Kidnapped by incredibly petty coworkers
Office politics in the sixteenth century were utterly ruthless. John of the Cross suggested some structural reforms to his order, and his colleagues responded by literally kidnapping him, blindfolding him, and locking him in a tiny closet for nine months. He eventually escaped by unscrewing the lock on his door and climbing out a window, definitively proving that some meetings really could have been an email.

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