Katharina von Bora was the daughter of a Jan von Bora auf Lippendorf and his wife Margarete, whose family name has not been established. Both were only specifically mentioned in the year 1505. It is certain that her father sent the five-year-old Katharina to the Benedictine cloister in Brehna in 1504 for education. This is documented in a letter from Laurentius Zoch to Martin Luther, written on October 30, 1531. This letter is the only evidence for Katharina von Bora's time spent within the monastery. At the age of nine she moved to the Cistercian monastery of Marienthron (Mary's Throne) in Nimbschen, near
Tane (Bora Bora) Tane (Bora Bora) Motu Tane (which in Tahitian translates as Man's Island), is a private island in the lagoon of Bora Bora in French Polynesia. It is the located between Paahi, and Pitoraverahi. Motu Tane is well known in Bora Bora as having been Paul-Emile Victor's home. Paul-Emile Victor was the famous French polar explorer and author and chose as his personal paradise refuge Motu Tane in Bora Bora, to live a peaceful and secluded life. The island has coconut groves, encircled by a white sand beach with just beyond Polynesia's sparkling turquoise blue waters. in 1997, it was purchased