Stories of the Saints by Carey Wallace

Author:Carey Wallace
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Published: 2020-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

HiLDegard Of Bingen

u 1098–1179 u

Location Germany

Emblem books

Feast day September 17

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When Hildegard was a little girl, growing up in a small German town beside a river, she started to see things that seemed like dreams, even when she was wide awake.

She saw glowing figures walk around her, and she felt a flame in her heart that didn’t burn but warmed her like the sun. And she didn’t just see things in her visions. She heard and smelled things that weren’t of this world, touched them and tasted them.

So Hildegard’s parents took her to live in a forest monastery, with a woman named Jutta, who also had visions.

In the monastery, Jutta taught Hildegard to read and write. Hildegard also learned to play instruments, including a ten-stringed zither. With the other women, she sang psalms and cared for the sick. And Hildegard began to do something else: write her own songs.

When Jutta died, the women at the monastery voted for Hildegard to lead them. Hildegard wanted to live a simpler life, with more freedom from the monks, so she asked for permission to move out of the monastery to a simple building in the woods. But the abbot who ruled the monastery refused.

Hildegard got so sick that she couldn’t leave her bed, or move her arms or legs. “God is unhappy that the abbot won’t let us go to our new home,” she told the other nuns. “That’s why I can’t move.”

“Nonsense!” the abbot said, and charged into her room, to prove that she was faking.

But when he tried to help Hildegard up, she was as heavy as a giant stone. He couldn’t budge her, so he agreed to let Hildegard build a new home in the forest.

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