St. Hildegard was a Benedictine abbess, writer, poet, and composer who lived in 12th-century Germany. She had numerous prophetic and mystical visions during her life and is said to have been a miracle worker. Her writings include lives of saints and two treatises on medicine and natural history. She is one of only four women to have been named a doctor of the church, a title granted to saints of the Roman Catholic Church whose writings and teachings have special authority.
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