Almighty God, whose servant Katharina Zell toiled for the reform of thy church both in word and in deed: Fill us with the wisdom to speak out in defense of thy truth, with love for thee and for our neighbor, that we may serve thee and welcome all thy people with a mother’s heart; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
500 yrs ago today, 3 December 1523, Matthäus Zell, a Protestant Reformer based at Strasbourg, married Katharina Schütz (-Zell). The idea of clerical marriage, which we now consider commonplace, was unfamiliar & scandalous to most people in the early 1520s.#ILoveTheReformation pic.twitter.com/yIXGCYfDI2
— Stephen Eccher (@Stephen_Eccher) December 4, 2023