Egeria
Biography
Egeria, a great lady from the West, visited all the holy places of the Christian Near East for three years from 381 onwards. She recounted her pilgrimage in her Travel Diary, written in Latin in Constantinople. Egeria gradually supplanted Etheria as the exact form of the pilgrim's name. Indeed, the tradition (six manuscripts divided into two families) presents it in five different forms: "Egeria," "Eiheria," "Echeria," "Heteria" or "Etheria," but "Egeria" is the only one that occurs in the two textual families.
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Egeria (Aetheria) (300 ? - 400 ?)
Egeria, a great lady from the West, visited all the holy places of the Christian Near East for three years from 381 onwards. She recounted her pilgrimage in her Travel Diary, written in Latin in Constantinople. Egeria gradually supplanted Etheria as the exact form of the pilgrim's name. Indeed, the tradition (six manuscripts divided into two families) presents it in five different forms: "Egeria," "Eiheria," "Echeria," "Heteria" or "Etheria," but "Egeria" is the only one that occurs in the two textual families.
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| Group of authors | Gaul (up to the 8th century) |