Plans for a New Foundation
We owe the plan to found a new convent, which would revive the old religious house at Eibingen and also be a link to the one destroyed by the Swedes […]
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New Beginnings of Monastic Life
After four years of work, the monumental building was essentially complete. On September 17th, 1904, twelve Benedictine nuns moved into the new foundation from the Abbey of St Gabriel in […]
The Abbey of St Hildegard in the Second World War
The time of the National Socialist regime and the Second World War brought many trials to the monastic community at the Abbey of St Hildegard. As early as May 1941, […]
The Development of the Abbey after 1945
By July 2nd, 1945 – again the anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone – the Abbey buildings had been sufficiently repaired by the few sisters who had already […]
Encountering the Light
The life of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was also marked by light in all shades and colours until the time of her death, when, according to legend, a radiant light […]
Heaven and Earth as a Mirror of Divine Love
Hildegard’s work had strong visionary and prophetical characteristics, which were totally in line with how she saw herself. For her, divine origin of what she saw and heard in the […]
The Ongoing Battle between Good and Evil
Hildegard composed and wrote the text to her lyrical drama „Ordo virtutum“ (The Play of Forces) in which she shows the ongoing battle between good and evil, happening over and […]
The World as God’s Work of Art
With her third main work, the „Liber divinorum operum“ (World and Man), which she completes in 1174 after 11 years of work, Hildegard scores another big hit. This colossal work […]
The Unity of Salvation and Healing
Hildegard also visualized the human need for redemption totally within the concept of the inseparable unity of cosmology, anthropology and theology. According to Hildegard, the light of divine grace lets […]
The Momentum of the Unvarnished Truth
Hildegard also expressed her prophetic concerns most distinctively in her letters. From her extensive correspondence, 390 letters have come down to us: testimony of her intrepid directness, admonishing concern, refreshingly […]
