simon, for your open mind and for you letting us share your journey. Pilgrimage is never a straight journey, never without doubt. Therefore you are a true pilgrim.

[@lw3646]

Simon is right, today is the golden age of travel, its become affordable for the many, not just the few.

[@dannyrashid-dara4046]

Before 2020 yes. Now it’s noticeably more expensive

[@celtichero9]

As an American Teacher of English History I found this one of the Best Programs on this Topic I have ever seen! the BBC and Especially Simon Reeve are to be Congratulated for a Program WORTHY to be Called ENGLISH HISTORY! There is a saying today " Walk the Walk and Talk the Talk!" This is the Living Definition of that Saying! I once wrote an Essay for my Students called " Castles and Cathedrals" a History of Europe in these 2 structures! I can't wait to watch the next Part of this Excellent Documentary! Again Well Done and Thank You from one Historian to Another! God Bless Always Richard M. O'Bryan

[@calendarpage]

Lovely to watch and listen to at work. : ) I'm fortunate to have been to Canterbury twice, once as a young undergrad, and years later with my then 13-yr old son. It is an experience of a lifetime, especially for Anglophile Americans.

[@dave2940]

Lived there from 2020-2022, lovely place

[@willowwillow1969]

I have just finished reading "The Pillars of the Earth". This documentary really helped some of that content come to life. Thanks for sharing

[@tamaracarter1836]

Beautiful medieval architecture, and a wonderful documentary. Thank you.

[@anniemody]

Thank you so much for uploading this series. It is truly wonderful to go the pilgrim way & see the beautiful Churches & feel the Blessing of Faith. Today is the Assumption of Our Beloved Mother Mary. I am not Christian but I respect all Faiths & I feel as if being led to this series is a Blessing in itself as I watch it in India. Palpable Grace bonds Humanity everywhere.

[@4june9140]

I've watched so many of Simon's programmes since I Discovered him. He's one of the best presenters I have seen and heard.

[@amandab.recondwith8006]

How fascinating to be following the actual pilgrimage road to Canterbury from London!

[@tristanbaldauf3770]

The point where he 'crosses' the road is iconic

[@melanietoth1376]

I'm in Oregon, USA. I would love to go along for the Chaucer tour with that guide. I've loved Chaucer ever since I was little

[@kathleensmith8365]

I love this documentary, it is beautiful and well done. I appreciated hearing your skepticism and lack of faith as a modern man. I guess a word that occurs to me is transcendence. I wish you well.

[@RichardFranciskovich]

Walking is healing ❤

[@almeggs3247]

Viva Cristo Rey Y Santiago de Compostela!

[@oliverlee-os6tr]

until comparatively recent times my old church (which is Anglo catholic) used to regularly attend the bank holiday pilgrimages at Walsingham, the protesters where there even in the 1980s and my mother can remember them shouting at the pilgrims as they processed down the high street!. incidentally Lindsey Urwin (who has since returned to his native australia) ordained one our curates and whilst I recall attending the service (as a ten year old) I didn't get a chance to meet him!.

[@gracelumacang465]

"...and how dare anyone take that away from people"

[@JamesBrown-ij1px]

Thank you. This has inspired me to walk 'The Pilgrim's Way' from London to Canterbury!

[@mikeholley5662]

Some of my Catholic friends of English descent had a portrait of Thomas Becket in their home when I was a kid.

[@GermanWehrmacht]

@16:50 I do agree that a cathedral at Lincoln is truly remarkable and hope that a building as such is preserved, as it is part of English history.

[@SnowElf_96]

All Cathedrals should be funded and preserved by the government.

[@CelticSaint]

Not a chance these days. I would offend someone.

[@tamaracarter1836]

It is a truly incredible sight to see in person (especially when viewed from the nearby castle). The building will no doubt stand for another 900+ years.

