Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori, Italian bishop and saint (died 1787)

Alphonsus Liguori

Italian Catholic bishop (1696–1787)

Alphonsus Maria de Liguori was an Italian Catholic bishop and saint, as well as a spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian. He founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, known as the Redemptorists, in November…