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(1098 – 1179)

Blessed Hildegard of Bingen (alternatively, German von Bingen or Latin, Bingensis) (September 16, 1098 - September 17, 1179) was a German magistra, monastic leader, mystic, author, and composer of music.

Hildegard was born into a family of nobles in the service of the counts of Sponheim, close relatives of the Hohenstaufen emperors. Because she was a tenth child, and a sickly one from birth, and also perhaps as a political move, at the age of eight Hildegard’s parents sent her as a tithe to the church. Hildegard was put in the care of Jutta, the sister of Count Meinhard of Sponheim, just outside the Disibodenberg monastery in Germany. Jutta was enormously popular and acquired so many followers a small nunnery sprang up around her. Upon Jutta’s death in 1136 Hildegard was chosen magistra of the community, and eventually moved the group to a new monastery on the Rupertsberg at Bingen on the Rhine.

From the time she was very young, Hildegard claimed to have visions. She received a prophetic call from God five years after her election as magistra in 1141 demanding of her, “Write what you see”. At first she was hesitant about writing her visions, holding them inside. She was finally convinced to write by members of her order after falling physically ill from carrying the unspoken burden.

Recent scholarly interest in women in the medieval church has led to a popularization of Hildegard - and particularly of her music.
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  • activewaste

    CONGRATS ON BEING CANONIZED DEAR HILDEGARD <3

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  • uboth

    From Wikipedia: On 10 May 2012, Pope Benedict XVI extended the liturgical cult of St. Hildegard to the universal Church[55] in a process known as "equivalent canonization".

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  • igorgeneration

    <3

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  • Luhwah

    Her love I.

    March 2012

  • Forteski

    Very very sad and melancholic (but splendid, of course).

    March 2012

  • lexear

    i forget how much i love this. and then i remember

    February 2012

  • epp2k

    Apparently Benedict XVI is set to canonize Hildegard von Bingen as a doctor of the Church in october of 2012.

    December 2011

  • progtrance7

    very deep tunes here

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