I suppose one of the benefits of being ex-communicated as a priest from the Roman Catholic Church is you can get a wife. Such was the case for Martin Luther when he became engaged and married on the same day to Katharina von Bora. Katie, as she was known, was a nun who followed Luther’s ideas of “faith alone” for salvation and wanted to get out of the nunnery she was in. She and some other nuns called on Luther to help them “escape” from the nunnery and Luther found all the nuns a husband except Katie so Luther married her. In addition to bearing Martin several children, she raised livestock and brewed beer. She died on December 20, 1552.
