On the feast of All Saints  in 1527, Mother Caritas Pirkheimer, the great Poor Clare abbess of Nurenberg, Germany, protested to civic authorities regarding the nuns being persecuted for their Catholic beliefs.  The Sisters never converted to Protestantism, but they were forced to listen to Lutheran preachers from 1525 until 1591, when the last of the Sisters died. (The Community had been forbidden to receive new members.)  “The whole city at this time (1525), spoke about the ‘pure Gospel’ that had been clouded over by those who should have been proclaiming it. So, the council said that it did not want to deprive us of this great gift of a pure Gospel. And they said that they would procure at their own expense the very best preachers for us.   We have been deprived of everything, left naked like miserable worms on the earth.  We were completely deprived of Confession, Communion, and all of the Sacraments, even at the point of death…”                         - Mother Caritas Pirkheimer