St. Vincent Ferrer: The Angel of the Judgment

St. Vincent Ferrer (1350–1419), during the last 20 years of his life, preached all over Western and Southern Europe that the Last Judgment was imminent if people did not repent and change their lives. He even maintained that he was bearing the "The Angel of the Judgment" mentioned in the Apocalypse (Apoc. 14:6–7), and he worked an extraordinary miracle to prove it, which the Church accepted as verification of the truth of his claim. And like Ninevah at the warning of the Prophet Jonah, the people did change, and the world was spared, and it has subsisted to the present hour—in large part because of this one man! Vincent was born in 1350 to noble Spanish parents in Valencia. He had completed his education by 14, after which he entered the Dominican Order and was sent to Barcelona. He began his religious life as a professor, teaching in Lerida and Barcelona. While in the latter, famine struck, and Vincent on one occasion predicted the approach of shipments of wheat, which soon came true;