Some can be matched with places and events in the Gospels; a few are certainly the stuff of legend, mapped out in the 16th century by European Christians who had never been to Jerusalem.
Some correspond with Biblical places and events, while others are definitely invented.
One must turn to the informative catalog, by guest curator Richard Kendall, to learn something of this unsavory episode in Degas' life, a further lesson that avant-garde art and retrograde politics often coexist.