Sunday, October 6, 2013

Battle of the Mystics: St Hildegard of Bingen, composer, abess, mystic voted best in the tri-state.

Saint Hildegard of Bingen,  also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mysticBenedictine abbessvisionary, and polymath.She founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165. One of her works as a composer, the Ordo Virtutum, is an early example of liturgical drama and arguably the oldest surviving morality play.
She wrote theological, botanical and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, and poems, while supervising miniature illuminations in the Rupertsberg manuscript of her first work, Scivias.
Although the history of her formal recognition as a saint is complicated, she has been recognized as a saint by parts of the Roman Catholic Church for centuries. On 7 October 2012, Pope Benedict XVI named her a Doctor of the Church.
Her musical compositions are absolutely ethereal magic.  And you didn't have to sit on her.

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