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Name that picture
Name that medieval song
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When and where was she born?
1098 @Böckelheim
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What was the most famous play she composed?
Ordo Virtutm is a play about good vs evil through 35 dialogues over a man's soul of virtue and vice.
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What language did she create?
Lingua Ignota is her unknown langauge made up of nouns.
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Hildegard von Bingen
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When and where did she die?
September 17, 1179 @Rupertsberg
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What was one of her visions?
In 1148, she envisioned that God told her to leave Disibodenberg Monastery to build another one near Mount of St. Rupert.
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When did she become a nun?
When she was 15 she took her vows of purity and charity.
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The Nun
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When was she canonized as a saint?
May 10, 2012
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What did she study?
She studied natural sciences and used herbs for healing practices. She considered herself a botanist.
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How did she died?
Althouhg it is unkown, she was very sickly and suffered from severe migranes.
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Dorothea of Montau,
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When did she find her convent?
1147 in Rupertsberg she continued to exercise the gift of prophecy and to record her visions in writing.
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What instrament did she play?
A psaltery which is a ten-stringed harp.
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When did she start having visions?
At 3 years old she had her first vision but it wasn't until she was 5 that she understood them.
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Hildegard von Bingen
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Who was her family?
Mother was Mechtild of Merxherim - Nahet. Father was Hildebert of Bermersheim. One brother was Hugo of Tholey. She was one of 10, and the youngest.
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When was her feast day?
September 17. The day she died
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How many books, poems, songs, plays did she write?
9 books, 70 poems, 72 songs, and 1 play
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Bridget of Sweden