A true polymath, I was to find out that she was a fascinating woman whose interests and expertise touched on and expanded so many fields of human knowledge. After all, there were the arts to consider also. Hildegard was one such person, but she didn’t stop there. But few achieve greatness in both fields. Equally, there are many great scientists. Lady Eliza Darling – pioneering social reformer and evangelical Anglican.Meet a saint for our times – Evelyn Underhill.Ugandan Anglican Martyr, Archbishop Janani Luwum.A maverick medieval mystic for modern times.Julian of Norwich: ‘all shall be well’.St Cuthbert – opening the door to the heart of heaven.‘Utterly orthodox and utterly radical’.Anglican Church remembers missionaries on New Guinea Martyrs Day.Dietrich Bonhoeffer: faith as unsovereign attention.Sculpture of Hildegard of Bingen by Karlheinz Oswald, 1998, in front of Eibingen Abbey (Wikimedia Commons licence: Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported CC BY-SA 3.0) Story Timeline Saints and martyrs
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