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| | Hildegarde von Bingen |
 | | Hildegarde of Bingen was a preacher at a time when canon law forbade women to preach, a named composer when most music was anonymous, a visionary, a theologian, a writer, an artist, a hagiographer, a prolific letter-writer and an early scientist, botanist, herbalist, physician and healer - she even invented her own coded language. |
 | | Hildegarde experienced visions from her early childhood; she could see things that were invisible to those around her, foretold the future and her vision was filled with a strange luminosity which she later came to call 'the reflection of the Living Light'. |
 | | Hildegarde was a forthright woman who was not going to allow the church to place women in a subservient place to men; nor was she going to concede, as many leading thinkers and theologians of her age taught, that woman was evil, seductress, and not created in the image and likeness of God. |
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