Saint John Capistran. Confessor. Whose Feast Day Is, Today, 28 March.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.

Saint John Capistran.
   Confessor.
   Feast Day 28 March.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

English: 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.

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Saint John, born at Capistrano, Abruzzi, Italy, on 24 June 1385, entered The Order of Saint Francis at the age of thirty-nine. He was chosen by God to deliver Europe from Islam, which threatened to invade in the 15th-Century.

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.