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  • HILDEGARD VON BINGEN
  • ANNA MORANDI
  • Laura Maria Caterina Bassi. Lithograph by A. di Lorenzo.
  • MARIA GAETANA AGNESI
  • DAUGTHERS OF CHARITY
  • Miriam Michael Stimson
  • GIANNA BERETTA MOLLA
  • Sœur Mary Kenneth Keller
  • KARIN OBERG;CATHOLIC;ASTRONOMER
  • ST. THERESA BENEDICTA OF THE CROSS
St. Hildegard of Bingen
Gifted in science, this medieval abbess used medicine and botany to help sick patients in her monastery’s hospital. She is called “the founder of scientific natural history.”
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