[Blunderov]
Glorious music.
CD : Hildegard von Bingen "Celestial Stairs" (ensemble fur fruhe musik
Augsburg, Christophorus CHR 77205
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Hildegard of Bingen: " We have also heard mention of a ritual of yours
that is not customary. It appears that, in the choir during the psalm
service on feast days , your nuns wear their hair loose and adorn
themselves with pure white veils of silk, the hems of which reach to the
floor. Their brows are encircled by bands of braid with gold worked into
them, into which crosses are harmoniously woven on either side and at
the back and the image of the Lamb over the brow[...] All this although
the first Shepherd of the Church forbids such things, for he warns and
says: Women shall conduct themselves seemingly and not plait their hair
or adorn themselves with gold and pearls and costly robes[...]
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Warm regards
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