Hildegard of Bingen
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Hildegard of Bingen, also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner during the High Middle Ages. She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history. She has been considered by a number of scholars to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany.
Scivias I.6: The Choirs of Angels. From the Rupertsberg manuscript, folio 38r.
The Church, the Bride of Christ and Mother of the Faithful in Baptism. Illustration to Scivias II.3, fol. 51r from the 20th-century facsimile of the Rupertsberg manuscript, c. 1165–1180.
Excerpt from a 12th century manuscript, preserved in the Ghent University Library
Otto of Bamberg
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Otto of Bamberg was a German missionary and papal legate who converted much of medieval Pomerania to Christianity. He was the bishop of Bamberg from 1102 until his death. He was canonized in 1189.
Statue of Otto in the Pomeranian Ducal Castle, Szczecin
Otto's tomb in the Michaelsberg Abbey Church