# Vincent Ferrer

> A Dominican friar whose sermons swept Western Europe in the early 1400s, credited with converting tens of thousands of Jews — though some sources point to forced conversions and synagogues turned into churches by coercion, not persuasion.

*Spanish Dominican preacher and saint (1350–1419)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/vincent-ferrer

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Religious Figure
- **Category:** Religious Figures
- **Country:** Spain
- **Born:** 1350-01-23
- **Died:** 1419-04-05
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Valencia on 23 January 1350, Vincent Ferrer joined the Dominicans and built a reputation as a preacher, missionary, and logician. During the Western Schism he backed Antipope Benedict XIII, then set out across Western Europe and the British Isles on a preaching campaign that some accounts say brought 25,000 Jews into the Catholic fold. Other sources suggest his influence leaned on coercive means: synagogues forcibly converted into churches, conversions that were not entirely voluntary. He died on 5 April 1419 and was canonized in 1455, his legacy a tangle of persuasion and pressure.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 54.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.4 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 21.6 / 100
- **Now attention:** 2.2 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
#Religious Figures, #Writer / Author, #Literature, #Religion, #Medieval Era

## Sources
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Ferrer)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q317131)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Vincent%20Ferrer)
- [Вінцэнт Фэрэр](https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%82_%D0%A4%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%8D%D1%80)
- [Вінцэнт Ферэр](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%82_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8D%D1%80)
- [Висент Ферер](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%80)
- [ভিনসেন্ট ফেরের](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F_%E0%A6%AB%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0)
- [Sant Visant Ferrer](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Visant_Ferrer)
- [Sant Vicent Ferrer](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Vicent_Ferrer)
- [Vincenc Ferrerský](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenc_Ferrersk%C3%BD)
- [Vinzenz Ferrer](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinzenz_Ferrer)
- [Vincento Ferrer](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincento_Ferrer)
- [Vicente Ferrer (santo)](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Ferrer_(santo))
- [Vicent Ferrer](https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicent_Ferrer)
- [Bizente Ferrer (santua)](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizente_Ferrer_(santua))
- [وینسن فرر](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%B1)
- [Vicent Ferrer](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicent_Ferrer)
- [Vincent Ferrier](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Ferrier)
- [ויסנט פרר](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%A0%D7%98_%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A8)
- [Vincent Ferrer](https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Ferrer)
- [Vinko Fererski](https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinko_Fererski)
- [Ferrer Szent Vince](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrer_Szent_Vince)
- [Vincent Ferrer](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Ferrer)
- [Vincenzo Ferreri](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Ferreri)
- [ビセンテ・フェレール](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB)
- [فنسنت فيرير](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AA_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1)
- [Vicente Ferrer (santu)](https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Ferrer_(santu))

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