[@leteciaguzman4621]

wonderful journey Sir Simon Reeve

[@Markph7]

Thanks for sharing this window onto our ancestors and the pilgrim way. Simon Reeves is a great guide. Humble, curious, doubting, seeking. I do wonder, who is holding the camera? Is it a stranger from BBC? A friend you talked into this long series? History of Lincoln Cathedral was an eye opener. Made me want to see and experience God/mystery/transcendence there not just at Lindesfarne and Iona and Canterbury. Two unmet yearnings for the series: 1) A deeper discussion of secularism, faith, and science. Simon just scratched the surface and played into the well worn tropes of Science = Atheism, Science v. Faith, etc. (how is it that 1000’s of scientists in our day and philosophers are people of faith too? Many have been encouraged to faith by their research in physics, cosmology, cellular biology, medicine, and chemistry. 2) a deeper discussion of economic & political factors that led to the flourishing of pilgrimage and also the factors that led Henry VIII to destroy all these places of worship and give the wealth and land to his Courtiers. It’s a stranger story than his 6 wives. How did a Catholic King, crowned by the Pope as “Defender of the Faith” become a ruthless pirate of sacred lands? (It’s not as simple as the divorce he was denied)

[@derrickzeller3351]

I don't know why those protesters can't just leave the high church Anglicans alone. They're not hurting anyone, nor are they actually worshipping the saints. As an anglo catholic Episcopalian, I may be somewhat bias, but still.

[@Dan-bc9nx]

Derrick Zeller Exactly! I mean so what if Anglicans want to visit the Our Lady of Walsingham Shrine, i’m not protesting anything... my friends are Catholic and they teach me everything about the faith and what they believe, Heck i see alot of Saint Christophers around peoples neck that its become normal for me, which lead me to become curious ^^ So what do i think of those protesters? They’re deluded...

[@keithfrost1190]

I'll leave Christian alone when they leave me alone.

[@TesterAnimal1]

One nutter criticising other nutters for having the wrong brand of nuttery. 😂

[@satyannair4837]

@@keithfrost1190 The best way Christians can leave you alone would be for governments across Britain and Europe to formulate a suitable exchange policy, similar to the one implemented by Mustapha Kemal Ataturk, wherein Orthodox Greeks in Turkey were swapped for Turkish and Cypriot Muslims in Greece and Cyprus, respectively. A modern-day swap would mean swapping British and European atheists for Chinese Christians. That way, you filthy lot can be banished out of existence from Christian Europe. Good riddance of bad rubbish!!!

[@nunyabiz6925]

I thought the same thing. Im like , the slur on the pope says it all. Very open minded ans Christian like lol

[@anndeakin1508]

Great pilgrimage from Holy Island a week spent at Lindesfarn began a magnificent tour of spiritual awaking again in 1970s.welsh pilgrimage began in the 1970s also almost an overdose of spiritual awaking from time of completing* my degrees a marvellous time walshingham a great place to revisit.Wales another pilgtammage site St David’s Cathedral start of Wales a start from mums home a 1960/70s great days.

[@sharon_shaw]

This is so inspiring. Would love to visit sections of it that would be affordable on my time and budget limits

[@cattycorner8]

Superb!

[@Neldidellavittoria]

A very enjoyable video, thank you very much indeed. I hope you can upload the rest of this series.

[@monicacall7532]

Beautiful and informative. Thank you for uploading this program.

[@leteciaguzman4621]

watching again

[@DefneGoal]

Belief is power of love but spiritual is the miracle you will witness and living means a gifted to us, if you can see with the third eye ( you know? 😁) thank you 🙏

[@Eduardo-uo7qs]

Great vídeo. Congratulations Simon for amazing journey to the Cantebury Cathedral. If someone try to find God only look around the beautiful country, places and Bristish people. After that think about the Earth planet and human beings. From Rio Brazil.

[@carolynguinotte8846]

That music at the very start and at the end credits..lovely rousing sound....who wrote it?

[@pammienakh]

Crossbones Cemetery is a post medieval place. The bishop of Winchester mentioned was Anglican and only the non baptized could not be buried in consecrated ground according to RCs. Anglicans had others rules back in those days perhaps.

[@danaglabeman6919]

I can't believe the pilgrimage to Walsingham would still be so popular without the well-known history of Catherine of Aragon going there to pray for each lost baby. I think she'd be pleased to know that what she would consider to be something good came in part out of all her suffering.

