PRESENTING: “VISION” Sunday, February 17 at 1:00 pm
A movie on the life of Hildegard von Bingen, who was canonized and made a Doctor of the Church in 2012 by Benedict XVI. Sunday, February 17 at 1:00 pm in the Paulist Center Chapel.
Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist. In a staggering performance, actor Barbara Sukowa portrays Bingen’s fierce determination to expand the responsibilities of women within the order, even as she fends off outrage from some in the Church over the visions she claims to receive from God.
Von Bingen was charged with heresy and threatened with excommunication from her order by the Abbot of her Benedictine community. Lushly shot in the original medieval cloisters of the fairytale-like German countryside, Vision is a profoundly inspirational portrait of a woman who has emerged from the shadow of history as a forward-thinking and iconoclastic pioneer of faith, change and enlightenment.
