Saint Hildegard Biography

Saint Hildegard biography

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NAME: Saint Hildegard
OCCUPATION: Nun, Journalist, Playwright, Poet
BIRTH DATE: 1098
DEATH DATE: September 17, 1179
PLACE OF BIRTH: Böckelheim, West Franconia, Germany
PLACE OF DEATH: Rupertsberg, near Bingen, Germany
AKA: Blessed Hildegard of Bingen
AKA: Hildegard von Bingen
AKA: Sibyl of the Rhine

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Saint Hildegard was a Christian mystic, abbess, visionary, and composer. She began wearing the Benedictine habit at the age of 15, and by the age of 38, she had been elected by her fellow nuns to serve as their magistra. The Ordo Virtutum is an example of her dramatic liturgical compositions. She also wrote botanical and medicinal texts. Her works gained renewed interest in the 20th century.