It happened on SEPTEMBER 17

1179

Liturgical festivity of Saint Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179) and date of her death in the monastery of Rupertsberg in Germany. The catholic devotion for Hildegard of Bingen, a German Benedictine mystic, was popularized on May 10th 2012 by Benedict XVI, who, on October 7th of the same year, declared her Doctor of the Church. She was a keen observer of natural events, interested in  botany, physiology and natural medicine.  Different people tried to get opinions and advices from her, given her unique mystical gifts, peculiar wisdom, and good sense driven by an intelligent relationship with nature. She was in contact with  popes Eugenius III, Anastasius IV, Adrian IV and Alexander III.

 
1621

St. Robert Bellarmine, born 1542, died. Today is his liturgical feast. A Jesuit theologian, the archbishop of Capua (1602), and a cardinal, he is also a Doctor of the Church. He taught at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and later at the Roman College. Pope Clement VIII called him to serve in the Holy Office. Bellarmine had a prudent disposition and, observing events in the first few years of the Galileo affair, developed a deep regard for science. After the 1616 decree that requested heliocentrism be taught only ex supposition, he encouraged Galileo to provide scientific proof of heliocentrism. After Bellarmine’s death, the climate of dialogue he had encouraged dissipated, as evident in the pressure put on Galileo in 1633 to renounce heliocentrism.

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