The best-known religious woman of the twelfth century was Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179).
She joined the double monastery of Disibodenberg in the Rhineland as a child and became the abbess of its community of nuns.
In 1147 she experienced a vision that caused her to leave Disibodenberg and set up her own community, solely of nuns, at Rupertsberg near Bingen in the Rhineland.
Hildegard was a cultured woman of wide learning.
She composed music, was a prodigious letter-writer and wrote texts on medicine and herbalism.
However, she was best known in her time for her visions, which were set down in writing and illustrated by the nuns of her community.
The two books of Hildegard's visions are entitled 'Know the Ways of God' (lost since 1945) and 'The Book of Divine Works'.
First Vision - Fiery Life-Force
Second Vision - Adam as Mankind
Vision of the Last Days
Ninth Vision - Personification of God's Power
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