1. What's SO SPECIAL
a bout
Hildegard
of Bingen?

2. REMARKABLE
WOMAN:
“first” in many fields

3. and ngs
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heolary
T n
v isio

4. Consulted by a
nd
advised bisho
ps,
popes, and k
ings

5. d a nt
nde nve
Fou t co
vib ran

6. BEATIFICATION
St. Hi ldegard

7. early
years

8. 10th child
to a noble
family

9. began
receiving
visions

10. nt her to an
se
anc horess
a reli gious
for
edu cation

11. Jutta

12. Most simple
form of
education

13. After Jutta’s
death…

14. AWAKENING

15. her visions
confined o ther monk
only to Jutta & an

16. 1141 AD

17. e
Felt inadequat
& hesita ted to act
“But although I heard and saw these things,
because of doubt and low opinion of myself
and because of diverse sayings of men,
I refused for a long time a call to write,
not out of stubbornness but out of humility,
until weighed down by a scourge of God,
I fell onto a bed of sickness."

18. The Ca
tholic
Churc
h

19. ,
t. Bernard
Wrote to S lessings.
seeking his b

20. MAJOR
works

21. Wrote music
and texts to
her songs

22. Liber Vitae
Meritorum
and
Liber Divinorum
Operum

23. This is Hildegard
book signing—
she’s famous!

24. divine
harmonies

25. Music wa s extremely
o Hildegard
i mportant t

26. MOST
distinguished
migraine sufferer

27. VISIONS = MIGRAINE = death

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29. CREDITS
*photos:
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• flickr.com/photos/cuckove/2175992266/
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• destinationoceans.com/images/SourceImage/Uniworld%202012%20Castles%20Along%20the%20Rhine
%20Map.jpg
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• flickr.com/photos/michaeldillingham/3080246782/
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• flickr.com/photos/amccoan/2975439632/sizes/z/in/photostream/
• flickr.com/photos/sutanto-harsono/3310899803/
• flickr.com/photos/andyramdin/309041364/
• flickr.com/photos/crownbooks/5577609810/in/photostream/
• flickr.com/photos/crownbooks/5577023031/in/photostream/
• flickr.com/photos/cubagallery/3986524856/in/photostream/
• flickr.com/photos/migrainechick/2189803492/