Basque explorer, adventurer, soldier, explorer, memorialist, authorized by Pope Urban VIII to dress like a man

Catalina d'Erauso, a Spanish nun who lived as a male soldier in America. Lithograph by A.L. Noël, 1833, after F. Pacheco.

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Antonio de Erauso

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Catalina d'Erauso, a Spanish nun who lived as a male soldier in America. Lithograph by A.L. Noël, 1833, after F. Pacheco.