Let There Be Light: Based on the Visionary Spirituality of Hildegard of Bingen

by Hildegard von Bingen

This book is an invitation to experience the light of God's wisdom through the visions of Hildegard of Bingen. Let the power of her insights lead you out of the darkness and into the light of divine love.

216 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1997

About the author

born circa 1098

People revered Saint Hildegard von Bingen, German nun, composer, and a visionary, during her own lifetime; she set her poems to music and also wrote works on medicine and natural history.

People also knew this philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, and polymath as Sibyl of the Rhine. Her fellows elected her as a magistra in 1136; she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165. The Ordo Virtutum exemplifies early liturgical drama.

Her theological and botanical texts, letters, liturgical songs, and arguably the oldest morality play, well survive; she meanwhile supervised brilliant miniature Illuminations.