Year of Hildegard of Bingen


01.06.2011 – 31.08.2011
Tyniec

The leitmotif of the 2011 cultural events at the Tyniec Abbey is the work of the 12th-century Benedictine nun Hildegard of Bingen on the Rhine — a mystic, visionary, composer, and physician, and a spiritual authority of her time. The series aims to bring closer this extraordinary female figure, venerated as a saint although never officially recognized as such by the Church, as well as her…