Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787), Bishop and Doctor of the Church, abandoned a legal career to become a priest and founded the Redemptorists to preach to the poor and abandoned. A gentle confessor and the father of modern moral theology, he wrote enduring works of devotion such as The Glories of Mary. He was canonized in 1839.

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• moral theologians
• confessors
• the scrupulous

Canonized

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