Pope says St. Hildegard of Bingen is model for today
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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — St. Hildegard of Bingen, the 12th-century German mystic, used her gifts to build up the Church at a time of trouble similar to today, Pope Benedict XVI said.
St. Hildegard is relevant today because of "her love for Christ and His Church, which was suffering in her time, too, and was wounded also then by the sins of priests and laypeople," the pope said.
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