Word: bora
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...amazement a glaringly inaccurate statement in TIME Nov. 8. I refer to your reference to "one Katrina Borah" as Luther's second wife. Glib ignorance of an elementary historical fact which affected a great human movement so profoundly as did the marriage of Martin Luther to Katharina von Bora the Protestant Reformation reflects no credit on the reputation of pretensions of a. magazine such as yours (sic.). Katharina was Luther's first and only wife. His marriage to her, being that of a former priest to a former nun, raised a fury of opposition against him and against...
TIME reported that Senator Borah was interested in tracing his ancestry to Martin Luther's wife's family. To TIME's Political Editor a mild reprimand for his ignorance of Church history. Katharina von Bora was, indeed, a fine woman. According to McGiffert,- she escaped from a convent, by the aid of Luther, who endeavored to secure a husband for her, upon which she intimated, anticipating Priscilla Mullins, that she would prefer Luther himself...
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