Bora Katharina

Bora, Katharina, wife of Luther, was born in 1499 in Meissen. Entering a Cistercian convent, she "with eight other nuns" becoming dissatisfied, applied to Luther for assistance, and through him they were liberated in 1523. Two years later she married Luther, and after his death kept boarders for her support. She bore him three sons and three daughters, and was to him, in his own words, "a pious, faithful wife." She died in 1552 at Torgau.