Pope Benedict XIV has indicated he plans to canonize the 12th-century female composer, mystic, author, physician and abbess Hildegard von Bingen and then proclaim her a Doctor of the Church in October ...

Saints alive — St. Hildegard of Bingen, a Benedictine nun who lived in medieval Germany, speaks loudly and clearly 800 years later to a Boulder playwright and musician. The 12th-century mystic and ...

The first composer in the Western canon whose name we know and whose voice continues to exert considerable contemporary resonance was a woman — the 12 th century Benedictine abbess Hildegard of Bingen ...

Hymn of Hildegard O Fronden Virga O Quam Mirabilis Grace Placement and Resolve O Pastor Animarum Cherubim's Sword O Cruor Sanguinis ...