Hildegard von Bingen (1098—1179) was a visionary abbess and a genuine polymath, composing choral music still widely performed today, as well as texts on our cosmic origins and the care of our bodies through medicine. She travelled widely to preach, respected by all for her intelligence and spiritual insights. Pope Benedict has called her ‘perennially relevant’ and a ‘profound scholar of natural science’.
In this talk I will explore what it means to be ‘relevant’, and what Hildegard may have to offer us today.