PROOF THAT GOD IS ADORABLE! HE MADE THIS

Did you know there were mystics who were married? Blessed Anna Maria Taigi (1769-1837) -Wife, Mother and Mystic

Rhoda Wise –AMERICAN Wife, Mother, Mystic, Stigmatic, Catholic convert (1888-1948) -

A Woman of Many Talents Nun Visions Music (chant) Astrology Herbal Medicines and Medical Treatments Wrote an alternative alphabet On May 10, 2012 was declared a saint On 7 October 2012, Pope Benedict XVI named her a Doctor of the Church.

Hildegard’s Works three great volumes of visionary theology; a variety of musical compositions for use in liturgy, as well as the musical morality play Ordo Virtutum; one of the largest bodies of letters (nearly 400) to survive from the Middle Ages, addressed to correspondents ranging from Popes to Emperors to abbots and abbesses, sermons she preached in the 1160s and 1170's  two volumes of material on natural medicine and cures;  an invented language called the Lingua ignota ("unknown language");  various minor works, including a gospel commentary and two works of hagiography. Her first major work, Scivias is most famous

Scivias Scivias is an illustrated work by Hildegard, completed in 1151 or 1152, describing 26 religious visions she experienced. It is the first of three works that she wrote describing her visions.

Illuminations An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration, such as decorated initials, borders and miniature illustrations. In the most strict definition of the term, an illuminated manuscript only refers to manuscripts decorated with gold or silver, but in both common usage and modern scholarship, the term is now used to refer to any decorated or illustrated manuscript from the Western traditions.

Comparable Far Eastern works are always described as painted, as are Mesoamerican works. Islamic manuscripts are usually referred to as illuminated but can also be classified as painted. The majority of surviving manuscripts are from the Middle Ages, although many illuminated manuscripts survive from the Renaissance, along with a very limited number from Late Antiquity. The majority of these manuscripts are of a religious nature.

"Universal Man" illumination from Hildegard's Liber Divinorum Operum, 1165

CHANT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1am5RODzBs At the heart of Hildegard von Bingen's extraordinary creativity was her accomplishment in music. She wrote profusely as no woman before her. Her ingenious talent and motivation drove her to write 77 chants and the first musical drama in history, which she entitled The Ritual of the Virtues. She writes in her autobiographical passages: "I composed and chanted plainsong in praise of God and the saints even though I had never studied either musical notation or singing." Hildegard combined all her music into a cycle called The Symphony of the Harmony of the Heavenly Revelations.

ASSIGNMENT Watch movie Short essay (350 words) on the life and accomplishments of Hildegard.