Question

Why did the pilgrim leave Europe?

Answer 1

Hint: A pilgrim is a person who is travelling to a sacred location. This is usually a physical pilgrimage to a place of special significance to the adherent of a specific religious belief system. The concept of pilgrim and pilgrimage may refer to the experience of life in the world (seen as a period of exile) or to the inner route of the spiritual seeker from wretchedness to beatitude in Christian spiritual literature.

Complete answer:
The state religion of England was Anglican. The Puritans and Pilgrims were not part of the official religion of the day. The government's political authority was employed to enforce religious compliance. These religious organisations were persecuted because they were nonconformists. The Pilgrims had fled to Holland to avoid persecution, but they were worried about losing their English roots in a foreign place. Buying a charter to create a colony in the New World would allow the Pilgrims and Puritans to form their own society, free to worship as they saw fit. The Pilgrims seek to gain religious freedom by leaving Europe and the religious oppression they encountered there.

In 1608, the group, led by William Brewster and John Robinson, moved to Amsterdam to avoid religious persecution for performing secret services that were not sanctioned by the Church of England. The Pilgrims were religious nonconformists—Calvinist rebels who despised the Anglican Church's hierarchical leadership and desired a more democratic and direct religious experience.

Note: The congregation immediately became entangled in theological debates and scandals with other separatists in Amsterdam, where they had the freedom to worship as they pleased. Many members of the Scrooby congregation moved to Leiden as a result of this.