[@asadullahmaan3482]

Here because of Chaucer.

[@ellenmarch3095]

Lol, 27:35: "What happens on pilgrimage, stays on pilgrimage..."

[@RP-mm9ie]

Simon is best

[@lisamitchell7070]

I love the Kelley Kettle!

[@nadiacarney2194]

Brilliant!!!

[@dalestaley5637]

Absolutely delightful. The next time I am in the UK, I definitely will do some pilgrimaging.

[@lw3646]

It tends to be more sites like Glastonbury Tor and Stonehenge now that attracts all the new age spiritual types.

[@seandoyle6104]

I think I'm the only one here who used this purely for historical study

[@TesterAnimal1]

Me too. The religious fools are still fools. Always have been. Of every stripe.

[@baronapple]

quite interested in what's the background music of the opening?

[@Austin8thGenTexan]

A great-uncle (priest) was burned at the stake at Canterbury. Two others are properly buried inside as RC archbishops. Made my 1st pilgrimage in 1988 - am returning a.s.a.p. 🌷

[@cowsal77]

May he pray for us and the world in these dark times.

[@Jaimechann]

Oh my god what on Earth happened? Why was he burnt at the steak? Was he protestant during Mary 1st’s reign?

[@sionehefa3458]

This inspires me to get out of bed and walk around the park outside my back door. Nah!

[@elenabaker1914]

I think that Simon is a very spiritual person, despite what he says to the contrary...or perhaps, in part because of it.

[@mikeholley5662]

I agree with you. I think he's been seduced by the notion so popular among the degreed classes that spirituality is the refuge of the ignorant and the reactionary. Because of this, he feels it's good form to declare himself a lapsed Methodist and a non-spiritual man.

[@TesterAnimal1]

Like most Brits, he doesn’t believe the religious claptrap. Yanks tend to. Yanks produced PT Barnum. And voted for Trump. They just “believe”.

[@aclark903]

@@TesterAnimal1 Most? Actually, that is a lie. It is true nons are a growing religious minority but this country is still majority Christian.

[@Jaimechann]

What does it mean to be a very spiritual person? As you have decided for this man that he is.

[@duchessmawi]

I wonder what's the background music 55:33

[@blessedamerican3541]

You could tell he changed along the journey. Very interesting coming from a country where pilgrimages are few and far between. I still can't say it's placing faith in the right places but whatever helps someone on their spiritual journey is good, I suppose.

[@ViscountWoodspring]

23:32 that’s my priest!

[@johnwalsh9210]

Do you know the name of the soundtrack to this program?

[@carolynguinotte8846]

I want to know too? Its beautiful.

[@enrillor1027]

Simon, don`t you realize that everything you do is a quest for God? You deny it, but you're dying to find Him. You'll eventually open your heart to Him and then you'll understand. You're a good person, God bless you.

[@Fardawg]

While I'm against relics on a religious basis, how is it any more macabre to have and honor a supposed part of a saint's remains than to have your granny's ashes on the mantel?

[@pikeman80]

I could see when they were eating the pike they weren't watching for the Y Bones. They can get stuck going down. Now perch is delicious.

[@rullmourn1142]

ty.

[@AvgustGeorgi]

nice

[@lisaannpennington3958]

Every Eastern Orthodox altar has to have a relic or two also.

[@pygiana16]

Those kids in the procession looking totally glum carrying a banner with the word JOY. Lol

[@mikeholley5662]

It's called "solemnity," the rarest of states among the youth of the world. Kudos to them.

[@Ferda1964]

Hello Lindsey , I hope you are doing fine man

[@matrix2ser982]

Alternate title: Modern crusade to the holy land

[@nevenatanaskovic3128]

I watch all videos with Simon, it might be something more appealing in the videos than content it seems 😂

[@dannynicastro3207]

Nevena Tanaskovic ....Yes. the content is interesting, of course. Having Simon bring us all along is wonderful, he has on what i think is a wedding ring, so there is one very very luckylady mrs. Reeve out there. Good for them! I am Catholic and marriage is a sacrament to us...so seems like she has a good man. I know i do and thank God for my Henry every day!!!

