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+[feast day](#feast days): september 17
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+[Patron saint of work stoppage](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-cookie-recipe) (not literally, but): 
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+> [She] was struck by a mysterious illness after the abbot at Disibodenberg initially refused to let her leave and found her own monastery. (The abbot was reluctant to lose the prophet-nun, who’d attracted a fair share of visitors and revenue.) Hildegard lay in bed for months, unable to do anything until the will of God (i.e., her founding her own abbey) was completed. When the abbot finally relented, she made a miraculous recovery.