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See also:HILDEGARD, ST (1098-1179) , See also:German See also:abbess and mystic, was See also:born of See also:noble parents at Bockelheim, in the countship of Sponheim, in Iog8, and from her eighth See also:year was educated at the See also:Benedictine See also:cloister of Disibodenberg by Jutta, See also:sister of the See also:count of Sponheim, whom she succeeded as abbess in 1136. From earliest childhood she was accustomed to see visions, which increased in frequency and vividness as she approached the See also:age of womanhood; these, however, she for many years kept almost See also:secret, nor was it until she had reached her See also:forty-third year (1141) that she See also:felt constrained to divulge them. Committed to See also:writing by her intimate friend the See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk Godefridus, they now See also:form the first and most important of her printed See also:works, entitled Scivias (probably an See also:abbreviation for " sciens vias " or " nosce vias Domini ") s. visionum et revelatianum libri and completed in 1151. In 1147 St See also:Bernard'of See also:Clairvaux, while at See also:Bingen See also:preaching the new crusade, heard of Hildegard's revelations, and became so convinced of their reality that he not only wrote to her a See also:letter cordially acknowledging her as a prophetess of See also:God, but also successfully advocated her recognition as such by his friend and former See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil See also:Pope See also:Eugenius III. in the See also:synod of Treves (1148). In the same year Hildegard migrated along with eighteen of her nuns to a new See also:convent on the Rupertsberg near Bingen, over which she presided during the See also:remainder of her See also:life. By means of voluminous See also:correspondence, as well as by extensive journeys,
in the course of which she was unwearied in the exercise of her See also:gift of prophecy, she wielded for many years an increasing See also:influence upon her contemporaries—an influence doubtless due to the fact that she was imbued with the most widely diffused feelings and beliefs, fears and hopes, of her See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. Amongst her correspondents were Popes See also:Anastasius IV. and See also:Adrian IV., the emperors See also:Conrad III. and See also:Frederick I., and also the theologian See also:Guibert of See also:Gembloux, who submitted numerous questions in dogmatic See also:theology for her determination. She died in 1179, but has never been canonized; her name, however, was received into the See also:Roman See also:martyrology in the 15th See also:century, See also:September 17th being the See also:day fixed for her See also:commemoration.
Her See also:biography, which was written by two contemporaries, Godefridus and Theodoricus, was first printed at See also:Cologne in 1566. Hildegard's writings, besides the Scivias already mentioned and first printed in See also:Paris in 1513, include the See also:Liber divinorum operum, Explanatio regulae S. Benedicti, Physica and the Letters, &c., are contained in See also:Migne, Patr. Lai, t. excvii., and in See also:Cardinal Pitra's Analecta sacra spicilegio Solesmensi parata; Nova S. Hildegardis See also:opera (Paris, 1882).
For a See also:modern study of the See also:saint's, writings, see Sainte Hildegarde by See also:Pal Franche, " See also:Les See also:Saints " See also:series (Paris, 1903) ; and U. See also:Chevalier, Repertoire See also:des See also:sources historiques, bio.-bibl. 2153.
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