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Present were Justus Jonas, Bugenhagen, and Johann Apel, professor of law at the university, along with Lucas Cranach and his wife. They were there to witness an extraordinary event, the betrothal of a forty-two-year-old former monk to a twenty-six-year-old former nun, Katharina von Bora. Bugenhagen presided and the Cranachs acted as sponsors and witnesses. Unusually, and in the same limited company, the wedding proceeded the very same evening. Only two weeks later was there any public festivity to celebrate Martin Luther’s transition to married life.This was in many respects a strangely subdued, almost furtive way for Luther to mark this important, and ultimately joyous, milestone in his life. The reformer was a hugely popular figure in Wittenberg, and one would have thought that he would want to take this momentous step in the company of his friends and congregation. Yet not even his loyal friend Philip Melanchthon was invited (Philip was deeply hurt, and found it hard to disguise his sense of outrage in his letters recording the event).1 It was not as if Luther was blazing a trail in taking a wife.
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