E00413: The Piacenza Pilgrim records his visit to Diocaesarea (Palestine) and veneration there of objects belonging to *Mary (Mother of Christ, S00033). Account of an anonymous pilgrim, written in Latin, probably in Placentia (northern Italy), c. 570.

Pilgrim of Piacenza, Itinerarium 4

First recension
De Ptolomaida misimus maritimam. Venimus in finibus Galilaeae in ciuitatem, quae uocatur Diocaesarea, in qua adorauimus, quasi dicentes nobis, amula et canistellum sanctae Mariae. In quo loco erat et cathedra, ubi sedebat, quando ad eam angelus uenit.

'In Ptolemais we left the coast and travelled into the Galilee region to a city called Diocaesarea, in which we venerated what they said was the flagon and the bread-basket of Saint Mary. The chair also was there on which she was sitting when the angel came to her.'

The second recension follows the text of the first. The only modification is an erroneous change of the name of Diocaesarea (Diokaisareia, sc. Sepphoris) into Neocaesarea.


Text: Geyer 1898, 161 and 195. Translation: Wilkinson 2002, 131.