Maybe there’s a miscommunication about “These”. I didn’t see anything clearly defined in the original comment about people carrying crosses. Perhaps you have a specific community of pilgrims in mind. I’ve never seen such. I’ve only come across itinerant preachers of an independent nature who carry around some facsimile of a cross (normally made of something light like PVC pipes) as a prop to draw attention to themselves. So I’m not drawing sweeping generalizations, I am only speaking to my experience which I thought was pretty clear from the way I worded my comment.
