 Portions of the uncompleted work were read aloud to Pope Eugenius III at the Synod of Trier in 1148, after which he sent Hildegard a letter with his blessing.This blessing was later construed as papal approval for all of Hildegard's wide-ranging theological activities.Towards the end of her life, Hildegard commissioned a richly decorated manuscript of "Scivias" (the Rupertsberg Codex); although the original has been lost since its evacuation to Dresden for safekeeping in 1945, its images are preserved in a hand-painted facsimile from the 1920s.