Hildegard von Bingen Pendant

This soldered charm/medal may be worn as a pendant.Hildegard of Bingen, Germany, was a Twelfth Century mystic who excelled in painting, music, science and theology. She was an abbess, a founder of convents, and an adviser to popes. She was a sort of Renaissance woman, as she was interested in the study of many fields, including mathematics, science, herbology, the healing power of stones, music, just to name a partial list. She is credited with invention of the opera, as a music form.One of the most remarkable persons of all time, this extremely talented woman was a devoted daughter of the Church. She was recently declared to be a doctor of the Church, only the fourth woman and the 34th person to receive that designation. She died in 1179.Saint Hildegard's feast day is September 17th, and she is patroness of composers, poets, musicians, physicians, and according to some, Catholic nerds. The reason for the last one is that she came up with a mystical language, which involved the use of