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Feastday: September 17
Died: 1179

Hildegarde at Bockelheim, Germany, in 1098. Afflicted with fragile health as a child, she was placed in the care of her aunt, Blessed Jutta, who lived as a recluse. Jutta eventually formed a community of nuns, and Hildegarde joined the group, becoming prioress of the house when Jutta died in 1136. Hildegarde moved the community to Rupertsburg, near Bingen on the Rhine, and she established still another convent at Eibengen around the year 1165, overcoming great opposition on many occasions. Hildegarde was known for visions and prophecies, which at her spiritual directors request, she recorded. They were set down in a work called Scivias and approved by the archbishop of Mainz and Pope Eugenius III at the recommendation of St. Bernard of Clairvaux. Living in a turbulent age, Hildegarde put her talents to work in the quest for obtaining true justice and peace. She corresponded with four popes, two emperors, King Henry II of England, and famous clergy. Her pronouncements attracted the fancy of the populace-drawing down upon her both acclaim and disparagement. Hildegarde wrote on many subjects. Her works included commentaries on the Gospels, the Athanasian Creed, and the Rule of St. Benedict as well as Lives of the Saints and a medical work on the well-being of the body. She is regarded as one of the greatest figures of the 12th century the first of the great German mystics as well as a poet, a physician, and a prophetess. She has been compared to Dante and to William Blake. This remarkable woman of God died on September 17, 1179. Miracles were reported at her death, and she was proclaimed as a Saint by the multitudes. She was never formally canonized, but her name was inserted in the Roman Martyrology in the fifteenth century.

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carrie
1 year ago
Please send me highest unified universal guidence, clarity, greatest Acquired wisdom, and "COURAGE", with greatly needed additional faith, and hope, on all levels. Please send me much needed preservence over the greatest adversity. Please allow, my "delicate spirit, to attain, the additional greatly needed allowances and resources, that I need in order to move forward, on all levels, universally.

Please allow my delicate spirit, that greatly needed resources to achieve much desired resources, and much desired growth with opportunity, with desired deliquency and ease on all levels.

Please allow me greatest hope, on all levels universally. Please allow my delicate spirit, to move to the next level, off desire, with greatest human dignity, and much desired opportunity on all

Please give me the greatest opportunity amist all odds, too achieve greatest success and growth over much adversity, on all levels. Please allow my delicate spirit, to move to the next level, off desire, with fairness and greatly needed ease on all levels.
Allan Stairs
1 year ago
I know somebody with that name and who has a similar dynamique character ___ loving everyone she meets . Could vertu be an influence that continues in some cases going down from mothers to daughters over the ages ?
Phylls West
1 year ago
There where great gifts given to St Hildegarde from God, it is a pity that still today the Church still places Women as second class to that of men.
"Was it not Marys flesh that restored the world." and thats a quote from St. Hildegarde.
How come her work is not related to the arts, as in Wendy Slatkins Women Artists in History From Antiquity to Present?
How she was an influance to others in her convent, an insperation to those in relation to there art?
So far here at the site of The Universal Church you still slant most of Christian History towards the male few. When do we get to hear the positive of women in the cloisters.
Mauricio Ordóñez
2 years ago
¡Cinismo! Cinismo de J.Christian de rezar con Roberto Bellarmino por el alma de Giordano Bruno, si fue él mismo quien lo asesinó. Completamente desquiciado.
cat5787
2 years ago
This info on Hildegarde and the info on Hildegard de Bingen should be combined.

St. Hildegard is overdue for formal canonization. She should be recognized as a doctor of the church for her extensive studies and writings regarding natural medicine.
mpiima cissy
2 years ago
Thank u about the information on saints. But usually you tell us about the wonders of the saints but not what he actually did - how he lived his daily life to become one so that we can also learn from them. Please tell us more of their failures and weaknesses and how they overcame them so that we can also identify with them and slowly by slowly change ourselves. Of course I know we cannot be them but at least we can try to imitate them. Thank you.
Lv. Cissy
J Christian
4 years ago
Saint Hildegarde von Bingen pray for us all; pray with Saint Robert Bellarmine for the soul of Giordano Bruno; pray for the smooth acquisitions of sciences in Philosophy, Theology and technics; pray for just ends of dissembling politicians who hide their motives & evils in repeated trances; pray for migraine sufferers who see not Jacob's ladder Way; pray for healing musics, words and tones replete; pray for Yahweh's Son Jesus and Their Holy Paraclete, Amen It is funny Sophia, how the Church never made her a Saint and yet she is One -- perhaps this is a miracle of administrative sorts, Selah Well, yes, they never declared Jesus a Saint, either, Alleluia When Rumi was espied as a boy, walking behind his father, a mystic saw them and said, "There walks a lake, followed by the Ocean..." Glory Be to the Father

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