Willibald saint

Saint Willibald is born in England about the year 700 Saxon parents and Noble S. In the neighborhoods of the year 720, it goes to Rome and continues its Pèlerinage until in Holy Land before returning in Italy via Constantinople. Its account, collected many years later by a religious , is the first book of voyage written by an English. Cousin of holy Boniface, it joined it in Germany after several years with the Monastère of the Mont Cassin. He passes the end of his life like priest, missionary and bishop in Thuringe where he dies in 786.

Willibald is first of all a pilgrim and one does not have to expect to find in its account the notes of a scientific observer. Though it is not very eloquent on a great number of things which we would like to know, such for example that the character of people, the living conditions in the country or the state of the cities by which it passed, Willibald deliver invaluable information on the holy Lieux. It is the only known account to date of a Pèlerinage towards the Holy Land at the eighth century, thus forming a bridge between work of Arculfe (670) and of Bernard Wise the (870).

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the pilgrimage of Willibald saint out of Holy Land
History of the pilgrimage of Jerusalem

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