John of Capistrano«Giovanni da Capestrano / Kapisztrán János / Jan Kapistran / Ivan Kapistran»

(1386–1456)

Confessor, Friar, Preacher, Theologian

Orders/Societies Associated with: Franciscans {Orders of Friars Minor}

Place of birth:Kingdom of Naples¹

Place of death:Kingdom of Hungary (after the Árpád dynasty)²

Place(s) associated with:Austria³, Kingdom of Bohemia⁴, Holy Roman Empire⁵, Kingdom of Hungary⁶, Kingdom of Poland (Crown of the Kingdom of Poland)⁷, Ottoman Empire (Sublime Ottoman State)⁸

Feastday

23 October

Beatification

19/12/1650 by Innocentius X

Canonisation

16/10/1690 by Alexander VIII

Patronage

Patron of:jurists, military chaplains

¹Regnum Neapolitanum / Regno di Napoli / Regno 'e Napule [1282–1806]

²Magyar Királyság (Árpád háza után) / Regnum Hungariae (post-Árpád) [1301–1526]

³Österreich

⁴České království / Königreich Böhmen / Regnum Bohemiae [1198–1918]

⁵Heiliges Römisches Reich / Imperium Romanum Sacrum / Sacro Romano Impero / Svatá říše římská / Sveto rimsko cesarstvo [800–1806]

⁶Magyar Királyság / Regnum Hungariae / Königreich Ungarn [1920–1946]

⁷Królestwo Polskie (Korona Królestwa Polskiego) / Regnum Poloniae (Corona Regni Poloniae) [1385–1795]

⁸دولت عليه عثمانیه / Osmanlı İmparatorluğu [c. 1299–1922]

Saints

This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.

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Sources

Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:

D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.

Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.

Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.

Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990

and the following websites:

Saints.SQPN.com

Santi, beati e testimoni - Enciclopedia dei Santi

Santi e beati della Toscana

eCatholicHub Catholic Saints Database

The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee

Martyrologium Romanum - Index Generalis

www.synaxaristis - ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ

Onomasticon Goedelicum locorum et tribuum Hiberniae et Scotiae (An index, with identifications, to the Gaelic names of places and tribes)

Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England: Database Home

focal.ie - Dictionary of Irish Terms - Foclóir Téarmaíochta

logainm.ie - Bunachar Logainmneacha na hÉireann - Placenames Database of Ireland

Bosworth–Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia