Christian feast day: Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen

German nun and polymath (c. 1098 – 1179)

Hildegard of Bingen OSB, also known as the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner during the High Middle Ages. She is one of the best-known composers…