 Prominent Bible Students A. H. Macmillan and J. F. Rutherford were both appointed pilgrims before they joined the board of directors of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania; the IBSA later adopted the name Jehovah's Witnesses and renamed pilgrims as "traveling overseers".A modern phenomenon is the cultural pilgrimage which, while involving a personal journey, is secular in nature.Destinations for such pilgrims can include historic sites of national or cultural importance, and can be defined as places "of cultural significance