Egeria

Late 4th-century Christian woman, probably from Gaul or the Iberian peninsula, who undertook a long pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Sinai, Egypt, and Constantinople c. 381-384. Her surviving Latin travel diary, the Itinerarium Egeriae (also called Peregrinatio Aetheriae), addressed to a circle of women back home, is the most important early source for late-antique liturgical practice in Jerusalem, including the Holy Week and Easter rites. The text was rediscovered in 1884 in a manuscript at Arezzo.