Get Thee From the Nunnery

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“I do not owe you obedience and I will not obey you … I am in a good, pious, blessed, honourable, free, spiritual estate, wherein both my body and soul are well cared for … I want to stay here … I have given myself to God with full knowledge and awareness in eternal chastity here to serve him … No one of the world can sway me.” – Anna Wurm to her brother, 1524.

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Anna Wurm’s brother wanted her out of the convent. It was the time of the Reformation, and he was enamored of the new theology and disenamored of religious life. But according to Amy Welborn, the Reformation may have caused women’s religious roles to be set back centuries.
 
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“I do not owe you obedience and I will not obey you … I am in a good, pious, blessed, honourable, free, spiritual estate, wherein both my body and soul are well cared for … I want to stay here … I have given myself to God with full knowledge and awareness in eternal chastity here to serve him … No one of the world can sway me.” – Anna Wurm to her brother, 1524.

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Anna Wurm’s brother wanted her out of the convent. It was the time of the Reformation, and he was enamored of the new theology and disenamored of religious life. But according to Amy Welborn, the Reformation may have caused women’s religious roles to be set back centuries.
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maybe but maybe they needed reforming too… Have a look for a book called “Tudor Pilgrmage”.

There were some terrible things going on in convents.
 
One of the good things about Catholicism (in doctrine and theory if not always in practice in the culture) was that it was not simply a woman’s duty to get married and have a husband. Catholicism taught that woman as well as men could choose to remain single, possibly choosing a life consecrated to God. The Church has also had many woman saints throughout history which it celebrates.

Granted, mainstream culture did not always practice this, and it certainly influenced Church leaders throughout the ages. Even in a predominantly Catholic culture, secular and cultural influences were present. I don’t claim it was perfect, but this underlying practice and approach was there and preserved.
 
Tudor Pilgrimage… by Josephine Bell… appears to be a novel, a work of fiction. Am I missing something?
 
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