St. Vincent Ferrer Stained Glass T-Shirt

St. Vincent Ferrer with companions (from a stained glass window in St. Dominic Church in Washington D.C.). St Vincent was born in Valencia, Spain, in 1350 and entered the Order at the age of seventeen. He embraced the discipline of an austere spiritual life, a beautiful testimony to which he left in his treatise On the Spiritual Life. In the midst of his philosophical and theological study he took on between 1380 and 1390 the task of reconciling both civil and ecclesiastical disputes at the command of Peter de Luna, Cardinal Legate, and John I, King of Spain. Meanwhile he was also a dedicated preacher, notably at the papal household in Avignon and later in southern France until in 1399 he gave himself wholly to itinerant preaching. At first he supported an antipope, Benedict XIII, but later tried in vain to obtain his abdication, being greatly concerned for the peace and unity of the Church. Possessed of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and apostolic ability, he travelled throughout west