EGERIA. – A Latin nun (the most attested form of the name is Egeria; Eteria is a competing form), known only from a letter by VALERIUS, abbot of S. Pietro in Montes (Galicia) in the 7th century (PL 87, 421; see L. Garcia, *La lettre de Valérius aux moines du Bierzo sur la bienheureuse Aetheria*, in *Anal. Boll.*, 29).
EGERIA, RELIGIOUS – Sacellum (intended for worship), mediaeval age.
Fergos, Minoan Palace.
(from L. Perrier, *Il Palazzo Minoico di Feltos*, Rome 1935, p. 268)
(from Z. L. Perier, *Il Palazzo Minoico di Felta*, Rome 1915, p. 270)
Vili (CSEL, 38), Vienna 1898, pp. 35-101; W. Heraeus, *S. Silvius Peregrinatio ad Loca Sancta*, Heidelberg 1908, 1921, 1929. The most recent edition is that of E. Franceschini (Padua 1940), which provides an excellent bibliography. An outstanding linguistic study: E. Löfstedt, *Philologischer Kommentar zur Peregrinatio Aethereae*, Uppsala 1921, reprint 1936; a liturgical study: F. Cabrol, *Études sur la Peregrinatio Silviae*, Paris 1895; a comprehensive work: A. Bludau, *Die Pilgerreise der Aetheria*, Paderborn 1927. Italian translation by G. M. Marinoni, Milan 1896. On the form of the name: A. Lambert, *Egeria. Notes critiques sur la tradition de son nom*, in *Revue Mabillon*, 26 (1926), pp. 71-94; A. Vaccari, *Itinerarium Egeriae*, in *Biblica*, 24 (1943), pp. 388-97. Alberto Vaccari