Saint Hildegard with Salve Pot of Unguent Antique Religious Statues; Saint Hildegard of Bingen Virgin, Doctor of the Church
September 17
Kreuznach, castle of Böckenheim, Germany, 1098 - Bingen, Germany, September 17, 1179
She was born in Bermesheim in 1098, the last of ten children. Her baptismal name, literally translated, means """"she who is bold in battle"""". Between 1147 and 1150, on the mountain of Saint Rupert near Bingen, on the Rhine, Hildegard founded the first monastery and, in 1165, the second, on the opposite bank of the river. She is a delicate person and prone to illness; nevertheless, she reaches the age of 81, facing a life full of work, struggles and spiritual contrasts, tempered by divine appointments. Figure, intellectually far-sighted and spiritually strong, her visions, transcribed in notes and then in organic books, make her famous. She is asked for advice and help by personalities of the time. Her contacts with Federico Barbarossa, Filippo d'Alsazia, san Bernardo, Eugenio III are documented. In the years of maturity it undertakes numerous trips in order to visit monasteries, that had asked its intervention and in order to preach in the public squares, like to Treviri, Metz and Colony. He dies on September 17, 1179. (Future)
Etymology: Hildegard = courageous in battle, from German
In the monastery of Rupertsberg near Bingen in Hesse, Germany, St. Hildegard, a virgin, who, an expert in natural sciences, medicine and music, expounded and piously described in several books the mystical contemplations of which she had had experience.
September 17
Kreuznach, castle of Böckenheim, Germany, 1098 - Bingen, Germany, September 17, 1179
She was born in Bermesheim in 1098, the last of ten children. Her baptismal name, literally translated, means """"she who is bold in battle"""". Between 1147 and 1150, on the mountain of Saint Rupert near Bingen, on the Rhine, Hildegard founded the first monastery and, in 1165, the second, on the opposite bank of the river. She is a delicate person and prone to illness; nevertheless, she reaches the age of 81, facing a life full of work, struggles and spiritual contrasts, tempered by divine appointments. Figure, intellectually far-sighted and spiritually strong, her visions, transcribed in notes and then in organic books, make her famous. She is asked for advice and help by personalities of the time. Her contacts with Federico Barbarossa, Filippo d'Alsazia, san Bernardo, Eugenio III are documented. In the years of maturity it undertakes numerous trips in order to visit monasteries, that had asked its intervention and in order to preach in the public squares, like to Treviri, Metz and Colony. He dies on September 17, 1179. (Future)
Etymology: Hildegard = courageous in battle, from German
In the monastery of Rupertsberg near Bingen in Hesse, Germany, St. Hildegard, a virgin, who, an expert in natural sciences, medicine and music, expounded and piously described in several books the mystical contemplations of which she had had experience.
