Protopilgrimage

Thus, Charlemagne's protopilgrimage brings him to a protosanctuary where the hero's body is already almost a statue,

Dante makes this earlier exchange into a protopilgrimage in the purgatorial style and retroactively imbues it with the weight of this later project, his sacrato poema.

The Virgin in Rogers Park manifests the inchoate qualities of a protopilgrimage site that occupies municipal land, reaching out toward a proximate urban realm rather than a remote desert or mountain.