Chapter 42OrdV.1.42
Virtutes
The Glorious Lady Who Surpasses the World
The virtues praise the glorious lady who bears Christ's struggles, tramples the world, and dwells in heaven as more than conqueror.
O glorious lady, you always carry the struggles of Christ, O great strength, you who trample the world underfoot — and so you dwell in heaven as more than conqueror.✦
Read the original Latin
O gloriosa domina, tu semper habes certamina Christi, o magna virtus, que mundum conculcas, unde etiam victoriose in celo habitas.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Rom.8.37 — No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
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