[@dannynicastro3207]

Nevena Tanaskovic ...your first name, your given name is beautiful. 🤗😁Hello from America.

[@nevenatanaskovic3128]

@@dannynicastro3207 I live in an Orthodox Christian country but I'm an atheist, respect to all believers though. My scientific attitude towards life renders religion too far fetched a story in a way. :) Thank you, such a nice compliment

[@sawahtb]

Encouraging your population to "pilgrimage" to your Cathedral was one way to make a fortune for the Bishops.

[@bobreed725]

Peace be the journey

[@pamela3102]

Hello

[@elizabethlau644]

❤❤❤

[@davidevans3227]

interruptions from ads is too much

[@finbar6942]

If you try, maybe you can squeeze in a few more commercials!!!

[@albert2395]

Is he walking the whole thing, or jumping on and off trains and only walking short sections?

[@jojokid2729]

Yo anybody else here from online classes?

[@charlesmcdermott6139]

I don’t believe that you are not a believer. The very fact that you are actually making these pilgrimages yourself, for whatever reason, shows that you are some kind of journey in your own life. If these journeys give you joy and many kinds of wonder you just may be seeking and even perhaps finding what faith is really about. For myself, I believe that when we are at peace with ourselves and in this world, we are at peace with life itself which is God . I wish you peace Simon. ❤

[@Jaimechann]

Please do not force your delusions on other people. Get over the fact not everyone is gullible as you, not everyone wants to join your cult so please leave us be.

[@thelordofgifts5343]

Highest Father in Heaven bless brother

[@sligiseesi5393]

ahhhhaaaaaaaaaaa. couldn't even get passed the partridge style intro.

[@CelticSaint]

You're a big posh sod with plums in your mouth.

[@sergiolobato1798]

Caring a cross is like wearing a bushy white wig because you want to be like Albert Einstein, pure folly! The old monk in charged of the skull relic responds I haven't shout of that!? Ha ha... so much for a contemplative life! The blind leading the naked.

[@qt_Bal]

im from thornleigh selisian collage or whatever

[@eliseopeirano707]

What did he find in the mud? 03:25

[@Rach90]

Someone’s wellie (Wellington boot) .

[@darlinemcginity8996]

I can understand if that’s what you believe. There is no place in the 21st-century. However, that is not what others believe and I hope that someday you will change your opinion about it. I will pray for you.

[@pygiana16]

I wish he'd shave more often. He's got a nice face.

[@mariekatherine5238]

Pilgrimages are not disappeared by any means. Look at the mobs who go to Mecca for the Haj. Christians regularly go on pilgrimage at Christmas and Easter to the birth, death, and resurrection sites of Christ. BTW, the correct term is "veneration" of saints, not idolatry. Idolatry is false worship rendered to false gods. Worship is rendered to God, alone.

[@Dan-bc9nx]

Marie Katherine Well put there, thank you! ^^

[@TesterAnimal1]

What’s “false”? It’s all rubbish anyway.

[@traxinex7835]

simon pieman

[@klaviermd]

anybody knows the back ground music from 10:28 ??

[@lw3646]

Quo Vadis?

[@Koreviking]

Why does he keep nagging about ancestors like an American? Are the programmes meant for an American audience?

[@NoNameThoughtOfYet]

Anyone Know The Music At 44:17?

[@qt_Bal]

i have diarrhea

[@willtcm3468]

me too

[@sherylbenkosky5358]

How sad the discretion wreaked on the world by our huge and overpopulated cities. Truly we have disgraced ourselves.

[@willtcm3468]

can we watch something different

[@TesterAnimal1]

Are you able to OPERATE KZbin?

[@wendigo53]

maybe Jesus DID have a wheel on his cross.

[@orange9107]

Rome

[@ellataylor6060]

Why put an atheist to head up a programme about Faith ? Simon Reeve seems to be flavour of the month at the BBC. Once the BBC choose someone , thats it, we have to put up with them until they die, like David Attenborough. Surely variety is the spice of life. I pay their wages I would like to see new faces.

