Alphonsus Liguori
Italian Catholic bishop and saint (1696-1787) · Italy · Religious Figures · Died at 90
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Something wrong?An eighteenth-century bishop who wrote the manual on moral theology that shaped Catholic seminary training for a century - and composed music on the side. His devotional texts are still printed, his Stations of the Cross still walked every Lent.
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, Prayer must be humble: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Here St.
Let us examine in what true wisdom consists, and we shall see, in the first point, that sinners are truly foolish, and, in the second, that the saints are truly wise.
My Jesus, I love Thee with my whole heart, and I desire to be always united with Thee. Since I cannot now receive Thee sacramentally, I receive Thee spiritually.
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About this person
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori was born in Naples in September 1696 and trained as a lawyer before turning to the priesthood. In November 1732 he founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer - the Redemptorists - and spent three decades writing, preaching, and revising his Moral Theology, which went through nine editions in his lifetime. He was appointed Bishop of Sant'Agata de' Goti in 1762. His devotional works, especially The Glories of Mary and The Way of the Cross, became fixtures of Catholic practice. He was canonised in 1839, declared a Doctor of the Church in 1871, and remains the patron saint of confessors.
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