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Egeria
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* Date marked with an asterisk is a placeholder estimate (lifespan heuristic), not a sourced claim. Hover for the derivation.
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Quick facts
- Born
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- Died
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- Region
- west
- Era
- post nicene
- Significance
- Notable(2/4)
- Also known as
- Etheria · Aetheria · Egeria the Pilgrim
Highlights
- Main contribution
- 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.
- Primary source
- Egeria, Itinerarium Egeriae (Peregrinatio Aetheriae)
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.
Recommended reading near Egeria
A cover-visible starting point chosen from the curated reading path, either by this figure or by their era.
Chain to Jesus
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Sources for biography
- Egeria, Itinerarium Egeriae (Peregrinatio Aetheriae) primary
- ODCC s.v. Egeria secondary
- Quasten, Patrology vol. 4 (Di Berardino), on Egeria secondary