E00507: The Piacenza Pilgrim records his visit to the hospice of *George (soldier and martyr, S00259) close to Elousa (Palestine). Account of an anonymous pilgrim, written in Latin, probably in Placentia (northern Italy), c. 570.

Pilgrim of Piacenza, Itinerarium 35

First recension
Proficiscentes de ciuitate Elusa, ingressi heremum. Ad xx milia est castrum, in quo est xenodochius sancti Georgi, in quo habent quasi refugium transeuntes uel heremitae stipendia.

'Leaving the city of Elusa we entered desert. Twenty miles on is a fort, and in it the hospice of saint George which provides something of a refuge for passers-by and sustenance for hermits.'


Second recension
Proficiscentes de ciuitate Heulatia intrauimus heremum miliario xx. In quo est castrum, ubi est synodochium sancti Georgii. In quo habent transeuntes uel heremitae refugium uel stipendia.

'Leaving the city of Heulatia we entered twenty miles into the desert. There is a fort, and in it the hospice of saint George in which travellers and hermits find refuge and sustenance.'


Text: Geyer 1898, 182 and 212. Translation: Wilkinson 2002, 145, modified.