What nationality was the Benedicte mystic who recommended the use of Bear’s grease?
Bear's grease:  Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), Benedictine mystic, composer and woman of letters, also recommended the use of the substance in her "Physica" (repeated in her "Causae et Curae"). Hildegard of Bingen: Hildegard of Bingen, O.S.B. (German: "Hildegard von Bingen" ; ; 1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath.
German