Vincent Ferrer
Spanish Dominican preacher and saint (1350-1419) · Spain · Religious Figures · Died at 69
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Something wrong?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.
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San Vincenzo Ferrer polyptych by Giovanni Bellini
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Sibling: Bonifaci FerrerAbout this person
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.
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