In 1552, the plague again returned to Wittenberg, forcing the “Mother of the Reformation” and her youngest children to flee to Torgau. But at the very gates of that city, her wagon crashed, hurling her into a ditch filled with icy water. The fall and the cold would be the death of her. Three months later, at age fifty-three, she breathed her last and was buried at Torgau, where her remains lie today.
