Saint
Saint Vincent Ferrer
- Country / origin
- Spain / France
- Life
- 1350–1419
- Feast
- 5 April
- Canonised
- 1455
Awaiting theological review
Who was this?
A Dominican from Valencia and one of the great preachers of the Middle Ages. For twenty years he travelled through Spain, France, Italy and Switzerland calling people to conversion, and crowds followed him. He also worked to end the Great Western Schism, when rival popes divided the Church. He died at Vannes, in Brittany.
Patron of
- Valencia
- preachers
- the conversion of sinners
When to ask for intercession
- conversion
- preaching and catechesis
- the unity of the Church
A short prayer
Saint Vincent Ferrer, intercede for me, that I may turn to God with my whole heart and help others to find him.
Written for cento53 as a simple personal prayer of intercession — not a liturgical text.
A saint for what you are living
- Deep conversion
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