She was the first wife of Peter Martyr Vermigli, the noted Reform Theologian. She had been a nun in Metz. The couple married in October of 1545 in Strasbourg and had a happy marriage. Being that she spoke very little Italian and her husband spoke very little German, they must have conversed in Latin. She traveled to England with him and became well-known in Oxford for her ministry to expectant mothers. She also enjoyed carving face into plum stones. She died childless in February before her husband left England in exile in religious persecution from Queen Mary. Soon after his departure, Cardinal Pole, the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of England, had her disinterred and thrown in a garbage dump. The act was done to hurt her husband. When Elizabeth I came to the throne in 1558, Catherine was re-interred with the relics of St. Frithuwide in Christ Church Cathedral. Their bodies were entwined to ensure that Catherine would rest in peace. Her husband would remarry.
She was the first wife of Peter Martyr Vermigli, the noted Reform Theologian. She had been a nun in Metz. The couple married in October of 1545 in Strasbourg and had a happy marriage. Being that she spoke very little Italian and her husband spoke very little German, they must have conversed in Latin. She traveled to England with him and became well-known in Oxford for her ministry to expectant mothers. She also enjoyed carving face into plum stones. She died childless in February before her husband left England in exile in religious persecution from Queen Mary. Soon after his departure, Cardinal Pole, the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of England, had her disinterred and thrown in a garbage dump. The act was done to hurt her husband. When Elizabeth I came to the throne in 1558, Catherine was re-interred with the relics of St. Frithuwide in Christ Church Cathedral. Their bodies were entwined to ensure that Catherine would rest in peace. Her husband would remarry.
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