Quote of the day
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future
Hildegard of Bingen
Born: 1098
Died: September 17, 1179 (aged 81)
Bio: Hildegard of Bingen, O.S.B., also known as Saint Hildegard and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath.
Known for:
- Scivias
- Ordo Virtutum
- Holistic healing
- The book of the rewards of life
- The letters of Hildegard of Bingen