Photo (excerpt) by Ralph Hammann via Wikimedia Commons; licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 St. Hildegard of Bingen was a 12th-century German nun, but she was also a writer, composer of chants, mystic, and ...
This music was written by Hildegard of Bingen, who lived nearly 1000 years ago in Germany. Inspiration came to her as visions that only she could see, and she believed they were from God.
Campbell, Nathaniel M. 2023. “O Jewel Resplendent”: The Virgin Mary and Her Analogues in Hildegard of Bingen’s Scivias. Religions, Vol. 14, Issue. 3, p. 342.