Castitas
Virginity in the King's Chamber
Virginity is celebrated as the royal bride who burns sweetly in the king's embrace, kept incorruptible by the sun's light so her noble flower never falls.
O Virginity, you stand in the royal chamber. O how sweetly you burn in the king's embraces, when the sun shines upon you so that your noble flower will never fall. O noble virgin, shadow will never find you in the falling flower!
Read the original Latin
O Virginitas, in regali thalamo stas. O quam dulciter ardes in amplexibus regis, cum te sol perfulget ita quad nobilis flos tuus numquam cadet. O virgo nobilis, te numquam inveniet umbra in cadente flore!
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