Hildegard von Bingen: O frondens virga, Antiphona

Blessed Hildegard of Bingen (German: Hildegard von Bingen) (1098 -- 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a Christian mystic, German 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. Attention in recent decades to women of the medieval church has led to a great de