Felix Fabri (also spelt Faber; 1441 – 1502) was a Swiss Dominican

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. He left vivid and detailed descriptions of his pilgrimages to

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and also in 1489 authored a book on the history of

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, entitled ''Historia Suevorum''. He made his early studies under the Dominicans at

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and

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, where he spent most of his life. "Faber" is the Latin nominative singular form of his surname. He is often referred to as "Fabri," the Latin genitive singular, i.e. the possessive form, because his name appears this way in the title of his book, "Fratris Felicis Fabri Evagatorium in Terræ Sanctæ, Arabiæ et Egypti peregrinationem." One of Fabri's companions during his 1483–84 pilgrimage to the

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was Hungarian poet and cleric

János Lászai János Lászai (also ''Lazói'' or ''Lázói'', la, Johannes de Lazo, en, John Lazinus; 1448 – 17 August 1523) was a Hungarian Humanist poet and clergyman. Life He was born in 1448 in Lázó or Lászó, Torna County, the territory of presen ...

( la, Johannes de Lazo). In Jerusalem he met

Bernhard von Breidenbach Bernhard von Breidenbach (also ''Breydenbach'') (ca. 1440 – 1497) was a politician in the Electorate of Mainz. He wrote a travel report, ''Peregrinatio in terram sanctam'' (1486), from his travels to the Holy Land. In Jerusalem he met Felix F ...

.Fabri, 1893, p
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/ref> A fictional account of Fabri's journey to and time in the Holy Land is found in the book A Stolen Tongue, by Sheri Holman.

References

Bibliography

*Fabri, Felix (1848):
Fratris Felicis Fabri Evagatorium in Terrae sanctae, Arabiae et Aegypti peregrinationem: 3 vol.
' in

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. Vol 1. The full text, google-books, *Fabri, Felix (1849):
Fratris Felicis Fabri Evagatorium in Terræ Sanctæ, Arabiæ et Egypti peregrinationem
' in Latin. Vol 3. The full text, google-books, * * * * with p
677: IndexJean Meyers
''Félix Fabri. Les errances de Frère Félix, pélerin en Terre sainte, en Arabie et en Égypte (1480–1483). Tome I : Premier et deuxième traités''. Montpellier : Publications de l'Université Paul-Valéry et d
CERCAM
2000, 438 p. *''Félix Fabri. Les errances de Frère Félix, pélerin en Terre sainte, en Arabie et en Égypte (1480–1483). Tome II : Troisième et quatrième traités''. Texte Latin, introduction, traduction et notes sous la direction de Jean Meyers et Nicole Chareyron, Montpellier : Publications de l'Université Paul-Valéry et du CERCAM, 2003, 453 p. * * * *''Pilgrimage Yesterday and Today'' (1988) J. G. Davies, SCM Press Ltd. Swiss Dominicans Holy Land travellers Year of birth uncertain 1440s births 1502 deaths Medieval Knights of the Holy Sepulchre {{RC-clergy-stub