St. Hildegard of Bingen, whose feast day we celebrate today, is an excellent role model for businesswomen. She was the Catholic doyenne of female leadership, entrepreneurship, and management of her age. She was a foundress, abbess, prolific author, poet and composer. In 1165, seventeen years after founding Rupertsberg Abbey and in response to increasing vocations, she purchased an Augustinian monastery in Eibingen. She took on the leadership of Ebingen and, until her death in 1179, continued to visit Rupertsberg twice weekly by crossing the Rhine. St. Hildegard’s spirituality was rich with gifts of prophecy, visions, and viriditas (“greenness”). Her viriditas illuminated a style of creativity with much value for the modern Catholic businesswoman.