Hildegard of Bingen was born into a noble family in Bermersheim in 1098. She experienced visions from a young age but did not tell anyone about them. At the age of eight her family gave her to the care of a religious noblewoman, Jutta of Spanheim, who took Hildegard with her to be enclosed as a recluse at the Disibodenberg monastery. The monastery became a convent sometime between 1112 and 1115, and Hildegard took religious vows. After Jutta died in 1136, Hildegard was…