Egeria. What a nun!
She was a Spanish Pilgrim around the Fourth Century. In a time when travel was ill advised and often thought unlucky with women, Egeria somehow managed to talk her “sisters” into bank rolling her pilgramage to see the holy lands for herself and than to send descriptions back to the sisters so they themselves could better understand their religion.
Her descriptions of her travels are candid, with stories of tourism traps ( Lot’s Wife the Pillar of Salt- we swear it was there yesterday!) and details of traveling life. Her diary however ends abruptly and nothing more is known of her.
