ABSTRACT
Archbishop Timothy Gabashvili is the first Georgian to have left an account of a pilgrimage. 1 Timothy travelled altogether for four years. After leaving Georgia he was for five months a pilgrim on Mount Athos, and then spent seven months in Constantinople. His pilgrimage to the Holy Land lasted about six months. He came back and spent the winter on Mount Athos in the Monastery of the Georgians, before returning to Georgia. Though he lived in the eighteenth century, the pictures he gives both of Athos, the Holy Mount, and of the Holy Land are largely familiar to a modern visitor.
