September 17th

Saint Hildegard

Saint · Common of Virgins · Bingen, Germany

In the monastery of Mount Saint Rupert near Bingen in Hesse, Saint Hildegard, virgin, who, skilled in the science of nature and of medicine as well as in the art of music, piously set forth and described in her books that which she had come to know through mystical contemplation.

Latin Original

In monastério Montis Sancti Rupérti prope Bíngium in Hássia, sanctae Hildegárdis, virginis, quze, sciéntia rerum natürze et medicínze necnon arte müsica perita, quam mystica contemplatióne expérta erat, pie in libris expósuit ac descrípsit.