Photography & illustrations

Real places, photographed by the creators below. Images have been resized, converted to WebP, and may be cropped by the page layout. Each adapted photograph remains under its stated license.

Editorial illustrations

The pilgrimage road, quiet chapel, and preparation still life were created with OpenAI image generation for Bold Pilgrim. These are illustrative scenes, not photographs of a named destination, actual departure, or customer. They are labeled where used.

Founder photography

The photographs of Rome and Vatican City below were taken by Andrew McGilly, Founder of Bold Pilgrim, on our own visits. They are original photographs, © Bold Pilgrim, all rights reserved, and are credited on the page where they appear.

Bernini's Chair of St. Peter and the Holy Spirit window, St. Peter's Basilica

Tomb of St. Paul VI, Vatican Grottoes

Inside the dome of St. Peter's

Tomb of Benedict XVI, Vatican Grottoes

A vault in the Vatican Museums

Entrance to the Gallery of Maps, Vatican Museums

The Gallery of Maps on a busy summer morning

The Vittoriano, Piazza Venezia, Rome

A Roman street shrine (madonnella), 1614

Mater Ecclesiae mosaic above St. Peter's Square

Madonna delle Grazie, Ave Maria Gratia Plena

"I will make you fishers of men" mosaic, Jubilee 2000

St. Peter's from the square, beside the fountain

Ceiling of the Gallery of Maps

The Colosseum

Our family at the Holy Door of St. Peter's, Jubilee 2025

A 1486 Madonna in the Vatican Grottoes

"Sepulcrum Sancti Petri Apostoli"

The Clementine Chapel, nearest St. Peter's tomb

St. Andrew at the crossing of St. Peter's

Down to the Vatican Grottoes and the tombs of the popes

San Lorenzo in Miranda, a church inside a Roman temple

Gregory XIII's dragon above the Gallery of Maps

Early medieval fresco, Santa Maria Antiqua

Madonna delle Grazie shrine, near the Vatican

St. Andrew Kim Taegon on the outside of St. Peter's

Monument to Pius VIII above the sacristy door, St. Peter's

Our family at the Holy Door of St. Peter's

The Holy Door, with the Jubilee plaques of 2000 and 2016 above us

Santa Maria dell'Orto, Trastevere

Licensed photography

Saint Peter's Basilica facade, Rome, Italy.jpg

Jebulon

Original photograph · CC0 1.0

Assisi San Francesco BW 2.JPG

Berthold Werner

Original photograph · Public domain

Lourdes Basilique et gave.jpg

Roland Darré

Original photograph · CC BY-SA 3.0

Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary (Fátima).jpg

Einaz80

Original photograph · CC BY-SA 4.0

Saint James Church (St. Jakov) Medjugorje

gnuckx

Original photograph · CC BY 2.0

Catedral de Santiago de Compostela agosto 2018 (cropped).jpg

stephenD; cropped by Alonso de Mendoza; exposure and lens correction by Lojwe

Original photograph · CC BY-SA 4.0

Krakow Rynek Glowny panorama 2.jpg

Andrzej Otrębski

Original photograph · CC BY-SA 4.0

Antigua Basilica de Guadalupe 18.JPG

Dge

Original photograph · CC BY-SA 4.0

Jerusalem panorama from Mount of Olives.jpg

Daniel Case

Original photograph · CC BY-SA 3.0