Woman Pilgrim from Galicia - 4th century AD - off to Palestine

[amorfati1]

yes indeed - you have read that right ....
found out about it very recently via a link a friend shared with me (I have kind and indulging friends who are quite aware of my "peregrinphila"
Around 385 CE, a Galician woman named EGERIA visited the Holy Land/Palestine, walking from Sinai through Arabia into Palestine. She sent written word to a circle of friends and believers back home detailing her pilgrimage and adventures. not sure if she was a nun or not - haven't read all of it yet, but it might be especially interesting for pilgrimage history buffs (which i am not) on this forum?!

published in 1919 in london -
http://www.ccel.org/m/mcclure/etheria/etheria.htm
same info on a different link:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/egeria/pilgrimage/pilgrimage.html

 

[Rebekah Scott]

cool. thanks for this.

 

[jouffroy47]

Fascinating. Thanks-- this would make her a possible contemporary of Augustine and the Gallician bishop Priscillian (The latter whose remains may actually be those found in Santiago and not those of James the Apostle).

 

[Pelegrin]

Thank you for the information. I didn´t know anything about her.
She took advantage of the "pax romana" to travel safe throughout the Roman Empire.

 

[Magnara]

Fascinating! Thank you. Very early ! Just a little later, in 432 AD, Eudoxia built a church in Rome to house the chains that supposedly held St Peter - her mother got them from the Bishop of Jerusalem. The church is St Peter in Chains. So there was a lively exchange of objects and presumably lots of pilgrims by then.
Maggie Ramsay
(The Italian Camino - Amazon)

 

[Saint Mike II]

yes indeed - you have read that right ....
found out about it very recently via a link a friend shared with me (I have kind and indulging friends who are quite aware of my "peregrinphila"
Around 385 CE, a Galician woman named EGERIA visited the Holy Land/Palestine, walking from Sinai through Arabia into Palestine. She sent written word to a circle of friends and believers back home detailing her pilgrimage and adventures. not sure if she was a nun or not - haven't read all of it yet, but it might be especially interesting for pilgrimage history buffs (which i am not) on this forum?!

Hola - great link. So small question - is the book available to purchase (as a hard copy)??

 

[SYates]

Hi, there is also a newer (1996) edition of this book available, the version I have is bilingual, Spanish/Latin, here the information:

Agustin Arce
Itinerario de la Virgen Egeria
Biblioteca de autores cristianos
ISBN 84-7914-219-7

Hope that helps somebody, SY