Hildegard of Bingen के नाम से प्रचलित
«I am a feather on the breath of God.»
ग़लत श्रेय
निष्कर्ष
यह Hildegard of Bingen की रचनाओं में नहीं है
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.
स्रोत: 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.
जो उन्होंने वास्तव में कहा
Hildegard of Bingen के प्रमाणित वचन
«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»