Vincent Ferrer

Spanish Dominican preacher and saint (1350–1419)

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Lived 1350–1419, aged 69

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1350–1419
Aged 69

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Updated 2026-05-29

Medieval Dominican friar who spent his career preaching across Western Europe with a reputation for mass conversions and controversial methods. Canonized in 1455, centuries after his heyday during the Western Schism.

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Vincent Ferrer, OP was a Valencian Dominican friar who gained acclaim as a preacher, missionary and logician. After supporting Antipope Benedict XIII during the Western Schism, Ferrer travelled to preach across Western Europe and the British Isles. His preaching has been credited in some sources as converting 25,000 Jews to Catholicism. Other sources indicate that it involved support for coercive means, such as the forcible conversion of synagogues into churches. He was canonized in 1455.

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