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Hildegard of Bingeons - The Secret Language
Hildegard of Bingeons was one of the first people to undergo official canonization and beatification from the Catholic Church. It's not known who she shared her secret tongue with in her lifetime, but among her many private writings was a glossary of 1,011 words written in an otherwise unknown alphabet. Some historians have conjectured that Hildegard's lingua ignata, or unknown language, was meant to be shared with her fellow nuns to build fellowship. But then why did she never share with either group? I feel there's a pretty good chance that it was the product of one of her many, many visions, and that she understood it to be the atomic
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