6/19/2023 0 Comments Illuminations by mary sharratt![]() Within a greening garden so beautiful that it made me cry out. ![]() "Barefoot and mother-naked, I found myself Only Hildegard's mystical visions take her outside theĬonfinement of the anchorage. Tears slid from my eyes as I watched the lay brothers brick up theĭoorway that Jutta and I had passed through but would never be allowed to Every part of my body shriveledĪs he spoke the Rite of Extreme Unction, reserved for those on theirĭeathbed. I choked andĬoughed as the archbishop sprinkled ash on us. Incense and the stink of dank earth filled my nose. ![]() Holy water fell on my back like rain, wetting me through the prickly "The funeral tapers, the bed of earth - this nightĬhrist. Jutta, her older companion by a few years, into a pair of narrow rooms in theĪbbey of Disibodenberg. Novel offers poetic, horrifyingly vivid impressions of the dedication ceremony,Ī funeral service in which Hildegard dies to the world before being sealed with Made her become an anchorite in 1106 when she was only eight years old. ![]() About the extraordinary medieval German mystic Hildegard of Bingen, whose parents ![]()
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