Posted on 01/20/2022 2:51:32 PM PST by nickcarraway
The legacy of Alice von Hildebrand, a close friend and frequent guest on EWTN, lives on in the lives she touched and in the hearts and minds of those she continues to inspire.
Catholic philosopher and longtime professor Alice von Hildebrand died Jan. 14 at the age of 98.
“With sadness suffused by joy, I write to share that our beloved friend and sister Alice von Hildebrand went home to the Lord at 12:25am this morning. She died peacefully at home after a brief illness,” wrote Hildebrand Project Founder and President John Henry Crosby in a Jan. 14 death announcement.
“Those who knew Lily often heard her say that the wick of her candle was growing ever shorter. In fact, she yearned for death — to see the face of Our Lord, to be reunited at last with her husband Dietrich, her parents, her dearest friend Madeleine Stebbins — with the peace that only true innocence and profound faith can grant.”
Von Hildebrand was born Alice Jourdain in Belgium in 1923. She fled Europe during World War II, arriving in New York City in 1940. Soon after, she met renowned personalist philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand. She recalled being immediately impressed by Dietrich’s dedication to truth and wisdom.
“The moment he opened his mouth, I knew that it was what I was looking for: the perfume of the supernatural, the radiant beauty of truth, the unity of all values: truth, beauty, and goodness,” von Hildebrand wrote in her 2014 autobiography, Memoirs of a Happy Failure.
She was a philosophy student of Dietrich’s for several years before the pair were married in 1959.
Von Hildebrand spent the majority of her career teaching philosophy at Hunter College in New York City, beginning in 1947. Though she described the secular college as radically anti-Catholic,
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She was a very good Catholic philosopher
Wow!
She was old for as long as I can remember, a little wisp of a lady. She also adored her famous husband who had passed away. BlackElk’s wife edited (translated, too?) Dietrich’s works.
I’ve heard of Dietrich, but not Alice until now.
I was honored to attend a small talk she gave once. She was hilarious, adorable, honest, charming, and piercingly wise. Her own small book and the books she translated for her husband changed my perspective on life. What a gift she was!
RIP.
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