Preaching of Capistrano, Jews burned

The Franciscan Jean de Capistran, who had come to preach a crusade against the Turks, traveled through Silesia and Poland denouncing Jews as much as Hussites. An accusation of host desecration was brought in Breslau.

The trial was conducted under his direction: arrests throughout the province, torture, confessions. The condemned were burned in the Salt Market; children under seven years of age were taken and baptized, and the survivors were driven from the city, whose debts to them were annulled.

Capistran obtained similar measures in Schweidnitz, in Liegnitz, and elsewhere; he was canonized a century later. Breslau had no Jewish community again until the eighteenth century.