ABSTRACT
The author's Thietmar, for the remission of his sins, signed with and protected by the cross, set out reluctantly from home along with his pilgrims, who set out with similar misgivings. Adopting the habit of a nun, she applied herself to serving the Lord and in order to devote herself more freely to divine prayers, eschewing the city's tumult, withdrew to the sixth milestone from the city to a place called Sardenay and there she built a house and chapel in honour of the Holy Mother of God, Mary, and afforded the service of hospitality to poor pilgrims. The church containing the Lord's Sepulchre and the place of the Passion still stands closed, without lights and without honour and reverence, except when it is opened through the considerable favour of a pilgrim offering payment. In addition, before the land of Jerusalem was lost, in the church of the Holy Sepulchre there were canons regular following the rule of Augustine.
