Egeria or Aetheria (often called Sylvia) was a Gallaeci or Gallic woman who made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land about 381-384. She wrote an account of her journey in a long letter to a circle of women at home which survives in fragmentary form in a later copy. 240pp Paper
Bibb Memorial Trust Series
This eye-witness account of the Holy Places liturgy of the Holy Land describes the experience of a pilgrim who visited Jerusalem fifty years after the reign of Constantine, making hers the earliest surviving account. Her loving attention to detail makes Egeria's work an historical and liturgical source of prime importance today. 10 maps, 21 plans, 2 figures. 240pp (1999/Original Hardcover 1971)
CONTENTS
Egeria, the Traveller
Early References to Egeria
Early Christian Pilgrimage
Aelia Capitolina
The Bordeaux Pilgrim
Egeria's Route
Table of Dates
Clergy and people
Liturgy
About the Author(s) Egeria, See Info Under Category: PATRISTICS/ Egeria.
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ARPH-7105
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978 085668 7105 |
