Feast August 1
Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
Bishop, patron of Pagani · Feast August 1
Biography
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 1732.
Feast day
August 1
Patronage
- Pagani
- Cancello
- Naples (co-patron)
- arthritis
- lawyers
- confessors
- moralists
- vocations
Birth date
1696-09-27
Death date
1787-08-01
Canonization status
Canonized
Canonization date
26 May 1839
Canonized by
Pope Gregory XVI
Feast month
8
Wikidata qid
Q273334
Content subtype
saint_biography
Feast day of month
1