Saint Hildegard of Bingen--Sept 17

Saint Hildegard of Bingen, O.S.B. was a German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath.Elected a magistra by her fellow nuns in 1136, she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165. One of her works as a composer, the Ordo Virtutum, is an early example of liturgical drama and arguably the oldest surviving morality play. Sept 17