St. Vincent Ferrer: Angel of the Judgment (with Supplemental Reading: A Brief Life of Christ) [Illustrated] by Rev. Fr. Andrew Pradel O.P

Author:Rev. Fr. Andrew Pradel O.P. [Pradel O.P., Rev. Fr. Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781618904935
Publisher: TAN Books
Published: 2014-12-09T06:00:00+00:00

—SECTION FIVE—

THE MARVELOUS GIFTS WHICH SHONE FORTH IN ST. VINCENT FERRER.

Chapter 13

St. Vincent Ferrer Favored with a Multitude of

Visions, Revelations and Ecstasies—The Secrets

Of Hearts Revealed to the Saint.

VINCENT Ferrer daily beheld in his private prayers, and even in the course of his apostolic preaching, either pious souls who still lived on earth, or the souls in Purgatory, or the Saints in Paradise, the Angels, the Blessed Virgin Mother of God and Our Lord Himself.

He was praying one day for the conversion of souls when he beheld a fervent nun of the Order of St. Francis doing as he did; her eyes were bathed in tears, and she was prostrate at the feet of Our Lord. He heard Christ say to her: “Thy tears, My daughter, are most agreeable, and I joyfully hear thy prayers; but these ungrateful and guilty people who outrage the law and blaspheme My Name have little claim on My pity; on the contrary, they provoke My justice.” At the same time Our Lord revealed to the Saint that this nun was Colette, the illustrious Saint who labored with much fruit for the reformation of the Sisters of her Order. Vincent was filled with admiration and delight at this spectacle.

On another day, while he celebrated Mass at Valencia, on his return from one of his apostolic journeys, he saw appear before him, and as it were over the altar, a woman surrounded with flames and holding in her arms a little disfigured child. Astonished at such a vision, he adjured the woman, in the Name of the Lord, to tell him who she was and what she wanted. She was one of his own sisters, named Frances, who had been dead some time. She had married a rich merchant. The latter having been obliged to undertake a long journey, the chief servant of his house profited by his absence to constrain the merchant’s wife to commit sin with him, under the threat of death unless she consented. She was weak enough to yield; but recovering from her fright, and being covered with shame in her own eyes, she poisoned the man to rid herself of his foul presence; and as she had conceived, she destroyed the offspring before it was born. To complete her misery, she dared not avow these crimes in Confession and so she added to these murders numerous sacrileges. At length, remorse filled her soul. She made her Confession to an unknown priest, with the greatest sorrow for her crimes, and died three days afterward. God having condemned her to an expiation of terrible duration [in Purgatory], she addressed herself to her brother to abridge its length. She indeed appeared again to St. Vincent three days afterward in glory, crowned with flowers, surrounded by Angels and ascending to Heaven; thus did she disappear from his sight.1 The rest of his family gave him the purest consolations. He beheld the souls of his father, mother, brother and other sisters ascend to Heaven without passing through the flames of Purgatory.

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