St hildegard of bingen biography of mahatma

Hildegard was one of the most remarkable women of the Middle Ages.

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She was an anchoress, nun and abbess who founded two religious houses, as well as a writer, theologian, preacher, pioneer free-verse poet, prolific medieval composer of Latin chant, healer, advocate of Church reform, correspondent of prelates and rulers, compiler of scientific learning and inventor of an artificial language with its own alphabet. The year of her birth saw the First Crusade marching on Jerusalem; within a decade after her death, Saladin reconquered it for Islam.

The youngest child in a large aristocratic family, Hildegard was born near Mainz, Germany, in the Rhineland. Jutta taught Hildegard to read from the Latin Psalter. The Bible was to remain her primary textbook. Other noble maidens joined them so that the anchor-hold developed into a small — and very crowded — Benedictine convent.

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When Jutta died in , Hildegard was chosen superior. In , Hildegard moved her nuns to a new foundation called Rupertsberg at Bingen on the Rhine. Fifteen years later, she would plant another convent across the river at Eibingen. Meanwhile, in , in the midst of her administrative duties, Hildegard finally accepted her call to prophesy.

She had been having visions since childhood, but had been unwilling to speak of them except to a few intimates. Yet Hildegard continued to stall, and then fell ill. It would take 10 years to finish. After a papal commission investigated the work, the pope himself read parts of Scivias to a regional synod.