Full Name: Saint Hildegard of Bingen or Sibyl of the Rhine
Born: 1098 (give or take)
Died: 1179
Hometown: Bermersheim vor de Hohe, Germany
Fave Subjects: Art, Beauty, Medicine, Reality
Career Highlights:
- wrote poetry, plays, music, philosophy, and medical books
- invented a new alphabet
- one of the only female preachers of her time
- traveled to many countries, and had a lot of devoted fans
Big Question:
What does everything in the universe have in common?
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