at the nearby town of Ilok (now a Croatian border town on the Danube). Sainthood and feast day The year of John of Capistrano's canonization is variously given as 1690 by Pope Alexander VIII or as 1724 by Pope Benedict XIII. In 1890, his feast day was included for the first time in the General Roman Calendar and assigned to 28 March. In 1969, Pope Paul VI moved his feast day to 23 October, the day of his death. Where Mass and the Office are said according to the 1962 Roman Missal and its concomitant calendar, his feast day remains on March 28. Eponym As a Franciscan reformer preaching simplicity, John became the eponym of two Spanish missions founded by the Franciscan friars in the north of the then-Spanish Americas: Mission San Juan Capistrano in present-day Southern California and Mission San Juan Capistrano just outside the city center of present-day San Antonio in Texas. Patron saint He is the patron saint of military chaplains and jurists. John of Capistrano in literature Wilhelm von Scholz wrote a novel entitled "The Way to Ilok" ("Der Weg nach Ilok"). See also Church of St. Wojciech, in Kraków, Poland, sermons Mission San Juan Capistrano in San Antonio, Texas Saint John of Capistrano, patron saint archive (March 28) Saint John of Capistrano, patron saint archive (October 23) References Further reading 1386 births 1456 deaths People from the Province of L'Aquila University of Perugia alumni Diplomats of the Holy See 14th-century Italian writers 15th-century Italian writers Italian Friars Minor Franciscan saints Italian Roman Catholic saints 15th-century Christian saints Canonizations by Pope Alexander VIII 15th-century deaths from plague (disease)