ROTTERIN ALHEIT
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ROTTERIN ALHEIT 13th-century German mystic and composer. Formerly a traveling professional musician of low repute. After accompanying Elisabeth of Heisen on a journey she was inspired to devote her life to religion. In Engeltal near Nuremberg she collected a group of nuns around her for whom, in spite of it being forbidden by the pope, she wrote masses and liturgies. These became so popular that even pious men disregarded the pope’s prohibition to listen to them, and promptly fell into ecstacy…