Siege of Belgrade Lifted
July 22, 1456
John Hunyadi and the Franciscan friar John of Capistrano led a peasant crusade that drove Mehmed II back from Belgrade's walls. Mehmed was wounded in the thigh and retreated. To celebrate, Pope Callixtus III ordered church bells rung every noon across Christendom, a practice Catholics still keep without knowing why.
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