!!!Capistran Capestranus, Johannes von, Heiliger

b. Capestrano (Italy), June 24, 1386, 
d. Ujlak-Ilok near Belgrade (Yugoslavia), Oct. 23, 1456; Franciscan 
monk, itinerant preacher. Came to Vienna in 1451, where he founded the 
first monastery of the  Franciscans in Austria near St. Theobald auf 
der Laimgrube; participated in the Christianisation of the Hussites in 
Moravia; 1454 in Vienna, preached in favour of a crusade against the 
Turks; canonised in 1690. In 1430 the wooden "C. pulpit" was placed in 
"Stephansfreithof", the graveyard by St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna 
but in 1752 a stone replica was made and moved into the corner of the 
North choir of the cathedral.

!Works
J. v. C., Reden und Traktate, ed. by E. Jacob, 1905.

!Literature
J. Hofer, J. v. C., 1964; S. Andríc, The Miracles 
of St. John Capistran, 2000.



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