Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
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Saint John Capistran.
Confessor.
Feast Day 28 March.
Semi-Double.
White Vestments.
English: Illumination depicting Saint John of Capestrano, O.F.M.
Date: Circa 1470.
Deutsch: Johannes Capistranus Fränkisch-Bambergische Tafelmalerei.
Source: Historisches Museum Bamberg; eingescannt aus: Alois Niederstätter: 1400 - 1522: das Jahrhundert der Mitte: an der Wende vom
Mittelalter zur Neuzeit, aus der Reihe Österreichische Geschichte,
Wien 1996, ISBN 3-8000-3532-4.
Author: Not known.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Mohammed II had taken Constantinople, capital of The Eastern Empire, and was marching on Belgrade. Pope Callistus III decreed a Crusade. Saint John Capistran Preached it in Pannonia and other Provinces.
Supported by the noble Hungarian, John Hunyady, he enrolled 70,000 Christians. These improvised warriors had not other arms but forks and flails. John, whose “strength was The Lord” (Introit), “obtained by their bravery the victory after severe fighting” and, thus, assured the triumph of The Cross over the Crescent (Collect).
That very evening, 120,000 Turks lay dead, or had fled, and Mohammed, wounded, renounced his projects against Christian Europe. Saint John died in 1456.
Let us have recourse to the protection of Saint John and do Penance in order to repel the attacks of The Evil Spirit (Postcommunion).
Mass: Ego autem.
Commemoration (in Lent): Of The Feria.
Last Gospel (in Lent): Of The Feria.
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Saint John of Capestrano (Italian: San Giovanni da Capestrano, Hungarian: Kapisztrán János, Polish: Jan Kapistran, Croatian: Ivan Kapistran, Serbian: Јован Капистран, Jovan Kapistran) (24 June 1386 – 23 October 1456) was a Franciscan Friar and Catholic Priest from the Italian Town of Capestrano, Abruzzo.
Famous as a Preacher, Theologian, and Inquisitor, he earned himself the nickname of “The Soldier Saint” when, in 1456, aged seventy, he led a Crusade against the invading Ottoman Empire at The Siege of Belgrade, with the Hungarian Military Commander John Hunyadi.
Elevated to Sainthood, he is The Patron Saint of Jurists and Military Chaplains, as well as the namesake of The Franciscan Missions, San Juan Capistrano, in Southern California, and San Juan Capistrano, in San Antonio, Texas.
Elevated to Sainthood, he is The Patron Saint of Jurists and Military Chaplains, as well as the namesake of The Franciscan Missions, San Juan Capistrano, in Southern California, and San Juan Capistrano, in San Antonio, Texas.
As Zephyrinus knows, another amazing saint, “Giovanni di Capistrano,” who entered religious life late (nearly 40 years old: in fact, he had been married, but with the consent of his wife they agreed to separate to allow him to enter the Franciscan Order) and then encountered St. Bernadine of Siena and became inspired as well to the great devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus; and after a career as a renowned preacher, in which he had many publicly documented cases of raising the dead to life, miraculous healings, or little things like when he would travel he was wont to spread his cloak on the water and crossover as tho’ on dryland —-he then became spiritual director and chaplain of the John Hunyadi-led rag-tag forces of the Hungarians in an impossible counter-attack and rout of the superior (on paper) Turkish forces and lifted the Turkish siege on July 22nd, 1456.
ReplyDeleteAs if his work was done, God called him only 3 months later October 23rd to his heavenly reward at the age of 70. He is buried in the town where he died likely of equal parts exhaustion and bubonic plague in Ilok, Croatia, in the church named after him. “Well done, good and faithful servant!”
Thank You, Dante Peregrinus, for your valuable Comment and contribution to this Article.
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