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After passing of Jutta who had many followers, Hildegard was elected to be a leader of her sister community. Then she was still in doubt about her visions. But then Hildegard decided that her visions were instructions from God. She confided in Jutta about the visions, who could not keep this secret and told it to several other people. Yet, Hildegard would not record her predictions and visions. Only when suddenly she became extremely sick, she overcame her fear and was more open about her visions that she continued to get throughout her life. Her work on vision was always in progress. In the end accounts of visions were compiled in three books and stopped only in 1179 with her death.
Hildegard founded several monasteries and was respected throughout all medieval Germany. Among her heritage there are many medical, botanical and geological works, poems, plays and music Amazingly, she was the first woman in Europe to write about feminine sexuality and the first to describe scientifically origin of female orgasm. She remained at the level of beautification and her name was was taken up in the Roman martyrology. But never was formally canonized by Rome. Nevertheless, for Germans she was and would remain Saint Hildegard and she is highly popular there even today.
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Posted by katyag on 2009-11-03 16:56:30 | Rating: | Views: 3
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