On Hildegard

March essay

In 1098, almost a thousand years ago, the tenth daughter of a noble family was born in Bermersheim¹ in Germany. Physically frail and afflicted with frequent headaches, she was dedicated to the convent at Disibodenberg as a child oblate² at the age of seven or eight. This girl, Hildegard von Bingen, would prove to be a genius and one of the brightest light…