Life of Saint Alphonsus Maria Liguori

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Book

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A Sister of Notre Dame

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Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, Redemptorists, Hagiography, Biography

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Saint Alfonso Maria de’ Liguori, Alfonso also spelled Alphonsus, an Italian doctor of the church, one of the chief 18th-century moral theologians, and founder of the Redemptorists, a congregation dedicated primarily to parish and foreign missions. In 1871 he was named a doctor of the church by Pope Pius IX. In 1950 he was named patron saint of moralists and confessors by Pope Pius XII.

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