Also there were other ways.

A pilgrim travels unsuspect, for who dare rob a holy man?
and he is free from burgal dues; but if the goods be small and very precious, pilgrims may carry them." The monk, as in duty bound, shook a disapproving head.
"Sin, doubtless," said the woman, "but I have made ample atonement.

Did I not buy with a bushel of gold a leg of the blessed St.George for the New Kirk, and give to St.Martin's a diamond as big as a thumb nail and so bright that on a dark day it is a candle to the shrine?
Did not I give to our Lady at Aix a crown of ostrich feathers the marrow of which is not in Christendom ?" "A mother in Israel, in truth," murmured the cleric.
"Yea, in Israel," said the old wife with a chuckle.

"Israel was the kernel of our perplexities.

The good Flemings saw no farther than their noses, and laughed at Willebald when he began his ventures.