Hildegard of Bingen

Beloved female saints (1898) (link)

Feast Day September 17

Patron of Musicians, Writers, Natural Scientists, Linguists

Situations Artistic Inspiration, Creativity, Illness

Professions Herbalists, Musicians, Scientists, Writers

Saint Hildegard of Bingen was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, and polymath who lived from 1098 to 1179. She experienced mystical visions from childhood and wrote extensively on theology, natural history, and medicine. She composed over seventy liturgical songs and is considered one of the founders of scientific natural history in Germany.