The Life of St. Alphonsus Liguori: Bishop Confessor and Doctor of the Church Founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Life of St. Alphonsus Liguori: Bishop Confessor and Doctor of the Church Founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer<br><br>When we add his man foundations missions given and repeated in afinost every town and hamlet in the kingdom of Na les innumerable souls guided in the higher pat S of the Spiritual life conventual and educational establishments founded or reformed we may well revert to the marvellous industry of the earlier monastic founders which our saints alone have been able to rival in modern times - to Columbanus who ordained that his monks should go to rest so fatigued as to fall asleep on the way and get up before they had slept enough; for what was the whole life of our saint but an heroic and successful effort to keep religiously the appalling vow by which he bound himself never to waste a moment of time.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.