Pickled Nun Run

On Easter Eve 1523 Luther sent a delivery of several barrels of pickled herring to a convent near Grimma. Several of the nuns had been reading Luther’s works and wanted to escape the convent. They hid in the empty barrels and made their way to back to Wittenberg. All the nuns were married off to former priests except one, Katharina von Bora who refused to marry anyone but Luther. They had six children and Luther called her his “Morning Star.”