Saint of the day and spiritual life #bingen

Saint Hildegard of Bingen was born on September 16, 1098, in Bermersheim, near Alzey, Germany. Born into a noble family, she was entrusted at a very young age to a religious life, under the guidance of Jutta of Sponheim, at the Benedictine monastery of Disibodenberg. From childhood, Hildegard benefited from mystical visions, but for a long time, out of humility and fear, she hesitated to speak of them. Upon Jutta's death, Hildegard became abbess of the convent and had a great influence on the spiritual and intellectual life of her time. In 1150, she founded the monastery of Rupertsberg near Bingen, and later that of Eibingen