Hildegard) when author Clemency Burton-Hill mentioned her as a composer in Year of Wonder. I first became interested in Hildegard von Bingen (St. She does feel called to serve God but she knows this is not her path. Hildegard has always loved the woods and the outdoors and she’s desperate to find a way out. But the girls are never allowed to leave and are expected to live a life of religious prayer and contemplation. One of the rooms is a courtyard open to the sky and the other has a screen for food to pass through and for conversation. When the two girls arrive at the monastery, the monks hold a service for the dead to symbolize their passage from the world of the flesh and wall them into two tiny cells that they share. Hildegard is only eight years old and doesn’t understand exactly what her future holds. She arranges for Hildegard to accompany Jutta, a higher-ranking noble who wants to become an anchorite at the monastery at Disibodenberg in Germany. Hildegard has had strange visions all her life so her mom decides that she will be the family’s gift to the Church. While her father and two oldest brothers are away fighting in the Crusades for literally decades, Hildegard’s mother starts arranging marriages for her daughters. Young Hildegard was the tenth child of an aristocratic family.
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