It has fallen, then, to the lot of a Frenchman to discover that the manuscript published by an Italian (Gamurrini) is the original from which the Spanish abbot Valerius drew the account of Etheria’s journey which he sent in his letter to the Bergidensian monks. But perhaps the most interesting point in connection with that discovery is the fact that in Lemberg another monk, of yet another nationality, made the same discovery at the very same time, and would have published it had not he accidentally learned that Férotin had anticipated him by a few days. Father Férotin tells us that while his article was in the press he received a letter from Father A. Lambert of Lemberg, dated 8th July 1903, in which the latter informed him that he too had made the same discovery, and had been on the point of publishing it when he saw that of Férotin announced in the _Review_ in which it afterwards appeared; and he adds: “La découverte de la lettre de l’abbé Valerius ad monarchos Bergidenses m’avait amené sur l’origine de la _Peregrinatio_ a une resultat identique, mais par une route differente.” “I found it,” he adds, “by noticing a sentence that occurs in three of the catalogues of the manuscripts of St. Martial, J. Limoges (thirteenth century). I found that mention was made of a journey made by the Abbess Etheria, _Itinerarium Egeriae Abbatissae_, the identification of which with that of the account above mentioned is beyond all doubt.” Father Férotin published the whole of the letter at the close of his article, that his readers might see for themselves how two persons quite unknown to one another had made the discovery simultaneously. Etheria wrote, as we have seen, the story of her travels for the religious edification of the nuns of her convent. It was of quite a private nature, and this probably accounts for the fact that no other writer besides Valerius seems to have had his attention drawn to it.[58] The archives of Spain’s convents and churches teem with unread and unpublished manuscripts which await the student of the future. Among them may perhaps, some day, be discovered the lost part of Etheria’s _Journey to Jerusalem_, or possibly it may lie hidden in some dusty parchment roll at Florence, or in the Vatican. CHAPTER IV THE SALVE REGINA Avitus I. and Avitus II.--St. Isidore--The story of St. Fructuosus--The origin of duplex monasteries in Spain--One of the favourite saints of Galicia--Almanzor comes to Santiago de Compostela--San Pedro de Mezonzo--Almanzor returns to Cordova--The _Salve Regina_--Who wrote the _Salve Regina_?--Alfonso _el Sabio_--His Cantiga--The Mariner’s prayer--St. Gregory--Foreign authorities--How the _Salve_ reached France and Italy--Dr. Oviedo’s Thesis--A startling article--The Dogma of the Immaculate Conception--_De Consolatione Rationis_--An allegory--Eadmer and Pedro Compostelano