St. Hildegard of Bingen

ARTIST: Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS

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The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.
―Saint Hildegard of Bingen

Her feast day is September 17.

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Benedictine abbess and mystic called "the Sybil of the Rhine." She was born in Bockelheim, Germany. Sickly as a child, she was given to an aunt, Jutta, for care in a hermitage near Speyer. She founded Rupertsberg Convent near Bingen around 1147. She was one of the first great German mystics, a poetess, and prophetess. Her music and poetry have remained popular over the centuries, all part of her recorded mystical experiences. Her best known work is Scivias, written between 1141 and 1151, relating twenty six of her visions.

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