Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. We are now 23

days into our journey through the life and the thought and legacy of Martin Luther

and today we are talking about one of the most important things in Luther's life.

Luther would say to us one of the most important persons in his life. Today we are

talking about Martin and Katie.

Katrina Vonborough, Martin Luther's wife.

Well, we are at a great location

to be talking about this marriage.

We are at the Augustinian cloister here in Vittenberg and I am actually sitting on the Luther bench right outside the door to the cloister.

Katie had this bench put in and she had another bench on the other

side of the door installed so that the two of them could sit and talk. Luther was a very busy man and Katie wanted to make sure

that the two of them would spend time together.

So she had someone carved in these benches

into this door frame so that hair professor Dr Martin Luther

could have a conversation with his wife Katie.

Luther of course was a former monk and Katie was a former nun.

She was at the Nimchen convent, and she was there with some other nuns that were actually

rescued by a friend of Luther's. He was a fish merchant. His name was

Leonard Cup and he ended up at the monastery with barrels full of herring and he

dropped off that load. It was late in the evening and in the

middle of the night the nuns that wanted to escape got into those herring barrels on

his cart and in the morning he went right out the gate with them.

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