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Armin Stein. Katharine von Bora: Dr. Martin Luther's Wife
Katharine von Bora: Dr. Martin Luther's Wife
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CHAPTER I. A CONSPIRACY
CHAPTER II. DISAPPOINTED HOPES
CHAPTER III. DAWN
CHAPTER IV. FREEDOM
CHAPTER V. SHELTERED
CHAPTER VI. A FLEETING FANCY
CHAPTER VII. KATHARINE IN TROUBLE, AND DR. MARTIN IN STRIFE. WITH HIS FRIENDS
CHAPTER VIII. A SUDDEN RESOLVE
CHAPTER IX. A DAY OF REJOICING
CHAPTER X "AS SORROWING, YET ALWAYS REJOICING."
CHAPTER XI. THE FAITHFUL ECKART
CHAPTER XII. A NEW LIFE
CHAPTER XIII "AS DYING, AND, BEHOLD, WE LIVE."
CHAPTER XIV. BEREAVED, AND COMFORTED
CHAPTER XV. ALONE
CHAPTER XVI. GOD'S INN
CHAPTER XVII. PEACE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE MOTHER AND HER CHILDREN
CHAPTER XIX. RISEN FROM THE DEAD
CHAPTER XX "LORD" KATE
CHAPTER XXI. LUTHER'S LAST WILL
CHAPTER XXII. LITTLE LENA
CHAPTER XXIII. ONCE MORE IN ZULSDORF
CHAPTER XXIV. PARTING
CHAPTER XXV. ALONE
CHAPTER XXVI. WAR
CHAPTER XXVII. MORE TROUBLE
CHAPTER XXVIII. GLIMPSES OF SUNSHINE
CHAPTER XXIX. RELEASE
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Armin Stein
Published by Good Press, 2021
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It was Easter Eve in the year 1523. After the solemn hush of Good Friday, a bustling activity stirred the little community. The work was done in silence, it is true, for the day on which the body of our Lord lay in the sepulchre, demanded quiet and reverence; but all hands were busy with preparations worthy of the highest festival of the Christian Church. Groups of nuns were binding wreaths of moss and cedar-branches, with which to deck the images of the Saints and the life-size statue of the blessed Virgin, which occupied the most prominent place in the chapel. Others were engaged about the altar, which on Good Friday had been stripped of all ornament. They covered it with a cloth of white silk embroidered in gold, and supplied the candlesticks with fresh tapers, which Leonhard Koppe had lately provided. Others were building up in the altar recess a representation of the Resurrection,—the grave, surrounded by the prostrate watchers, and the Saviour issuing from its portal, bearing aloft the banner of victory.
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