Saints Hildegard of Bingen

September 17

Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegardis Bingensis

Hildegard of Bingen

Saint Hildegard of Bingen was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, and polymath who lived from 1098 to 1179. She experienced mystical visions from childhood and wrote extensively on theology, natural history, and medicine. She composed over seventy liturgical songs and is considered one of the founders of scientific natural history in Germany.

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