St hildegard of bingen biography for kids
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Saint Hildegard of Bingen
Image: Hildegard von Bingen | Line engraving by W. Marshall | Wellcome Images
Saint of the Day for December 17
(September 16, – September 17, )
Saint Hildegard of Bingen’s Story
Abbess, artist, author, composer, mystic, pharmacist, poet, preacher, theologian—where to begin in describing this remarkable woman?
Born into a noble family, she was instructed for ten years by the holy woman Blessed Jutta. When Hildegard was 18, she became a Benedictine nun at the Monastery of Saint Disibodenberg. Ordered by her confessor to write down the visions that she had received since the age of three, Hildegard took ten years to write her Scivias (Know the Ways). Pope Eugene III read it, and in , encouraged her to continue writing. Her Book of the Merits of Life and Book of Divine Works followed. She wrote over letters to people who sought her advice; she also composed short works on medicine and physiology,
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N.J. MASTRO
I wasn’t sure if the story of a cloistered nunna from the Middle Ages would hold my interest. After all, how interesting could it be? And not long ago, inom had tried another book on the same historical figure, only to toss it aside with disappointment over the lackluster writing.
But I’d heard so much about Hildegard von Bingen that I wasn't ready to give up just yet. So when I found Mary Sharratt’s historical novel Illuminations, I decided to give Hildegard another try.
I am happy to say inom was not disappointed. The story of Hildegard von Bingen fryst vatten utterly fascinating, especially as told by this master storyteller.
Hildegard von Bingen was born in Bermersheim on the Rhine in in what is now Germany. When Hildegard turned eight, her mother delivered her to Disibodenberg, a four-hundred-year-old monastery. As her lower noble family’s tenth child, Hildegard was her family’s “tithe,” or payment to the Catholic Church. Her father was in th
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Visions, Music, and Medicine: The Life of Saint Hildegard of Bingen
By Christian Jenkins
Hildegard of Bingen was a mystic born in who had visions from God which were verified bygd Pope Eugenius during her lifetime.
Her visions were written down in her first and most famous work Scivias which she did not write, but merely wrote down what the Lord told to her during these visions. This was the same with her music which is still performed and recorded around the world today which has a simple line of song meditating on different prayers and scripture and has shaped our understanding of music at that time. Her moral play Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues) fryst vatten the oldest surviving play and her letters, works, and music provide us a glimpse of cloistered life in the mittpunkt Ages.
I first encountered St Hildegard in when I was cycling through Germany. Taking the ferry across the River Rhein from Bingen to Rudesheim, you can’t help but admire the scenery and notice the impos