By Dawn Beutner, The Catholic Thing - I would like to draw attention to how a saint acted when faced with a similar situation, though it had nothing to do with a disease and everything to do with bringing wisdom to an international crisis... St. Vincent Ferrer was a Spanish Dominican priest who lived in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries... He lived during the time of the Western Schism (1378-1418), a complex political situation with a complicated history. In brief, Vincent was a prominent Catholic leader when three separate men claimed to be the pope.