She has been considered by a number of scholars to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany. [4] Hildegard's convent at Disibodenberg elected her as magistra (mother superior) …

Dec 5, 2025 · St. Hildegard was a Benedictine abbess, writer, poet, and composer who lived in 12th-century Germany. She had numerous prophetic and mystical visions during her life and is …

May 30, 2019 · Hildegard of Bingen (also known as Hildegarde von Bingen, lived 1098 to 1179) was a Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, and polymath proficient in philosophy, musical …

Benedictine, nun, visionary, prophetess, tireless reformer of the Church, and renewer of monastic life; author in theology, medicine, cosmology, natural sciences, and herbalism; poet, …

St. Hildegard of Bingen was declared a doctor of the Church in 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI. She is first in a line of mystical saints from Germany; Hildegard was a poet, prophet, physician, and …

Sep 16, 2024 · The Catholic Church celebrates Saint Hildegard of Bingen for her profound spirituality, holiness, and numerous gifts. She was truly a Renaissance woman of her time.

Dec 17, 2025 · Saint Hildegard of Bingen was a remarkable woman who fulfilled many roles in her lifetime. A Benedictine nun, she became a rather well-known mystic whom Pope Eugene III …

Saint Hildegard of Bingen was a nun, writer, and composer in the 1100s. She had visions from God, led other women in faith, and wrote books about healing, nature, and prayer.

Hildegard artic­u­lated a vision of God as a pulsating life-force present in our lives, inter­preted as essen­tially femi­nine. Viriditas is a guiding theme, used constantly in her works.

The humanists celebrated Hildegard as the first great woman in literary history. During the Reformation, Hildegard was often invoked because she had used drastic words to complain …