Saint Alphonsus for Every Day

<p>Saint Alphonsus de Liguori (1696-1787) Doctor of the Church was a legal savant who was awarded a double doctorate in law at the age of sixteen. Born into a noble Italian family St. Alphonsus soon abandoned his legal career to care for the poor and ill of Naples. In 1732 he founded a new missionary society the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (the Redemptorists). His literary career surprisingly did not begin until he was nearly fifty but from that point on his pen was never at rest composing an unfathomable 111 works on areas covering apologetics ecclesiastical discipline dogmatic theology ascetical theology and moral theology-this last he was most known for. This present book draws from many of St. Alphonsus's works in a reader-friendly a-thought-a-day format. Readable as well as humane and likeable St. Alphonsus Liguori is a saint relevant to the current human condition.</p>