The Ways of the Lord - Hildegard of Bingen Bernard

The Ways of the Lord - Hildegard of Bingen BernardEvery so often there lives among us someone who seems to be able to reach into a river of knowledge that is somewhere beyond our normal experience. During the twelfth century, at a time when heretics and witches were burned at the stake, Hildegard of Bingen was such a person. She wrote prolifically, publicly preached monastic reform, founded two nunneries, and was embroiled in the politics surrounding popes and anti popes. Her writings elucidate the

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bringing to life the ancient streets and crowded marketplaces through which Mary and the Apostles journeyed as they built a Church that lasts even to our day

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