Chapter 23OrdV.1.23
Virtutes
Glad Approach to the Queen
The soul addresses Christ's glorious queen and gentle mediatrix with joyful confidence.
O glorious queen, and O most gentle mediatrix, we come gladly.
Read the original Latin
O gloriosa regina, et O suavissima mediatrix, libenter venimus.
Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues) companion
Let a different Virtue meet you each morning
Chosen Portion walks you through the whole Ordo Virtutum — and Hildegard's Scivias — as free daily devotionals.
The Ordo was performed scene by scene by Hildegard's nuns, and Chosen Portion restores that rhythm — one scene of the Virtues' drama as each day's devotional.
- The complete 84-scene drama, one short scene per day, in modern readable English
- Each portion pairs the scene with its Scripture echoes — 26 references resolved across the play
- Finish Hildegard, then continue with 70+ other works from Europe's royal devotional archive