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Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Life and Works Crossword Puzzle

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Hildegard, a 12th Century Benedictine Abbess, was a polymath. Author, composer, musician, philosopher, healer and visionary, she created some of the most beautiful religious music, which has found renewed popularity since the late 20th Century. I hope you will enjoy this crossword.
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      1. Antiphon by Hildegard, '__ Abundat' (Love Abounds)
      5. Cathedral town 129 km north by road from Bingen
      9. Cathedral city in the Fens of Cambridgeshire
      10. Uppermost area of the Benedicitine Abbey at Eibingen
      11. Italian liqueur
      12. Not a winner
      13. Hildegard's Latin name for her Songs for the Church, pl.
      15. Shady tree
      16. Propelled a boat
      17. Hildegard was Canonised and named Doctor of the Church by this Pope, 16th of his name
      20. French Cistercian abbot, a contemporary of Hildegard, __ of Clairvaux
      22. From an early age, Hildegard was determined to __ God
      24. Pouch within an organism
      25. Hildegard __ written a number of works about St. __ and 11000 martyred virgins (3,6)
      27. In visions, Hildegard saw the universe as __ (in the shape of an egg)
      28. Hildegard wrote 'O __ One' (frail)
      30. Hildegard corresponded with many __ men, including Popes and Heads of State
      31. Britain's volunteer maritime force, inits.
      32. Simple footwear used by nuns and monks of Hildegard's day
      33. Single herbs used by Hildegard as cures (as opposed to combined herbs)

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      1. Set of bells, often housed in a church tower
      2. Partitions between chancel and nave in a church, pl.
      3. Hildegard was __ in reading by Jutta at Disinbodenberg monastery
      4. The Feast day of St Hildegard is 17th of __
      5. Hildegard wrote both the music and the __ for her many works, sing.
      6. A bad or immoral act
      7. Address of a web page, inits.
      8. Her visions were often of shining or __ things
      14. The nature of the spiritual, as opposed to the material
      18. Hildegard often triumphed over __ (those who refused her requests)
      19. Theological term, gifts from (or to) God
      21. Third century Italian martyr and Patron saint of Civitavecchia, Italy
      22. Philosophical school named after 13th century theologian John Duns Scotius
      23. When Hildegard died, her sisters claimed to see two __ or streams of light enter the room
      26. Consumers
      29. Saint, the mother of the Virgin Mary, var.