Another Character Sketch!

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 five.

When she was nine, she moved to the Cistercian monastery Marienthron ( Mary's Throne ) in Nimbschen, near Grimma, where her maternal aunt was already a member of the community. When she was sixteen, she took the nun's vows. Living in the nunnery, she had the opportunity to learn skills she wouldn’t have otherwise. She was blessed with the ability to learn how to read and write, proficiencies many of her time (especially women) never had a chance to experience. By the age of twenty-four Reformation teaching reached her and eight other nuns, and they started to diligently read the scriptures and they were converted to the true gospel of Jesus Christ, forsaking the works-righteousness of the Roman Catholic Church.

  Upon embracing these new doctrines and beliefs, the first thing that the young women did was write to their parents. " The salvations of our souls will not permit us to remain any longer in a cloister" Their parents, fearing the trouble that could come to them out of such a resolution, like losing their property, or death, instead of supporting them, harshly rejected what was in their letters. Katharina knew that they had to leave the cloister. She could no longer live a life dedicated to a false religion. Therefore she contacted Martin Luther, asking him for help. 

I'll post the next part soon!