Somewhat off topic, but motivated by the speculation that the author of the VMS may have been a traveler, here is a relevant article. It was surprising to read how diverse the individual pilgrim groups were. This also applies to the late Middle Ages.
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Side note: Nestorianism spread as far as China.
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Quote:The Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Christian Access
The focus of Christian pilgrimage in Jerusalem is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and there are countless descriptions of the church by Western pilgrims, detailing the fluctuations over the centuries as to which communities were present and where they had their own spaces. The Franciscan Francesco Suriano, resident in Jerusalem between 1481-1484 and 1493-1515, for example identifies ten distinct groups of Christian Religious who lived in the church: Franciscans; Catholic and Orthodox Maronites; Greeks; Georgians; Abyssinians; Copts; Jacobites; Syrians; Armenians; and Nestorians.
Side note: Nestorianism spread as far as China.