Alphonsus Liguori
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Alphonsus Liguori, CSsR, sometimes called Alphonsus Maria de Liguori or Saint Alphonsus Liguori, was an Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian. Wikipedia
Born: September 27, 1696, Marianella, Naples, Italy
Died: August 1, 1787 (age 90 years), Pagani, Italy
Parents: Anna Cavalieri Liguori and Don Joseph de' Liguori
Canonized: 26 May 1839; Rome, Papal States; by Pope Gregory XVI
Consecration: 20 June 1762; by Ferdinando Maria de Rossi
Diocese: Sant'Agata de' Goti
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