Based on the international bestseller by Donna Woolfolk, this is the rousing true story of a woman who became a scholar and a pope in the 9th century. Raised in a village in ninth century Europe, Johanna (Johanna Wokalek, The Baader Meinhof Complex) is the daughter of the local priest, a cruel, vindictive man who wishes her brothers to attend a cathedral school and become Catholic scholars. Secretly taught to read and write by her eldest brother, she is discovered by a visiting Greek scholar who becomes her mentor. He champions her learning and promises to secure her a place at the school much to her father's anger. Johanna runs away to seek out the promise of knowledge, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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