Blog
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Homeward Bound: Reflections on the Hildegard Way
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The pilgrimage ends where all pilgrimages end — not at a destination, but in the leaving.
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The Enchanted Forest: Walking to the Rhine at Bingerbrück
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The longest walking day of the pilgrimage — roughly eight miles, through a forest carved with hidden woodland spirits, ending…
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Scholars and Pilgrims: A Day with the Scivias Conference
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Lectures on Hildegard’s psychology and wisdom, then a return to Disibodenberg for a special mass among the ruins.
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Gardens, Vineyards, and the Hildegard Forum
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A skywalk, a Hildegard-inspired garden, a vineyard lunch, and an afternoon at the modern center devoted to keeping her legacy…
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Sponheim and Rupertsberg: Where Hildegard Lived and Died
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A castle, one of the last Romanesque churches from Hildegard’s own lifetime, and the ruins of the monastery she built…
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Saint Hildegard’s Feast Day at Eibingen
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Mass, procession, and the reliquary carried through the streets — the capstone day of the pilgrimage, and the reason its…
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Disibodenberg: The Thin Veil Place
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Nearly forty years of Hildegard’s life unfolded on this hilltop — a sacred site long before the monastery, and long…
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Where the Trail Begins: Idar-Oberstein, Herrstein, and Niederhosenbach
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A gem museum, a church carved into rock, and a two-hour forest walk into the village nearest Hildegard’s birthplace.
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From the Nahe to the Rhine: A Day in Bad Kreuznach and Bingen
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A relaxed morning in Bad Kreuznach’s old town, then a river cruise through the Rhine Gorge in the afternoon.
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Arriving in the Land of Hildegard: Bad Kreuznach
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The pilgrimage begins gently — a slow arrival in Bad Kreuznach, the group’s home base for the days ahead.