Sopron - Church - Blessed Mary Benedictine Church - Interior 02
Pulpit on the north wall of the church, next to the tomb of the Széchenyis, is a part of Hungarian history, because of Giovanni di Capestrano, i.e. János Kapistzrán (1386– 1456) announced the campaign against the Turks in Hungary. He left Buda on April 15, 1456 to announcd the crusade against Turks throughout the country, and thus arrived in Sopron. He probably gave his sermon and exhortation on the Main Square, from that particular wooden pulpit, which was later covered with marble and is today one of the valuable and precious pieces of the church.
The triumph in the battle of Belgrade took place in July 1456. Just three weeks later, on August 11, the "Turkish beater" János Hunyadi died of the plague, and at the end of October, János Kapistzrán also died of the plague in the Franciscan monastery of Ujlak (Ilok) in present-day Croatia. He was also buried here in the clothes adorned with a cross given to him by the Pope, but he could not rest in peace for long, because when the Turks invaded here in 1526, the body of János Kapistzrán was taken to the Franciscan monastery in Nagyszőlős. During the Reformation, when the feudal lord of Nagyszőlős converted to the Protestant faith, the monastery was ransacked, the monks were killed or driven away, the relics in the church, including probably the remains of János Kapistzrán, were also thrown into the well of the priory - the corpse was lost forever...
Sopron - Church - Blessed Mary Benedictine Church - Interior 02
Pulpit on the north wall of the church, next to the tomb of the Széchenyis, is a part of Hungarian history, because of Giovanni di Capestrano, i.e. János Kapistzrán (1386– 1456) announced the campaign against the Turks in Hungary. He left Buda on April 15, 1456 to announcd the crusade against Turks throughout the country, and thus arrived in Sopron. He probably gave his sermon and exhortation on the Main Square, from that particular wooden pulpit, which was later covered with marble and is today one of the valuable and precious pieces of the church.
The triumph in the battle of Belgrade took place in July 1456. Just three weeks later, on August 11, the "Turkish beater" János Hunyadi died of the plague, and at the end of October, János Kapistzrán also died of the plague in the Franciscan monastery of Ujlak (Ilok) in present-day Croatia. He was also buried here in the clothes adorned with a cross given to him by the Pope, but he could not rest in peace for long, because when the Turks invaded here in 1526, the body of János Kapistzrán was taken to the Franciscan monastery in Nagyszőlős. During the Reformation, when the feudal lord of Nagyszőlős converted to the Protestant faith, the monastery was ransacked, the monks were killed or driven away, the relics in the church, including probably the remains of János Kapistzrán, were also thrown into the well of the priory - the corpse was lost forever...