John of Capistrano

Franciscan friar and Catholic saint (1386-1456) · Politicians · Died at 70

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John of Capistrano, OFM was an Italian Franciscan friar and Catholic priest from the town of Capestrano, Abruzzo.

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San Giovanni di Capistrano, by Santi Buglioni c. 1550

The saint's coat of arms, with a sword piercing a crescent moon, on the Papal Ombrellino at Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano.

Politicians born in the 1380s 6

Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge54.9

Yolanda de Aragon52.8

Cosimo de' Medici62.4

Anthony, Duke of Brabant51.2

Gian Maria Visconti51.1 Jan Ptáček of Pirkstein50.9

About this person

John of Capistrano, OFM was an Italian Franciscan friar and Catholic priest from the town of Capestrano, Abruzzo. Famous as a preacher, theologian, and inquisitor, he earned himself the nickname "the Soldier Saint" when in 1456 at age 70 he led a Crusade against the invading Ottoman Empire at the siege of Belgrade with the Hungarian military commander John Hunyadi.