ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 22nd of November
JOHN A MANTUA, MONK AND MARTYR
John a Mantua, was a Franciscan killed in A.D. 1557 by the Turks at Jerusalem. His zeal had driven him - without obtaining the permission of his superior - to leave his monastery and to appear before the Mohammedans, and openly and loudly to praise Christ and, on the same occasion, to portray Mohammed as a deceiver and lying prophet.
The enraged Mohammedans threatened him with death unless he retracted what he had said and forced him to instead announce the contrary. He gave in for fear of them and began to profess the Qur'an.
But his confreres, upon hearing his case, grieved greatly for him. He then repented and confessed, and afterwards showed up again among a band of Mohammedans, where he now steadfastly proclaimed Christ as the only true Saviour and the prophet Mohammed as a man of quite impure strivings, and thereupon was murdered by the Turks. (Hub. Men.)
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 3, Augsburg, 1869)
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