Welcome to five minutes in church history hosted by Dr Stephen Nichols, where we take a little

break from the present to go exploring the past. Travel back in time as we look at the people,

events, and even the places that have shaped the story of Christianity.

This is our story, our family history. Let's get started.

Two weeks ago we celebrated the 498 Reformation day by talking about Luther.

And of course Luther always fills the room so we needed two episodes to talk about Luther.

Well while Luther gets all the attention I thought we needed to give a little

attention to Mrs. Martin Luther. So this episode is about Katrina Fonbora, the wife of

Herr Professor Dr. Martin Luther, or we can just call her Mrs. Luther.

Katie was born on January 29, 1499.

We don't know much about her early childhood. There's even dispute over what town she was born in.

The records just simply aren't clear. When she was around five, she was sent to a

cloister for her education and we do know that by the time she was 10 years old by

1509 she was at a monastery in the town of Nimshin. Now after 1509 once she

was there we have of course Luther's nailing of the 95

theses to the church door there at Vittenberg on October 31st 1517 that

special day reformation day as we know it and it was 17 that

we know it

it was shortly after that

that Leonard cop a merchant friend of luthers who was delivering barrels of

herring to the convent there at

Nymphion assisted the escaping of a dozen nuns. He arrived there late at night,

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