Hildegard becomes prioress of Disibodenberg

1126

After the death of the anchoress Jutta, her young pupil Hildegard of Bingen was chosen to lead the small community of women attached to the Rhineland monastery. Within a decade she would have her mystical visions sanctioned by Bernard of Clairvaux and begin writing them down. Her luminous theological works, composed in a Latin she claimed to have learned by divine inspiration, would make her the most prominent female intellectual of the century.