A Step at a Time

Katharina Von Bora Widowhood, and Death The death of her husband of 20 happy years was a sudden and hard blow to Katie. Dr. Luther had gone to Mansfeld to settle a dispute among the princes. On the return journey he became ill and stopped to rest in Eisleben, the town of his birth almost 63 years earlier. There he died, in the morning hours of February 18, 1546 among friends and his three sons. After he died, she wrote “He gave so much of himself in service not only to one town or to one country, but to the whole world. Yes, my sorrow is so deep that no words can express my heartbreak, and it is humanly impossible to understand what state of mind and spirit I am in . . . I can neither eat nor drink, not even sleep . . . God knows that when I think of having lost him, I can neither talk nor write in all my suffering.” She had to rely on friends of Martin to help support her and the children. Among all her trials after her dear husband's death, nothing disturbed Katie Lut...

 Sooner than expected...   Katharina Von Bora Her Marriage In April 1523, Luther sent Leonhard Köppe, a city councilman that would also deliver herring to the monastery, and with him Katharina and the other eight nuns hid in his wagon among the barrels of smoked fish and escaped from their Cistercian convent. A local student of the University of Wittenberg where Martin Luther taught, wrote to a friend: 'A wagon load of vestal virgins has just come to town, all more eager for marriage than for life. God grant them husbands lest worse befall." Within two years, Luther was able to arrange homes, marriages, or employment for all of the escaped nuns—except for Katharina. She first was housed with the family of Philipp Reichenbach, the city clerk of Wittenberg, and later went to the home of Lucas Cranach the Elder and his wife, Barbara. Then in his mission to find a husband for Katharina, he offered her to Wittenberg University alumnus Jerome Baumgärtner, and a ...

Hey y'all! I finally am able to post this character sketch, which is one of my favorites that I have done ( so for I've only done three or four, including this one ). but this one I will do in parts. Katharina Von Bora Her Childhood, her conversion to Christianity January 29, 1499 – December 20, 1552 If one can judge a man by his choice in wives, Martin Luther deserves high marks. According to common belief, she was born on 29 January 1499 in Lippendorf. No one is sure who her parents are, either Hans von Bora zu Hirschfeld and his wife Anna von Haugwitz or Jan von Bora auf Lippendorf and his wife Margarete, whose family name has not been established. No one is sure how many siblings she had either, and some people say that she had at least three brothers and a sister. What we DO know is that they were a noble family, yet poor, and not able to give their daughter a noble woman's education, so they sent her to a Benedictine cloister when she was f...

Hey y'all! My family and I were at the Aunt Het Festival with our church, Grace Reformed Baptist Church , with our friends. It was so much fun! I put my jewelry up for sale, and I only sold one pair, but I think it was worth it ( even though I got sun burned on my nose, cheeks, and lips. ), because we were trying to reach our community with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and giving away a lot of material like books and pamphlets dealing with the Christian walk, family shepherding, Creation, and other controversial subjects that Christians have to deal with today. Enjoy!                            This is Fisher, getting the pro-life stickers " Smile, your mom chose life! " ( We gave away all of our stickers before or around noon! ) . Part one of my part of the booth... ...and part 2! This is Titus, isn't he cute? That morning, it w...

Here is the rest of the character sketch : When Jeanne made a short stop at her husband's   family home in Vendome on 14 May to break her lengthy homeward journey, she failed to prevent a 400-strong Huguenot force from invading the town. The soldiers marched through the streets of Vendome, ransacked all the churches, maltreated the inhabitants, and pillaged the ducal chapel, which housed the tombs of Antoine's ancestors. In consequence, her husband adopted a aggressive stance with her. He issued orders to Blaise de Lasseran, to have her arrested and returned to Paris where she would subsequently be sent to a Catholic convent.   She resumed her journey after leaving Vendome and managed to elude her captors, safely passing over the frontier into Béarn before she could be intercepted by the Blaise de Lasseran and his troops. At the end of the year, Antoine was fatally wounded in battle, and died before Jeanne could obtain the necessary permission to cross over ...

I haven't posted anything for so long, today I just realized it! Sorry! I don't really have anything to post on ( yet! ), so I'll just put a character sketch that I did a few weeks ago:                    Jeanne D' Albret         7 January 1528- 9 June 1572 Jeanne D' Albret was born on   7 January 1528, the only child of Marguerite of Angouleme and Henry of Navarre.   Marguerite was the sister of Francis I, King of France. Prominent not only at the court, but throughout Europe, she "occupied an influential position in the intellectual movement of the day" by speaking out against the abuses of Roman Catholicism. "Marguerite was intensely interested in humanistic studies, was deeply religious, was strongly impressed by Luther and Calvin... [but] while dissenting from much in the Roman Catholic Church, never became a Protestant." I...