[@Anna-ie6wt]

not you being mad because he don't believe in a god

[@mdwazir7609]

Ligwea hidi

[@suem6004]

He could find faith but that would require effort, sacrifice, open mindedness to greater things. Such as were pilgrims seeking. This modern shrug shoulders give up in an instant because a quest for the divine requires effort is what atheist secularism has given the world. Our grandfathers built cathedrals, our fathers build universities, yet we build shopping malls.

[@h.k.203]

Or maybe just accept that some people just don´t believe and its not always just because its to much effort. Also, he needs open mindedness? Where is yours?

[@suem6004]

H. K. People choose belief. Choose to discover truth. Really, if one is lazy because oh my the effort, then woe be unto them. Open Mindedness requires exploration and not fatalism. Golly, wish I could know. Like a child who wishes he could read yet too lazy to crack open a book. So, the onus is not on religion to prove itself. Rather on the seeker to desire truth in the first place. This series would be much better if an honest truth seeker went on pilgrimage but then in this secularist world, conversion is considered too messy, too uncritical, too conforming, too unpopular. This is just pseudo spirituality.

[@TheEvilDruid1]

@@suem6004 The physicist spends his whole life working to find out how nature works. The hippie takes drugs and sits in the woods to become part of nature. The spiritualist reads ancient tomes from people who guessed why everything is what is then spend their lives talking to the ceiling in hopes they avoid the trappings of nature.....who is being lazy, and avoiding truth? Finding fact,s and being able to accept the ugliest parts of many of them, requires far more effort and "open mindedness" than adhering to faith and hoping it all comes out as desired. Faith is easy to cultivate, figuring out the distance and composition of a star hundreds of billions of miles away, takes years of effort and understanding.....You aren't distraught with lack of conversation, you are distraught with other's lack of your chosen faith. Atheism isn't blind laziness, it's an understanding of the distance between possibility, and probability. Test your true faith, spend 12 years and get a PhD in astrophysics, applying your same requirements of "open mindedness" and if your faith remains intact , then you have made an HONEST effort and can stand on a platform of judgement that isn't spoonfed to you from a text akin to Homer's "Odyssey".

[@Jaimechann]

Actually it requires being closed minded and learning not to question things or use logic or reason. To have faith literally means to believe without evidence. The only thing believers sacrifice is their own minds and morality, which most educated modern people aren’t willing to do. It’s actually more a matter of having integrity and standing up against injustice than simply not making effort as you seem to believe.

[@suem6004]

@@Jaimechann Lack of morality makes men beasts. Harm and mutilate others because narcissists are from 'religious oppression'. Yep, so free. I studied at elite universities with these arrogant secular fools. Dumb as trailer trash when it came to handling tragedies, interpersonal relationships, or really anything outside a book. Not a stick of common sense or perspective 'the sky is falling". I with my moral grounding was coaching them not to freak out and make disastrous moral mistakes. So, religious people are stable, solid, with common sense, and capacity to handle basic life.

[@willtcm3468]

i'm bored

[@DH-zp7bc]

Canterbury today is the opposite of Christianity. The cathedral is like a citadel. And requires payment to enter.

[@si4632]

That will be the protestants 🤣

[@ConstantineJoseph]

Jesus Christ, who was, who is and who is to come

[@Jaimechann]

He’s about one thousand years late on his last prophecy I am not impressed.

[@Fplanet2030]

You should don't eat meat on sirtend day as respect to Jesús sucrifise. Fish and eggs are not consider a sucrifise, so we can eat it. That the middle age reason for aptanend for eating meat in sering day.

[@Lucky73678]

Searches for god. But then he is everywhere. Man is just so confused. And every prophet borders on epileptic vision. Ah the frontal lobe and then heaven.

[@Jaimechann]

What are you smoking mate?😂

[@ffi1001]

23:52 ah bore off mate.

[@decpey1]

Simon was very disrespectful of the monks at Aylesford. It looked like a carefully planned ambush when the monks brought out the saint's relic. He refused to put the item in the context of its time and seemed set on embarrassing the brothers. By doing so he failed the first law of documentary makers: have respect for your subject even if you don't agree with it. And boy, did he let us know he didn't agree with it.