Hildegard’s Mystical Vision of the Trinity

Today is the feast day of the medieval mystic, saint, and Doctor of the Church, Hildegard of Bingen. She died on September 17, 1179.

I previously wrote a column about Hildegard of Bingen, the “medieval mystic superstar” who, a mere 833 years after her death, was finally officially inscribed in the Catholic Church’s record of saints this past May. On October 7, 2012, Hildegard—along with a relatively unknown 16th-century Spanish mystic called John of Avila—was designated a “Doctor of the Church,”...