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Born in Naples, Alphonsus Liguori practiced law as a young man, but abandoned his career to become a priest. In 1732 he organized a group of missioners to work among the poor in rural areas. This group became the religious congregation known as the Redemptorists.

He was a skilled preacher whose sermons reached the simplest peasant. He was also a brilliant and compassionate theologian who championed the individual conscience and God’s mercy against the Jansenists and other rigorists of his day who preached a religion of fear and anguish. His theology was rooted in his many years of firsthand pastoral ministry to the poor.

Alphonsus was also an artist. He played the harpsichord, wrote hymns, a...