Today Christians who follow the Anglican calendar celebrate the feast of Hildegard Von Bingen, one of those exemplars of the Western mystical way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwMfphqbYbk?fs=1Wikipedia gives the outline of her life: (German: Hildegard von Bingen; Latin: Hildegardis Bingensis) (1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a Christian mystic, German Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath.[2] Elected amagistra by her fellow nuns in 1136, she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165. One of her works as a composer, the Ordo Virtutum, is an early example of liturgical drama.[3]
She wrote theological, botanical and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, poems, and the first surviving morality play, while supervising brilliant miniature Illuminations.
Here’s a small sample of her music…
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