The crusade

A runaway nun becomes an outlaw who dares to rewrite the rules of
gender, faith, and empire in the heart of the Spanish Golden Age.

In 1592, Basque novice Catalina de Erauso escapes of her convent, hacks her hair off, and steals a sword. Reinventing herself as “Don Alonso”, she duels across Spain, sails to the Americas, outwits witch-hunters, and even marches into the Vatican to demand papal leave to live as a man. Each adventure boosts the price on her head—and builds her legend. The Crusade unleashes a real seventeenth-century rebel who fought, loved, and lived on her own terms, defying the boundaries of gender, faith, and empire.