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MEDIEVAL HEALER of the RHINE

St. H. in monastery garden When in the Novitiate I used to say that the only things St.Hildegard and I had in common were headaches (not migraines but Connecticut sinus) and herbs. I had a huge herb garden with over 100 herbs, for kitchen and infirmary and loved concocting new remedies. My mentor was our Mother Jerome, who was born in Bavaria and raised in Italy. St. Hildegard is considered the first German woman physician and is called the mother of German botany. Her book Physica is an…

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