Katharina von Bora with the family of Philipp Reichenbach, the city clerk of Wittenberg. Later she went to the home of Lucas Cranach the Elder and his wife, Barbara. Katharina had a number of suitors, including Wittenberg University alumnus Jerome (Hieronymus) Baumgärtner (1498–1565) of Nuremberg and a pastor, Kaspar Glatz of Orlamünde. None of the proposed matches resulted in marriage. She told Luther’s friend and fellow reformer, Nikolaus von Amsdorf, that she would be willing to marry only Luther or von Amsdorf himself. Martin Luther, and many of his friends as well, were at first unsure of whether he should even be married.
Catharine Burton other sources by Father Thomas Hunter, remained in manuscript till 1876. It was printed, with the title of "An English Carmelite" (London), under the editorial supervision of Father Henry James Coleridge, S.J. Catharine Burton Catharine Burton (1668–1714) was an English Discalced Carmelite nun. She was born at Beyton, Suffolk, near Bury St Edmunds, on 4 November 1668. Feeling called to the monastic life, Burton went to the Spanish Netherlands. There she made her religious profession in the monastery of the English Discalced Carmelite nuns at Antwerp in 1694, being known in that community as Mother Mary Xaveria of the Angels,