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I am a medievalist, a social studies teacher at Knox Central High School, and an adjunct instructor in history at Union Commonwealth University. My research includes medieval theologies of history, text/image relationships in visionary and mystical texts, and the writings of the twelfth-century Doctor of the Church, St. Hildegard of Bingen. I am also a translator of medieval Latin and German texts, especially as relate to my research. My translation of Hildegard's Book of Divine Works is available from Catholic University of America Press here. I completed a Master's in Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame in 2010, a Fulbright Fellowship in Germany in 2008, and a B.A. in Classics and German at Boston College in 2007.

Saturday, September 17, 2022

O prophetissa oecologica: A Chronogram for the Feast of St. Hildegard of Bingen

Scivias 3.12: The Last Judgement
Rupertsberg MS, fol. 225r
o prophetIssa oeCoLogICa,
eLeMenta CVnCta,
propter praVa opera nostra sVbVersa,
qVereLas sVas
qVasI aegrIs et strepItIs VoCIbVs
In VIsIone tVa proferVnt:
ora pro nobIs,
Vt spIrItVs nostrI
VIrtVtIbVs VIresCentes
pro saLVte CreatVrae operentVr.

O prophetess of ecology,
all the elements,
overturned by our perverse deeds,
utter their complaints
as with sick and strident voices
in your sight:
pray for us,
that our spirits,
growing green with the virtues,
might act for the health of creation.
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