In chapter 27 Margery Kempe is still in Konstanz Germany separated from her group and her handmaiden. Within the city she meets a well respected Friar who acknowledges her tears are out of genuine love for God and not for show, and agrees to eat dinner with her and her previous companions in order to help her with her ordeal, all he asks is that she does not speak. 

      During the dinner, her companions attempt to convince the Friar that they can no longer allow her into the party unless she stops her weeping and fasting of meat. The Friar denies their arguments stating it would be incorrect if he were to command someone who had taken a vow to walk to Rome barefoot as a pilgrim, just the same it would be wrong if he commanded her to stop her fasting. Based on this phrase I would assume to some degree these types of religious vows are common during pilgrimages, such as virgins wearing white, fasting from foods, and in this case walking barefoot. This reminds me of, or is possibly due to, other religious practices in the Christian faith like fasting during Holy Lent, Nativity of Christ, or fasting on Wednesdays or Fridays. These types of fasts are important for removing oneself from indulging in the material world and humbling oneself before God and to be reminded of the necessity of spiritual prayer and humility by abstaining from material things. I think this would be especially important for someone like the Friar and Margey Kempe which is why I see why she would take such a fast for her journey and I see why the Friar would support it. Though I am quite surprised to see the other pilgrims upset at her fasting despite this being a common practice within the faith. 

    Eventually the group hand her to the Friar who provides her with money and a guide named William Werver. As the two make their way to Bologna in an unspecified manner, Margery describes again being hosted by people in their homes along the way and being fed by them; it does not specify that she had to pay for these acts of kindness. This makes me think this is a common practice of the era in which pilgrims are fed and hosted for free by people in their own homes along their journey maybe because the journey is a religious one for God. Eventually the two arrive in Bologna in which again she meets her former companions, in order to rejoin the group they permit her to eat meat but to at least stop her weeping. 

 They eventually arrived in Venice, where they remained for 13 weeks with Margery receiving Holy communion every Sunday. Eventually she speaks of the Gospel again to the dismay of the group and they begin to diverge again. When it is time to set sail for Jerusalem Margery opts to take a galley (a low ship with 1-2 sails) all the way from Venice to the Holy land. Eventually they arrive at the port, to get from the port to Jersualem, Margery chooses to ride a donkey. Possibly this may be because this is one of the cheaper or common forms of transportation to get to Jerusalem but I think this may also be Margery imitating Christ who also rode into Jerusalem with a donkey on Palm Sunday. This makes sense to me since Margery is an extremely religious Christian. She eventually visits important holy sites such as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and weeps for Christ who was tortured, crucified, buried, and resurrected for humanity’s sake.