On this day, cosmologist-theologian Hildegard von Bingen died, in 1179. Here's her shrine, as I saw it last Christmas in the parish church of Eibingen on the Rhine, built on the location she'd placed her 2nd monastery - after her first, on the other side of the Rhine, in present-day Bingen, became crowded - the one she had in turn founded after she broke away, much to the dismay of the monks there, from the monastery she'd spent most of her life in, above the Nahe river in Disibodenberg.