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At a time when few women wrote, Hildegard, known as 'Sybil of the Rhine', produced major works of theology and visionary writings. When few women were accorded respect, she was consulted by and advised bishops, popes, and kings. This vision focused on Adam and Christ, where Adam fails to pick a flower representing the sweet precept of obedience'. In a radical revision of Genesis, instead of Satan tempting Adam with the knowledge of good and evil, this knowledge was a gift from God that Adam ignored.

The latter leads to the Pilrgrimage Church with the Hildegard-Shrine ('Wallfahrtskirche') and to St. From there, the trail reaches the Rupertsberg in BingerbrГјck, where Hildegard founded her own women Monastery, where she moved with 19 sisters in 1150.In BingerbrГјck, the pilgrimage trail connetcs to the Bingen and the RГјdesheim Trail on the opposite side of the Rhine. Along an old path of Marian Pilgrimage places ('Madonna of the Soonwald') and through the beatiful Bingen Forest the majestic Rhine Valley opens up for view. It continues to the ruins of BГ¶ckelheim and Sponheim Castle, where Hildegard might have got an education with her teacher Lady Jutta of Sponheim (1106-1112).Then the 12 century old Cloister Church of Sponheim with a Hildegarden and a lybyrinth in front are a real highlight of the Pigrimage. Past the barefoot path of Bad Sobernheim, the Hildegard Way reaches the historic ruin site of Disibodenberg where Hildegard had lived for about 40 years of her life (1112-1150). It starts in Idar-Oberstein, the famous city of gems (Hildegrds described their heailing effect) and continues past the Medieval town of Herrstein past Niederhosenbach, the family seat and possible birthplace of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179).

This Conference was organized by the Scivias Institute due to the canonization and promotion of Hildeard of Bingen (1098-1179) as Doctor of the Church ( Doctor Ecclesiae Universalis). The author and director of the Scivias Institute has drafted it at first during the International Conference 2012 for a pilgrimage to the Disibodenberg where Hildegard had lived for almoste 40 years of her life. Based on primary sources and new discoveries - especially since the translation from Latin of the vita of Hildegard's teacher Jutta of Sponheim - this is a new account.

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