!!!Vierberge-Wallfahrt

Vierberge-Wallfahrt (Vierberge-Lauf, literally: "4-mountain 
pilgrimage), pilgrimage first mentioned in 1578, leading over the 
mountains Magdalensberg, Ulrichsberg, Veitsberg and Lorenziberg (north 
of Klagenfurt) on "3-nails day" (2%%sup nd/%  Friday after 
Easter). The distance of over 40 km has to be covered within 24 
hours; pilgrims attend masses and devotions along the way, collect 
different plants (ivy, periwinkle, juniper) for the "Herrgottswinkel" 
(a corner of a room with a crucifix and other religious objects 
frequently found in rural households) and give sweets to children 
waiting along the way. Unlike earlier interpretations of the 
pilgrimage as a Celtic pagan cult, modern research places it among the 
Good Friday processions and Passion plays, developed in the late 
15%%sup th/%  century in formal analogy with the Jubilee Pilgrimage in 
Rome.

!Literature
G. Graber, Die Vierberger, in: Carinthia I, 
No. 102, 1912; H. Gerndt, Vierbergelauf, 1973.


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