I think it's interesting how as the 10th child, Hildegard was given to a convent to be trained and educated by other nobles. In the modern day, people are able to choose for themselves if they want to become a monk or a nun but Hildegard did not get that chance because of the time she was living in. I wonder if she was able to choose for herself, if she would have chosen that to become a nun? If she had had that choice would we have even known her name at all? Would she have written the works that she did?
The visions she had began when she was three years old but she didn't really understand them until she was five years old and that is really interesting to me. I think a lot of people just brush children off to the side and don't really pay attention to anything they have to say. But Hildegard seems like she was a very intellectual child to me. I wonder if anyone listened to or believed what she was seeing in her visions.