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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saint Hildegard |
 | | She chose Rupertsberg near Bingen on the left bank of the Rhine, about fifteen miles from Disenberg. |
 | | After overcoming many difficulties and obtaining the permission of the lord of the place, Count Bernard of Hildesheim, she settled in her new home with eighteen sisters in 1147 or 1148 (1149 or 1150 according to Delehaye). |
 | | Probably in 1165 she founded another convent at Eibingen on the right side of the Rhine, where a community had already been established in 1148, which, however, had no success. |
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