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HILDEGARD, ST (1098-1179) , German abbess and mystic, was born of noble parents at Bockelheim, in the countship of Sponheim, in Iog8, and from her eighth year was educated at the Benedictine
secret , nor was it until she had reached her forty
Bernard
letter cordially acknowledging her as a prophetess of God, but also successfully advocated her recognition as such by his friend and former pupil Pope Eugenius III. in the synod of Treves (1148). In the same year Hildegard migrated along with eighteen of her nuns to a new convent on the Rupertsberg near Bingen, over which she presided during the remainder of her life. By means of voluminous correspondence, as well as by extensive journeys,in the course of which she was unwearied in the exercise of her gift of prophecy, she wielded for many years an increasing influence upon her contemporariesan influence doubtless due to the fact that she was imbued with the most widely diffused feelings and beliefs, fears and hopes, of her time. Amongst her correspondents were Popes Anastasius IV. and Adrian IV., the emperors Conrad
Her biography, which was written by two contemporaries, Godefridus and Theodoricus, was first printed at Cologne in 1566. Hildegard's writings, besides the Scivias already mentioned and first printed in Paris in 1513, include the Liber divinorum operum, Explanatio regulae S. Benedicti, Physica and the Letters, &c., are contained in Migne, Patr. Lai, t. excvii., and in Cardinal Pitra's Analecta sacra spicilegio Solesmensi parata; Nova S. Hildegardis opera (Paris, 1882). For a modern study of the saint's, writings, see Sainte Hildegarde by Pal Franche, " Les Saints " series (Paris, 1903) ; and U. Chevalier, Repertoire des sources historiques, bio.-bibl. 2153.End of Article: HILDEGARD, ST (1098-1179) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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