Virtutes
The Sweet Warrior and the Spring's Victory
The soul addresses Christ as a sweet warrior who conquered the devouring wolf through the torrent of the spring, and the virtues joyfully join him in battle against the deceiver.
O sweetest warrior, in the torrent of the spring who swallowed up the ravenous wolf — O glorious crowned one, we gladly fight alongside you against this deceiver.
Read the original Latin
O dulcissima bellatrix, in torrente fonte qui absorbuit lupum rapacem – o gloriosa coronata, nos libenter militamus tecum contra illusorem hunc.
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