Called the "Sibyl of the Rhine," Hildegard of Bingen became the most famous mystic and prophet of her time. Her writings and music are still found in all major bookstores, and no woman saint is more popular in her native Germany. When she was eight, she was placed in a convent, where she later became abbess. She was a biblical exegete, visionary, preacher, composer, and herbalist, who corresponded with the major royalty and church leaders of her day, including four popes. Her greatest vision came when she was forty-two, which is recorded in her famous Scrivias, or Know the Ways of the Lord, a treatise whose magnificence rivals William Blake's visionary work. Hildegard's spiritual writings found approval during her lifetime, and her lectures on the spiritual life drew crowds from all over Europe. She wrote prolifically, on topics as varied as history and drama, polictics and and liturgical poetry. Her monastery joyfully sang the praises she wrote. During the last year of her life, when she was eighty-one, she entered into a conflict with ecclesiastical authorities because she allowed a young man who had been excommunicated to be buried in her abbey cemetery, and her convent was placed under interdict. It is probably that, for this reason, Hildegard was never formally canonized, although she is found in all major saints' books and her cult was approved locally because of so many miracles reported at her tomb.

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From the The Monastic Diurnal, or The Day Hours of the Monastic Breviary: In Latin and English, Edited According to the Reforms of Pope Pius X (H. Dessain: Michelin, Belgium, 1952) here is the Collect for the Office of St. Hildegarde. Attached is the German text from Das vollständige Römische Meßbuch lateinisch und deutsch mit allgemeinen und besonderen Einführungen im Anschluß an das Meßbuch von Anselm Schott O.S.B. herausgegeben von Benediktinern der Erzabtei Beuron (Freiburg: Verlag Herder, 1956).