What is "peregrinatio"

Peregrinatio means leaving of one's homeland and wandering for the love of God. It can refer to:

• the Peregrinatio Sancti Petri, a papal institution for assistance to pilgrims to Rome and certain other pious sites and events

It occurs as or in the title of several notable texts:

• a Peregrinatio describing the liturgical order as practised at Jerusalem, dating probably from the 4th century
• Peregrinatio in terram sanctam, an incunabulum by the Dutch author Erhard Reuwich
• Peregrinatio Etheriae or Peregrinatio Silviae, another account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land
• Peregrinatio Scholastica, or Learning's Pilgrimage, written by the English dramatist John Day