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

amorfati1

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• Oct 16, 2014

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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

 

Last edited: Oct 16, 2014

Rebekah Scott

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• Oct 16, 2014

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cool. thanks for this.

 

jouffroy47

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• Oct 27, 2014

• #3

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

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• Oct 28, 2014

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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

Maggie Ramsay

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• Oct 30, 2014

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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

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• Nov 8, 2014

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amorfati1 said:

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?!

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

 

SYates

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Now: http://egeria.house/

• Dec 15, 2014

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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