 Notably, it is the female Virtues who restore the fallen to the community of the faithful, not the male Patriarchs or Prophets.This would have been a significant message to the nuns in Hildegard's convent.Scholars assert that the role of the Devil would have been played by Volmar, while Hildegard's nuns would have played the parts of Anima (the human souls) and the Virtues.