Clerical marriage Orthodox Communion (Constantinople, Alexandria Egypt, Antioch Syria, and Jerusalem). As stated above, the majority of Roman Church Priests at that time were married. Therefore, when some churches that followed western rites and traditions were brought back into communion with the Orthodox Churches beginning in the 20th century, their right to have married clergy, provided they were married before ordination, was restored. The practice of clerical marriage was initiated in the West by the followers of Martin Luther, who himself, a former priest and monk, married Katharina von Bora, a former nun, in 1525. It has not been introduced in the
Nun Nicer sent to race in Germany and stepped up in distance for the Preis von Donausschingen over eleven furlongs at Cologne. She started the odds-on favourite and won easily, earning a prize of approximately £1,250 and gold cup presented by Prince Furstenberg. Nun Nicer was retired from racing to become a broodmare. She was exported to Germany in 1904 with her colt but returned in 1906. Her reported foals included: Nun Nicer did not produce a living foal after 1910 and died in 1915. Nun Nicer Nun Nicer (1895–1915) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. As a two-year-old in 1897