Hildegard was the tenth child of of a noble German family. At the age of 8, she was sent to live with Jutta, the sister of a count whom Hildegard's father served as a knight. When Hildegard was 14, she, Jutta, and one or two others, were enclosed as anchorites. At some point Jutta's anchorhold grew into a Benedictine monastery, connected to the adjacent male monastery of St. Disibod. The number of nuns grew to about 10 at Jutta's death in 1136 and to about 20 twelve years later.

"And it came to pass ... when I was 42 years and 7 months old, that the heavens were opened and a blinding light of exceptional brilliance flowed through my entire brain. And so it kindled my whole heart and breast like a flame, not burning but warming... and suddenly I understood of the meaning of expositions of the books..."

After Jutta's death, Hildegard was named prioress, leader of the nuns but under the authority of the abbot of St. Disibod. Within a few years, Hildegard told her confessor of visionary experiences; he had her write them down and showed them to the abbot. The abbot and the local archbishop ordered Hildegard to continue writing. After some resistance, Hildegard agreed and began the ten-year task of writing what would become Scivias, a report of 25 visions that would sum up Christian doctrine on the history of salvation.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07351a.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_Ignota
http://irupert.com/HILDEGRD/
http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/hildegar.html
http://www.oxfordgirlschoir.co.uk/hildegard/ordovirtutumtext.html
http://www.oxfordgirlschoir.co.uk/hildegard/scivias1synopsis.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/primary/scivias.html
http://www.meteoros.de/hilde/schau_1e.htm

strasne sa pokusam zohnat jej spisy Scivias a Physica, keby ste niekto vedeli poradit, dajte mi vediet ;) zda sa, ze ako cely text je online len Ordo Virtutum