Saint Hildegard Virtual Pilgrimage 2021

(BOULDER, CO August 2021) For a second year in a row, Michael M. Conti Productions presents “Saint Hildegard Virtual Pilgrimage 2021” beginning on Monday, Sept 6 at Noon EST and concluding the day after Saint Hildegard’s Feast Day on Sept 18, 2021.

For twelve days, you’ll experience videos with contemplative spiritual direction from an American follower of Hildegard; new videos that are elegant and divinely inspired from “Saint Hildegard Speaks” stations along the Hildegard Way in Germany; academic and theological short talks on themes in Hildegard’s life.

The 2-days of Virtual Feast Day Events runs September 17 -18, 2021. It starts on September 17th at 1 PM EST, with the ringing of the bells from the Hildegard Haus in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, followed by a sermon by Rev. Dr. Shanon Sterringer. Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox who is the author of Illuminations of Hildegard von Bingen, Hildegard’s Book of Divine Works with Letters and Songs, Hildegard von Bingen, a Saint for Our Times: Unleashing Her Power in the 21st Century, will share some thoughts with us on the theme of this year’s offering: spirituality and creativity as seen through Hildegard’s natural medicine, art, writing and music.

Other scheduled presenters are American writer Mary Sharratt (Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen), founder Dr. Annette Esser (Scivias Institute), children’s author Joyce Ray (Feathers & Trumpets), actor, playwright, composer and singer Grace McLean (In the Green), executive director Karen Cassidy (Hildegard House), writer David M. Dupuis (The Seven Keys of Hildegard), playwright Sarah Riehm (Living Hildegard), spiritual life coach Carl Johann Schroeder, medieval researcher Lauren Cole, artistic director Thomas Edward Morgan (Ars Nova Singers), composer Dr. Chris Piorkowski (The Unruly Mystic Series), singer Susan Lincoln (Singing in the Hildegarden), The Rev. Mary Reaman, and renowned herbalists Brigitte Mars and Kathi Keville (American Herb Association), etc.

This ecumenical online pilgrimage has been created by pilgrim-filmmaker Michael M. Conti, with special contribution from Dr. Annette Esser, Director of the Scivias Institute and author of “Pilgerbuch: Hildegard von Bingen Pilgerwanderweg”. The pilgrimage was filmed during summer 2019 in Nahe district near Frankfurt, Germany.

The 85 mile (137 km) “Hildegard Way” is a trail through the Nahe river region in Rhineland-Palantinate in Germany. The idea for it is an inspiration from Dr. Annette Esser, the founder of Scivias Institute for Art and Spirituality. Dr. Esser speaks in character as “Hildegard” at 10 stations along the Hildegard Way and gives a small glimpse into the many teachings of Saint Hildegard.

Saint Hildegard von Bingen was a 12th-century German Benedictine abbess who founded 2 monastic communities in the Rhineland-Palantine region of Germany and was a polymath active in theology, music, art, medicine, and healing, and philosophy. One of the most influential women in European history, Hildegard is noted as a Christian mystic and prophet and considered to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany. She was formally cannoned by the Vatican in 2012 and is only one of 4 women who have been made a Doctor of the Church.

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Michael M. Conti, the creator behind The Unruly Mystic: Saint Hildegard, journeyed on Hildegard Way as a pilgrim-filmmaker and is sharing these offerings to you.