Luther's Rose

Katharina von Bora married the great reformer Martin Luther, providing an invaluable "earth" for his missionary zeal. On a human level, she provided management skills and personal warmth to weather battles, loss of children, sicknesses and the daily challenges of finance and logistics. Before that, Katherina von Bora revealed a pioneering spirit in the decision to quit her calling as a nun: families used to send their daughters to a convent for the free education offered plus, in the absence of a good marriage, a secure future. Read of how rumours of new teaching percolated to the sisters.