O luce viventi coronata: A Chronogram for the Feast of St. Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard beholds the universe.
Liber Divinorum Operum 1.4
(detail from Lucca, MS 1942, fol. 38r)

o LVCe VIVentI Coronata,
CVIVs VoX qVasI tonItrVI
nos De LangVore nostro
In saLVteM roborat:
ora pro nobIs
et pro aegra orbIs aetate nostrI.

O one crowned with the Living Light,
whose voice as of thunder
strengthens us from our weakness
into health:
pray for us
and for this ailing age of our world.