{"id":11508,"date":"2011-09-17T15:07:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T20:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=11508"},"modified":"2011-09-17T17:14:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T22:14:14","slug":"september-17-memorial-of-st-hildegard-of-bingen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/17\/september-17-memorial-of-st-hildegard-of-bingen\/","title":{"rendered":"September 17: Memorial of St. Hildegard of Bingen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the liturgical calendars of most Catholics, September 17\u00a0is the memorial of the great Jesuit (and doctor of the church) Robert Bellarmine (+ 1621).\u00a0 Franciscans mark September 17 as the day on which\u00a0Saint Francis received the stigmata.\u00a0 \u00a0In the regional German calendar, on the other hand, September 17 is first and foremost the memorial of the great twelfth-century visionary, monastic leader, writer, composer, and preacher\u00a0Hildegard of Bingen, who died on this day in 1179.\u00a0 The only problem is that Hildegard was never officially canonized \u2013 or she would in all likelihood be another doctor of the church by now.\u00a0 But when in 1978 the German bishops petitioned Rome to have the honorary title doctor ecclesiae<\/em> conferred on Hildegard, the Vatican\u2019s response was clear: Such an honor could only be conferred upon those properly canonized by Rome in the first place.<\/p>\n

Why on earth was this holy woman never canonized, when in fact Pope Gregory IX had responded positively, in 1228, to a request by the convent of Rupertsberg to inquire into Hildegard\u2019s life with a view toward canonization?\u00a0 Well, to begin with, the men charged with the task of gathering the necessary materials, especially the accounts of witnesses, failed miserably.\u00a0 When late in 1233 they finally dispatched a report to Rome, it lacked fundamental details, e.g., the names of witnesses of Hildegard\u2019s miracles.\u00a0 Pope Gregory then appointed three different men to gather the missing information; these men failed even more grandiosely by, apparently, simply doing nothing.\u00a0 Finally, after a papal inquiry in 1243, a commission provided the necessary details to the initial report — but this detailed documentation simply vanished somewhere between the Rhine valley and Rome. \u00a0Thus ended the official canonization process of Hildegard of Bingen.<\/p>\n

In some ways we are lucky today that the cultural production of \u201cicons\u201d is no longer so closely wedded to Vatican processes and approvals anyway, enabling Hildegard of Bingen\u2019s triumphal advance into contemporary consciousness \u2013 well beyond the confines of the church — to proceed without the help of an official canonization.\u00a0 And yet, we do well not to forget that in celebrating Hildegard of Bingen this September 17, we step beyond the limits of what official liturgical calendars know \u2013 unless of course you follow the German regional calendar on this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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