Chapter 79OrdV.1.79
Victoria
The Binding of the Ancient Serpent
The companions are called to rejoice because the ancient serpent has been bound.
Rejoice, companions, because the ancient serpent has been bound!
Read the original Latin
Gaudete, a socii, quia antiquus serpens ligatus est!
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