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Katherina Von Bora
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| Term Paper Title | Katherina Von Bora |
| # of Words | 1626 |
| # of Pages (250 words per page double spaced) | 6.5 |
Katherina Von Bora
Name of Person: Katherina Von Bora
Born: January 29, 1499
Died: December 20, 1552
A simple life, following the word of the Lord, was all this homely little girl, who grew up to be become a nun, knew in life until she met and married one of history’s most influential religious figures, Martin Luther. She came from a small town of Lippendorf in the district of Meissen. Her father, Hans Von Bora was a nobleman of little means. She had three brothers that lived out their lives in a very meager existence and ignored their sister until she became Frau Doktor Luther. There is nothing written about her one and only sister, except that she was a nun at the first convent that Katherina would attend.
Shortly after Katherina was born, her mother died, leaving her to be raised by her father. When Katherina was five years old, her father was to be remarried and did not wish to be burdened by his youngest daughter. Hans dropped Katherina off at the Benedictine convent at Brehna. Katherina adjusted to her life at the convent quickly and began a very strict and disciplined life in the convent. Her day was made up of studying scriptures and a variety of chores that included cleaning and work in their extensive garden. She lived here at this convent until she was nine years old, when her father moved her to the Cistercian convent of Nimbschen near Grimma.
The Cistercian Convent was a much older and stricter cloister. The abbess ruled the nuns and residents of her cloister with an iron fist. Katherina was not allowed to speak with any one or to become friends with any of the nuns or residents. In order to speak to her sister in the same cloister, they would be in a partitioned room, with no physical touch, supervised directly by the abbess. During these years she learned to read and write in German and Latin. This was required because at the time the Bible was written in Latin.
Katherina, now age sixteen, had lived in a cloister most of her life and had little or no knowledge of the outside world. Her life was totally encompassed by God and the convent. That is why at this time she vowed herself to the church and became a nun. This was not an idea that made Katherina extremely happy but would be the best way for her to survive. Katherina was a rather ugly girl by the standards of the day and having been shut up in a convent her entire life, there were no prospective suitors coming to sweep her off her feet.
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