St. Hildegard

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April 30 · Queen

St. Hildegard

St. Hildegard

Using power to serve.

Traditional feast

April 30
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

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Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. Using power to serve.

Keep their day. Remember them on April 30 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Venerated at Kempten and S. Gall Authority: — The lives of Charlemagne by Eginhardt, the monk of S. Gall, &c.] Charlemagne was married five times. Beauty and virtue guided his choice of a wife more than high birth. After his divorce of Desiderata, a Lombard princess, he wedded Hildegard, a Swabian. It is related that a servant named Taland, enraged at the contempt with which she treated his advances, accused her of infidelity to the emperor, who divorced her also; upon which she retired to Rome, where for some time she led a life of great sanctity, and devoted herself to the care of the sick, until happening to meet with Taland, wandering about blind, she restored him to sight, and the wretched man, struck with remorse, confessed his crime, and led her back to her husband. She became the mother of Charles, who died early, Pepin, a young man of talents, who, after serving in several campaigns, rebelled against his father, and died in prison. Louis, the third son, unfortunately of weaker parts than his brethren, was the only one who survived him.

Feast days

Feast: April 30

Nine days · Free

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Sources & notes

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Credits

Image: Hildegard 1499.jpg · Klosterchronik1499.JPG: Birk, Johannes derivative work: Hic et nunc · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

Image: Klosterchronik1499.JPG: Birk, Johannes derivative work: Hic et nunc, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.