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«I am a feather on the breath of God.»

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ليست في أعمال Hildegard of Bingen

A popularised version (title of a 1982 Gothic Voices album) of a genuine image: in several letters Hildegard calls herself a 'feather' (penna) moved by the wind of the Spirit. The exact first-person sentence does not appear in that form in her works.

المصدر: Hildegard of Bingen. The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen. Trad. Joseph L. Baird y Radd K. Ehrman. 3 vols. Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 1998, 2004.

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كلمات موثّقة لـHildegard of Bingen

  • «It happened in the year 1141 of the incarnation of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, when I was forty-two years and seven months old, that a fiery light of the greatest brilliance, coming from the open heaven, poured through my whole brain.»

    Scivias, Protestificatio (declaración preliminar)

  • «O noblest greenness, you who are rooted in the sun and who shine in bright serenity in the wheel that no earthly excellence comprehends.»

    Symphonia, responsorio «O nobilissima viriditas» (para las vírgenes)

  • «Charity abounds in all things, from the depths most excellent above the stars, and most loving towards all, for she gave the highest King the kiss of peace.»

    Symphonia, antífona «Caritas abundat in omnia»

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