She ate what she found on the way walking through different villages, this is how she reached Vitoria, a city 20 miles from San Sebastian. Later, she narrated this in her autobiography, which gave her great fame.
Fugitive status in Spainįrom this moment, she began the life of a fugitive. She made menswear with the materials she found, cut her hair and hid her habit. For this reason, on the night of March 18, 1600, the eve of San Jose, she found the keys of the convent hanging in a corner and took advantage of it to escape. Catalina de Erauso was detained in her cell because of the constant fights she had with a widow novice named Mrs Catalina de Alirli. She realized that she had no religious vocation, for which she felt imprisoned and refused to profess her vows. Because of her explosive character and given the difficulty the nuns had to control her, she was transferred to the Monastery of San Bartolome de San Sebastian until she was 15, where the rules were much stricter. At that time, it was normal for young girls to enter education according to the criteria of Catholicism promoting the learning of female tasks and subsequently to be betrothed "as God intended". In the convent, her aunt Mrs "Ursula de Uriza and Sarasti", a cousin of her mother, held the position of prioress. Life at the ConventĪround the year 1589, when she was 4 years old, she entered the Dominican convent of her hometown (San Sebastian), with her sisters Isabel and Maria. From an early age she took part with her father and brothers in the arts of warfare. Her father was an important military commander of the Basque province under the orders of King Philip III of Spain. Her parents were Captain Miguel de Erauso and Maria Pérez de Arce Gallarraga, both of whom had been born and lived in San Sebastián. However her baptismal certificate dates her birth in 1592. De Erauso's (alleged) autobiography claims that she was born in 1585.
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