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Of what is known of the life of Egeria comes from her writings. From details of her comparisons of the Red Sea to the "Ocean" it appears she came from the western coast of Spain or France. Her pilgrimage to the East likely took place between 381 and 384. As a tourist she differed greatly from present day tourists, whose interests are mainly of the secular world, in that the interests in her travels was only that of the Christian world. She writes of little of the [[pagan]] world around her. Her enthusiasms fill her letter with comments about the environment and Christian world she visited, about the [[monk]]s, the holy places, and the liturgies and services.
Her experiences were recorded in a book called ''Itinerarium Egeriae'' or ''Travels''. The two surviving parts of her book begin, in the first part, as she approached [[St. Catherine's Monastery (Sinai)|Mount Sinai]] and end in Constantinople and in the second part with descriptions of the services in Jerusalem.
==Discovery==
