Saint John of Capistrano 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 '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. Elevated to sainthood, he is the patron saint of Hungary, jurists and military chaplains. ∼ Lawyer and a Catholic saint. He was a Franciscan.
- Name: John Of Capistrano
- Birth: 24/06/1386 (Capestrano, Provincia di L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy)
- Death: 23/10/1456 (Ilok, Grad Ilok, Vukovarsko-Srijemska, Croatia)
- Died at 70
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- Lived in Ilok, Grad Ilok
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