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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Hildegard of Bingen
DESCRIPTION:ST HILDEGARD OF BINGEN \nFrom Butler’s Lives of the Saints1 \n◊◊◊ \nHildegard of Bingen would have been remarkable in any century. In her \nown century her achievements and her influence\, particularly as a woman\, were \nextraordinary. She was born at Bermersheim…in the summer of 1098. Apart \nfrom the fact that her father\, Hildebert of Bermersheim\, was a nobleman and \npossibly in the service of the bishop of Speyer\, little is known of her family \nbackground. When she was only eight years old\, she was sent to be educated by \na recluse\, Blessed Jutta\, who was living at Disbodenberg in an anchorhold. Over \nthe years girls came to join her and Jutta gave them the Rule of St Benedict. \nHildegard was a delicate child\, but…her inner life was far from ordinary. \nFrom the age of three she experienced visions or revelations that in the early \nstages caused her pain and embarrassment. The revelations continued into her \nadult life\, and she experienced chronic ill health. \nIn 1136 Jutta died\, and Hildegard became abbess in her place. Her \nrevelations and visions were still causing her anxiety. Her writings were \nsubmitted to the archbishop of Mainz. The archbishop and his theologians \nconcluded that her visions were “from God”. Over the years with the help of a \nyoung monk named Volmar and others she produced her principal work\, “Know \nthe Ways of the Lord”. \nIn 1147 the archbishop of Mainz passed Hildegard’s work to the pope\, \nBlessed Eugenius III. With the advice of his close advisors\, including St Bernard \nof Clairvaux\, the pope told her to live with her sisters faithfully observing the \nRule. \nHildegard and eighteen nuns moved to the Rupertsberg sometime \nbetween 1147 and 1150. She found time to research and write on subjects that \nfascinated her – a book on natural history\, another on medicine. There was also \nher voluminous correspondence\, a substantial part of which has survived. \nPeople from all walks of life came to consult her\, but at the same time there were \nothers who denounced her as fraudulent\, mad or worse. \nHeidegard continued to the end of her life to stand her ground against \nwhat she saw as the wrong use of authority. When over eighty she was frail \nphysically but continued to write\, advise\, instruct her nuns and encourage all \nwho came to her for help\, until she died peacefully at St Rupert’s on September \n17th\, 1179. Miracles\, which had also been recorded during her life\, were \nimmediately reported at her tomb. In 1324 Pope John XXII gave permission for \npublic veneration\, and she appears in local martyrologies from the fifteenth \ncentury. Her relics\, which were taken to Eibingen during the Thirty Years War\, \nwere recognized in 1489 and again in 1498. Although she has never been \nformally canonized\, she is named as a saint in the Roman Martyrology\, and \nseveral German dioceses commemorate her on this day.
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