In Good Faith: When the runaway nun married the renegade monk

In Good Faith: When the runaway nun married the renegade monk

Hiding among the fish barrels, Katharina von Bora must have realized she would have a remarkable life. A nun dissatisfied with cloistered life, she wrote to Martin Luther, asking for help escaping Nimbschen Abbey. This was no small matter since leaving monastic life was a crime in Saxon Germany for nuns and for anyone abetting them. And it was the only life von Bora had known since her widowed father sent her to be educated at a convent when she…