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SAINT VINCENT FERRER, CONFESSOR Vincent, born around the year 1350 in Valencia, Spain from an honest family, he showed since his very first years the maturity of an elder. After considering the capacities of his intelligence, the fragility of such an obscure century, he received at the age of 18 the religious habit of the Order of Preachers; and after doing the solemn profession, he assiduously applied himself in the sacred letters and obtained the cumlaude, the degree in theology. He immediately had permission from his superiors to preach the word of God, he started to confound the perfidy of the Jews and to refute the errors of the Saracens with so much force and efficacy, that he lead a great multitude of infidels to the faith of Christ, and recalled many thousands of Christians from sins to penance, from vices to virtues.