Sixteen centuries · 100 guides
Pilgrims and Pilgrimage to Mount Tabor
Meet the people who climbed, described, prayed on and remembered the mountain—from late antiquity to the living Feast of the Transfiguration.
Read the traveller and the text
What can a pilgrimage account really tell us?
A biography, road list, manuscript guide, personal narrative and modern news report do not provide the same kind of evidence. These guides identify genre, authorship, date, route and manuscript history before using a description.
Every cluster asks what the traveller actually records, what may come from guides, which buildings existed then, whose voices are absent and how repeating the journey helped make Tabor the remembered mountain of the Transfiguration.
Ten pilgrim paths
Whose ascent will you follow?
Paula and Jerome
A fourth-century Roman pilgrim remembered through Jerome’s literary portrait.
Follow this journey →02 · 10 articlesThe Bordeaux Pilgrim
The earliest surviving Christian Holy Land itinerary—and its important silence.
Follow this journey →03 · 10 articlesTheodosius the Pilgrim
A concise sixth-century map of distances and sacred places.
Follow this journey →04 · 10 articlesThe Piacenza Pilgrim
Byzantine Tabor, guide culture and the three-chapels tradition.
Follow this journey →05 · 10 articlesThe Armenian Pilgrim
An eastern Christian sacred map during a century of political change.
Follow this journey →06 · 10 articlesSaewulf
A western pilgrim moving through the first Crusader decades.
Follow this journey →07 · 10 articlesDaniel the Abbot
An Orthodox pilgrim from Rus’ in a Latin-ruled Holy Land.
Follow this journey →08 · 10 articlesThe Twelfth-Century Guide
How manuscript instructions taught pilgrims what to see.
Follow this journey →09 · 10 articlesPietro Casola
A richly observed 1494 journey through a ruined sacred landscape.
Follow this journey →10 · 10 articlesModern Feast-Day Pilgrims
Living Catholic and Orthodox pilgrimage, access and safety today.
Follow this journey →Dror Alon’s special field
Why study pilgrimage through collective memory?
Dror’s historical research examines how repeated journeys, texts, rituals and buildings made the Transfiguration present on one particular mountain. Each traveller adds evidence—not only about the summit, but about how communities learned to see it.