SOURCE: Feltoe, C. L. Introduction to The Pilgrimage of Etheria, translated by M. L. McClure, pp. vii-xlviii. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1919.

In the following excerpt from his introduction to M. L. McClure's 1919 translation of the Itinerarium Egeriae, Feltoe outlines the course of Egeria's pilgrimage to the Holy Land and summarizes matters of ecclesiastical and liturgical interest contained in her account.

Etheria's Route (to and from Constantinople)

We have, of course, no hint of the route taken by Etheria from her home in the extreme west of Europe as far as Constantinople and back again, unless her mention of the river Rhone be taken as indicating that she crossed it in her journey (possibly at Arles).¹ But it is interesting to note that, nearly fifty years before her, the anonymous “Pilgrim of Bordeaux” gives the route which she pursued, and that may possibly have been Etheria's too...