TODAY'S SAINT (John of Capistrano)
JOHNN OF CAPISTRANO
Priest
St John was born at Capistrano, Italy in 1385, the son of a former German knight of that city. He studied law at the University of Perugia and practiced as a lawyer in the courts of Naples. King Ladislas of Naples appointed him governor of Perugia.
During a war with a neighboring trown he was betrayed and imprisoned. Upon his release he entered the Franciscan community at Perrugia in 1416. He and St. James of the March were fellow students under St. Bernardine of Siena, who inspired him to institute the devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus and His Mother. John began his brilliant preachinjg apostolate while a deacon in 1420. After his ordination he traveled throughout Italy, Germany, Bohemia, Austria, Hungary, Poland, and Russia preaching penance and establishing numerous communities of Franciscan renewal.
When Mohammed II was threatening Vienna and Rome, St. John, at the age of seventy, was commissioned by Pope Callistus II to preach and lead a crusade against the invading Turks. Marching at the head of 70,000 Christians, he gained victory in the great battle of Belgrade against the Turks in 1456. Three months later he died at Illok, Hungary.
PRAYER
God, You alone are holy and without You no one is good.
Through the intercession of St. Salome, grant that we may
so live as not to be deprived of Your glory. Amen.
Feast: October 23
Patron of Jurists
posted by US Catholic @ 12:29 AM
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