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St.Vincent Ferrer - The Angel of Apocalypse

The Greatest Miracle Worker since the days of the 12 Apostles

St.Louis Bertrand testified: "God sanctioned the teaching of Vincent Ferrer by so many miracles, (includes rising more than 30 dead ones back to life in the name

of Jesus Christ), that there never was a saint since the days of the Apostles to our own times, who wrought more". The Church officially recognized 892 of his miracles as part of his canonisation, but the total number is estimated to be in hundreds of thousands.

For if he had performed only 8 miracles a day during the 20 years of his apostolate, the number would have exceeded fifty-eight thousand. Yet this amazing number is considered woefully low by those who were contemporaries.

St. Antoninus affirmed that twenty-eight persons were raised from death by St Vincent, but that this number did not represent the total number, which was much greater. Near the town of Conflans during August 1415, he fed 4,000 men, not counting women and children,

with seven loaves and a few fishes.

Near Palma of Majorca St. Vincent Ferrer stilled a storm in order to preach from a wharf. At Beziers he stopped a flood. He could cast out demons with a word or a touch. People heard him in their own local language though he spoke his

native Spanish dialect. Yet, the aforementioned does not cover all of the extraordinary gifts he was given. The Bishop of Telesia said: "It is quite impossible for me to enumerate all the miracles that I have seen him work, and volumes would not contain them".

One witness who followed the Saint for fifteen months testified under oath that "after Mass and the Sermon, and again after Vespers, the sick were brought to Master Vincent to be healed. Master Vincent laid his hands upon them, blessed them,

and the sick were healed, and went away rejoicing.”

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