... was eighteen, she became a nun. Twenty years later, she was made the head of the female community at the monastery. Within the next four years, she had a series of visions, and devoted the ten years from 1140 to 1150 to writing them down, describing them which included drawing pictures of what she had seen, and commenting on their interpretation and significance. During this period, Pope Eugenius III sent a commission to inquire into her work. The community of nuns at Mount St. Disibode was growing rapidly, and they did not have adequate room. Hildegard accordingly moved her nuns to a location near Bingen, and founded a monastery for them completely independent of the double monastery they had left. She oversaw its construction, which included such features as water pumped in through pipes. Hildegard traveled throughout southern Germany and into Switzerland and as far as Paris, preaching. Her sermons ...

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