Saint Hildegard biography

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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.