Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Hildegard of Bingen
Born: 1098
Died: September 17, 1179 (aged 81)
Bio: Hildegard of Bingen, O.S.B., also known as Saint Hildegard and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath.
Known for:
- Scivias
- Ordo Virtutum
- Holistic healing
- The book of the rewards of life
- The letters of Hildegard of Bingen