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St. Alphonsus Liguori

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Born at Marianella, near Naples, 27 September, 1696; died at Nocera de' Pagani, 1 August, 1787. The eighteenth century was not an age remarkable for depth of spiritual life, yet it produced three of the greatest missionaries of the Church, St. Leonard of Port Maurice, St. Paul of the Cross, and St. Alphonsus Liguori. Alphonsus Mary Antony John Cosmas Damian Michael Gaspard de' Liguori was born in his father's country house at Marianella near Naples, on Tuesday, 27 September, 1696. He was baptized two days later in the church of Our Lady of the Virgins, in Naples. The family was an old and noble one, though the branch to which the Saint belonged had become somewhat impoverished. Alphonsus's father, Don Joseph de' Liguori was a naval officer and Captain of the Royal Galleys. The Saint's mother was of Spanish descent, and if, as there can be little doubt, race is an element in individual character, we may see in Alphonsus's Spanish blood some explanation of the enormous tenacity of purpose which distinguished him from his earli

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Alphonsus Liguori

Italian Catholic bishop (1696–1787)

Saint Alphonsus Liguori CSsR

Metropolis	Benevento
Diocese	Sant'Agata de' Goti
See	Sant'Agata de' Goti
Appointed	14 June 1762
Installed	20 June 1762
Term ended	26 June 1775
Predecessor	Flaminius Danza
Successor	Onofrio de Rossi
Ordination	21 December 1726
Consecration	20 June 1762 by Ferdinando Maria de Rossi
Born	(1696-09-27)27 September 1696 Marianella, Campania, Kingdom of Naples
Died	1 August 1787(1787-08-01) (aged 90) Pagani, Campania, Kingdom of Naples
Denomination	Catholic Church
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Venerated in	Catholic Church
Title as Saint	Bishop, Moral Theologian, Confessor and Doctor of the Church
Beatified	15 September 1816 Rome, Papal States by Pope Pius VII
Canonized	26 May 1839 Rome, Papal States by Pope Gregory XVI
Patronage	Pagani, Cancello, Naples (co-patron); arthritis, lawyers, confessors, moralists, vocations
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St. Alphonsus

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St. Alphonsus was born of noble parents, near Naples, in 1696. His spiritual training was entrusted to the Fathers of the Oratory in that city, and from his boyhood Alphonsus was known as a most devout Brother of the Little Oratory. At the early age of sixteen he was made doctor in law, and he threw himself into this career with ardor and success. A mistake, by which he lost an important cause, showed him the vanity of human fame, and determined him to labor only for the glory of God. He entered the priesthood, devoting himself to the most neglected souls; and to carry on this work he founded later the missionary Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer. At the age of sixty-six he became Bishop of St. Agatha, and undertook the reform of his diocese with the zeal of a Saint. He made a vow never to lose time, and, though his number of books, filled with such science, unction, and wisdom that he has been declared one of the Doctors of the Church. St. Alphonsus wrote his first book at the age of forty-nine, and in his eighty-third year had publ