Pilgrimage to locations closely connected to Jesus, the apostles and various Christian saints became more and more popular as the middle ages passed by, with the pilgrimages to Rome, the Holy Land and Santiago de Compostela being the most prominent ones. Is it possible for Constantinople, the city where St. Helena and Constantine himself are buried, to become as prominent a site for pilgrimage for Christians all over Europe as the aforementioned places are, perhaps by the relics of an apostle suddenly being found as they were in Santiago? Could a pilgrimage industry arising under for instance the Macedonians mitigate the drifting apart between west and east that led to the schism? Does such a timeline lead to an eastern reconquista mirroring the western one for instance? Or is the difference between the Roman and Constantinopolitan current within the unified church too great by the early to high middle ages for there to be many westerners who would trek to Constantinople?