01/08/2026
Today we celebrate the feast of ST ALPHONSUS LIGUORI
St ALPHONSUS was born in a village of marianella near Naples, italy September 27,1696. As a tender age his pious mother inspired here with the deepest sentiments of piety. The education he received under the auspices of his father, aided by his own intellect, produced in him such results that at the early age of sixteen he graduated in law.
Shortly after, he was admitted to the Neapolitan bar . In 1723, he lost a case , and God made use of this disappointment to wean his hearts from the world. In spite of all opposition he now entered the ecclesiastical state ..
In 1726 , he was ordained priest . He exercises the ministry at various places with great fruit, zealously laboring for his own sanctification.
In 1732 , God called him to found the congregation of the most Holy Redeemer , with the object of laboring for the salvation of the most abandoned souls. Amid untold difficulties and innumerable trials, st aphonsus succeeded in establishing his congregation, which became his glory and crown,but also his cross. The holy founders labored incessantly at the work of the missions until, about 1756, he was appointed Bishop of St Agatha ,na diocese he governed until 1775 , when, broken by age and infirmity, he resigned this office to retire to his convent where he died.
Few saints have labored as much, either by word or writing , as st ALPHONSUS. He was a prolific and the popular Author, the utility of whose works will never characterize by intense suffering, adding adding voluntary multiplications to his other pains . His happy death occurred at Nocera de Pagani, August 1 ,1787.
Saints ALPHONSUS LIGUORI
PRAY FOR US
