When I first read about St. Hildegard of Bingen, the most recently named female Doctor of the Church, I felt almost as if I had slipped into a fairy tale. Her very name evokes poetry, and her life ...

Opera has housed a long and curious fetish for the convent. Around a century ago, composers couldn’t get enough of lustful, visionary nuns. Although relatively tame next to what was to follow, Puccini ...

St. Hildegard of Bingen is depicted in an icon by Augustinian Father Richard G. Cannuli. Credit: OSV News photo/courtesy of Father Richard Cannuli The New York Times recently published an obituary for ...

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 ...

Die Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern widmet sich Hildegard von Bingen mit drei Konzerten und einer Uraufführung. Sie war Mystikerin, Heilkundige, Theologin, Komponistin – und ...

Hildegard von Bingen ist eine einzigartige Erscheinung in der deutschen Geschichte. Ihre besonderen Heilmethoden legten den Grundstein für eine neue Volksmedizin. Aus diesem Grund wurde sie bereits zu ...

Twenty years ago, Claude and Marie-France Delpech launched a family business in France called “Les Jardins de Sainte-Hildegarde,” selling products inspired by the life of St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098 ...

Pope Francis noted that the German Benedictine abbess, composer and philosopher challenged prevailing restrictions on women. Stained glass window depicting five Benedictine female saints, Saints ...

1 | 2 Bingen im Zeichen der Heiligen - Schiffsfahrt Nach der Ankunft in Frankfurt fahren Sie nach Bingen, wo Sie das Hildegard-Forum auf dem Rochusberg, umgeben von Weinbergen und Obstwiesen, besuchen ...

A relic from St. Hildegard of Bingen, who is the inspiration for a new garden at St. Martha of Bethany Church in Morton Grove, is in the collection of the church’s Shrine of All Saints. A patch of ...