Catalina de erauso autobiography for kids

  • In the year 1600, in the Spanish Basque town of San Sebastián, the fifteen year old novice Catalina de Erauso dwells in a Dominican convent of nuns.
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  • Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World is Catalina de Erauso's memoir about her experiences during the early 1600s in Spain and South.

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    Welcome to steph you missed in history class from how
    Stuff Works dot com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast.
    I'm Tracy V. Wilson and I'm Holly Frying. We're taking
    a little trip today to both the time and a
    place that have not gotten as much attention on our

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    show recently. That's largely my fault. My picks for the
    show have have largely been like United States twentieth century
    lately for reasons. Well, we'll break out of that right today.
    We're going to talk about Spain and it's American colonies
    in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. And we have to
    tip our hats to Jason poor Atha rejected princesses for

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    this idea, because that is where we first heard about,
    or at least I first heard about Catalina de Arouso,
    who was nicknamed the Lieutenant Nunn in spite of being
    left in the care of a convent at about age
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    Catalina de Erauso

    (1585/92-1650)

    The Lieutenant Nun

    You know you’re in for a bumpy ride when you pick up an autobiography only to find that the author kills someone in a dryckesställe fight roughly every 5-6 pages. Such is the life of Catalina dem Erauso, whose madcap disguised-as-a-man travels across South amerika come across like a 17th century episode of Cops. Her cycles of kill/hide/escape/repeat are so frequent that her story jumps rapidly from off-putting, to cartoonish, to… intriguing. For it’s only when one gives Erauso’s story a deeper inspection that her true cleverness reveals itself – after all, it’s not your everyday thug who fryst vatten able to gin up a meeting with the Pope and get special dispensation to crossdress. More on that later.

    Erauso started out her once-upon-a-times with a prison break and a clothing swap. Cooped up in a Spanish convent since from the age of 4, Erauso gradually grew more frustrated with her lack of freedom, not to mention th

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    Antonio de Erauso

    Basque nun and explorer, d. 1650

    Antonio de Erauso, born as Catalina de Erauso (in Spanish) (San Sebastián, Spain, 1585 or 1592[1] — Cuetlaxtla near Orizaba, New Spain, 1650),[2] also went by Alonso Díaz and some other masculine names, later taking on the name Antonio de Erauso which he went by for the remainder of his life. He is also known in Spanish as La Monja Alférez (The Ensign Nun or The Nun Lieutenant). de Erauso was originally an unwilling nun, but escaped the convent and travelled around Spain and Spanish America, mostly under male identities, in the first half of the 17th century. Erauso's story has remained alive through historical studies, biographical stories, novels, movies and comics.[3]

    Early years

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    Erauso was born in the Basque town of San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain, in either 1585 (according to some sources including a supposed autobiography of 1626)[4][5] or February

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