Frau Luther

Late one night Katharina von Bora and eleven other nuns slipped out of the marienthron Convent and hid among the herring barrels on Herr Kopge's wagon. The driver, having tied down the heavy canvas over the barrels, clambered up onto the wagon and urged the horses on their way. Under the canvas the nuns shivered and gagged as they crouched among the smelly fish barrels.

If Katharina von Bora had been contenet to count her beads, do penance for her sins, and close her mind to the truths of th...