Liguori: - St.
His feast is celebrated on August 1..
He was canonized by Pope Gregory XVI in 1839, and declared a Doctor of the Church in 1871.
Alphonsus Liguori died on the first of August, 1787.
After being a bishop for over a decade, St.
He also founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, and authored such works as The Glories of Mary , The True Spouse of Jesus Christ , Attaining Salvation , The Blessed Virgin Mary , Preparation for Death Abridged , What Will Hell Be Like? , The Twelve Steps to Holiness and Salvation , and The Way of the Cross .
The homilies he gave had the special ability of converting those who had fallen away from the faith.
Philip Neri as a seminarian and was ordained in 1726, when he was thirty.
Alphonsus joined the Oratory of St.
He became a recognizable lawyer after going through law school at the age of sixteen, but later decided to leave law in favor of giving his salvation more attention.
Alphonsus Liguori was born in 1696 to Neapolitan nobility at Marianella, Italy.
Liguori: - St
