He then travelled towards the coast and passed through Gaza where he mentioned the tomb of saint Hilarion and took then the road towards the Mount Sinai.
Inspired by such a vivid figuration of Biblical truth, Antoninus indulged the classic tourists' act: "and there, unworthy as I was, I wrote the names of my parents".
[7] Although he covered in his travels nearly the same extensive territory as the Spanish nun, his work contains but few details not found in other writers; it is, moreover, marred by gross errors and by fabulous tales which betray the most naive credulity."
The Piacenza pilgrim's description of sites and traditions are sometimes inaccurate, as he tends to confuse places from the same area, or such which are in Egypt.
[3] Chronological list of early Christian geographers and pilgrims to the Holy Land who wrote about their travels, and other related works