John of Nepomuk
Catholic saint (1340-1393)
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Lived 1340–1393, aged 53
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Updated 2026-06-08
A Bohemian priest drowned by his king in 1393, wrapped centuries later in legends of miraculous silence and miraculous healings — until the church made him a saint and patron against floods.
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John of Nepomuk was a clergyman in fourteenth-century Bohemia who sided with Archbishop Jan of Jenštejn in a clash with the crown. That loyalty cost him: on 20 March 1393, King Wenceslaus IV had him thrown into the Vltava River. In the decades after, a cult formed around his death, fed by fantastical hagiographies and reports of miraculous healings. The church canonized him in 1729, casting him as a martyr of the Seal of the Confessional. Today he stands as patron against calumnies, floods, and drowning — a medieval execution turned into sacred legend.
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