Hildegard
Proper noun
Meaning
Hildegard
A female given name from German
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Examples
Abbot Kuno did not relent until Hildegard was stricken by an illness that kept her paralyzed and unable to move from her bed, an event that she attributed to God's unhappiness at her not following his orders to move her nuns to Rupertsberg.
Anna Silvas (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999), p. 139. However, Jutta's date of enclosure is known to have been in 1112, when Hildegard would have been fourteen.
German mysticism from Hildegard of Bingen to Ludwig Wittgenstein: a literary and intellectual history.
Hildegard and about twenty nuns thus moved to the St. Rupertsberg monastery in 1150, where Volmar served as provost, as well as Hildegard's confessor and scribe.
"Correspondent: 'Blessed Is the Speech of Your Mouth'", in Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, ed. Barbara Newman (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), pp. 91-109.
Elsewhere, Hildegard is even said to have stressed the value of boiling drinking water in an attempt to prevent infection.