November 28 - Saint James the Marches
Quick Facts- Born poor.
- Doctor of Civil Law.
- Franciscan monk at age 22.
- Student with Saint John of Capistrano.
- Disciple of Saint Bernadine of Siena.
- Tutor.
- Judge of sorcerers.
- Ordained in 1423.
- Preacher and evangelist throughout Central and Northern Europe, preaching every day for 40 years.
- Brought Blessed Bernardino of Feltre and Blessed Bernardino of Fosso into the Franciscans.
- Travelled and worked with Saint John Capistrano.
- Inquisitor in 1426, assigned to crush the heretical Fraticelli.
- Worked against the Bogomil heresy in Bosnia in 1432.
- Founded several monasteries in Bohemia, Hungary, and Austria.
- Chief almoner for the 1437 Crusade against the Turks.
- Worked at the Council of Florence in 1438 to re-unite the Eastern and Latin Churches.Papal legate in 1456.
- Preached against the Hussites in Austria and Hungary.
- The Dominican Inquisitors made him the subject of an inquiry in 1462 when they thought that one of his statements on the Precious Blood was heretical; Rome ordered the case to be put permanently on hold, and it was never settled.
- A skinny man who dressed in a tattered habit, he fasted every day until his health began to fail - and the pope ordered him to eat as a public service.
