Hildegarde de Bingen

Hildegarde de Bingen , born the September 16th 1098 in Bermersheim (Hesse) and deceased the September 17th 1179 with Rupertsberg (close to Bingen), was a nun Bénédictin E and a Mystique.

Biography

Tenth child of a noble family very believing, it was devoted to the Lord as of his more young age. At the eight years age, it enters to the convent of the bénédictines of Disibodenberg on the the Rhine, in the diocese of Mainz, for its instruction under the supervision of Jutta de Sponheim. She pronounces her perpetual wishes and receives the monastic veil of the hands of the bishop Otto de Bamberg, towards the age of fourteen or fifteen years.

When Jutta dies in 1136, Hildegarde is elected abbess of Disibodenberg, at the 38 years age.

She starts at 43 years to consign her visions, which she has since childhood, in the Scivias (of Latin sci vias Dei “knows the ways of God”). In 1147, it founds the monastery of Rupertsberg.

The approval of the pope Eugene III at the time of a synod joined together with Trier fine 1147 - beginning 1148 encouraged Hildegarde to continue its literary activity. It completes the Scivias , composed in 1151. Then she writes the Liber vitae meritorum between 1158 and 1163 and the Liber divinorum operum between 1163 and 1174. In 1165, it founds the monastery of Eibingen.

Works

Literature

The majority of its writings are joined together in a large book (the Riesencodex ) preserved at the regional library of Hesse to Wiesbaden in Germany. Bernard de Clairvaux itself ensured to him that its visions were Grâce S of the sky. List of its writings:

Scivias seu View (1141-1151)
Liber divinorum operum simplicis hominis (1163-1173/1174)
Liber vitae meritorum (1158-1163)
Solutiones triginta octo quaestionum
Explanatio Regulae S. Benedicti
Explanatio Symboli S. Athanasii
Vita S. Ruperti
Vita S. Disibodi
Physica, sive Subtilitatum diversarum naturarum creaturarum libri novem
Hymnodia coelestis.
Ignota lingua, cum versione Latina
Tractatus of Sacramento altaris.
Homeliae LVIII in Evangelia
Libri simplicis and compositae medicinae.

translated Works: (Editions Jerome Million)

the book of subtleties (I and II: translation Pierre Monat, 1996)
causes and remedies (translation Pierre Monat, 2005)
the symphony of the celestial harmonies (Translation Rebecca Lenoir and Christophe Carraud, 2003)

Music

Hildegarde composed more than 70 songs, Hymne S and sequences, whose some were the subject of recent recordings by whole of medieval music: Ave generosa , Columba aspexit , O presul vere civitatis … This last is a homage to Disibod, monk Irish of the 7th century founder of the Monastère doubles of Disibodenberg, whose Hildegarde was the biographer. She also composed a liturgical drama entitled Ordo virtutum , which comprises eighty-two melody S and which puts in scene the tuggings of the heart between the demon and the virtues.

Linguistics

Hildegarde is also known in the field Linguistique because it worked out a artificial Langue or built Langue written and spoken by it only, the Lingua Ignota .

Worship

Hildegarde was among the first Saint S for which an official procedure of Canonization was applied, but the procedure was so long that none of the four attempts at canonization was concluded its (the last proceeded in 1244, under the pope Innocent IV), and Hildegarde remained happy. However, it was very quickly qualified the holy one by the people, and at the end of the 16th century, as it was the object of a devotion of long time, its name was registered with the Roman Martyrologe without another formality, with the title of holy.

Local festival the September 17th.

The Châsse containing the Relique S of Hildegarde is preserved in the monastery of Eibingen close to Rüdesheim (on the the Rhine).

Evocations in the popular culture

Among the characters of the album “Keep Parades” the wise one of the ghetto , cartoon of Lewis Trondheim, figure a certain abbess Huldegarde de Tübingen appears, whose name seems a reference to Hildegarde de Bingen.

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