Large canopies are planned to cover each of the three jamrah pillars to protect pilgrims from the desert sun.

Their aim was to protect pilgrims and more importantly, to set up hospices and other charitable services to the pilgrims.

Many de Livet family members were associated with the Knights Hospitallers, a medieval chivalric order originally founded to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land.

At the time of their foundation, these were intended as monastic orders, whose members would act as simple soldiers protecting pilgrims.

He protects pilgrims who visited Shri Parvat near his kingdom from bandits.

March 28: A suicide motorcycle bomber killed five people at a checkpoint set up to protect pilgrims near Musayyib.

The victims were part of a special squad sent to Samarra, 60 miles (100km) north of Baghdad, to protect Shia pilgrims during a religious ceremony.

The order was initiated in or around 1120 AD, primarily to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land and to guard and protect Holy places.

The mysterious Castle of the Knights of the Templar in Ponferrada wasbuilt in 1178 to protect pilgrims.

A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint protecting religious pilgrims commemorating the Ashura holiday in Hafriya killing two people.