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English: The Church, the Bride of Christ and Mother of the Faithful in Baptism. Illustration to Scivias II.3, fol. 51r from the 20th-Century facsimile of the Rupertsberg Manuscript, circa 1165-1180.
Deutsch: Hildegardis-Codex, sogenannter Scivias-Codex, Szene:
Mutterschaft aus dem Geiste und dem Wasser.
Artist: Meister des Hildegardis-Codex.
Date: Deutsch: Um 1165.
Date: English: Circa 1165.
Current location: Benediktinerinnen Abtei Sankt Hildegard,
Eibingen (bei Rüdesheim), Deutschland.
Notes: Deutsch: Buchmalerei, aus Kloster Rupertsberg,
nur als handgefertigtes Faksimile von 1927 erhalten.
Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project:
10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002.
ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
Permission: [1].
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Saint Hildegard of Bingen, O.S.B., (German: Hildegard von Bingen; Latin: Hildegardis Bingensis) (1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sibyl of the Rhine, 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.
She wrote theological, botanical and medicinal texts, as well as letters, Liturgical songs, and poems, while supervising brilliant miniature illuminations.
Although the history of her formal recognition as a Saint is complicated, she has been recognised as a Saint by parts of the Roman Catholic Church for centuries. On 7 October 2012, Pope Benedict XVI named her a Doctor of the Church.
O Vis aeternitatis
She wrote theological, botanical and medicinal texts, as well as letters, Liturgical songs, and poems, while supervising brilliant miniature illuminations.
Although the history of her formal recognition as a Saint is complicated, she has been recognised as a Saint by parts of the Roman Catholic Church for centuries. On 7 October 2012, Pope Benedict XVI named her a Doctor of the Church.
O Vis Aeternitatis.
Hildegard von Bingen
(1098 - 1179).
Available on YouTube at
Vis aeternitatis
que omnia ordinasti in corde tuo,
per verbum tuum omnia creata sunt
sicut voluisti,
et ipsum verbum tuum
induit carnem
in formatione illa
que educta est de Adam.
Vis aeternitatis
Vis aeternitatis.
Power of Eternity
you who ordered all things in your heart,
through your Word all things are created just as you willed,
and your very Word
calls forth flesh
in the shape
which was drawn from Adam.
Power of Eternity
Power of Eternity.
