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In bestowing the title of "Prince of Moral Theologians", the church also gave the "unprecedented honour she paid to the Saint in her Decree of 22 July 1831, which allows confessors to follow any of St. Alphonsus's own opinions without weighing the reasons on which they were based".<ref>{{Cite web|title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Alphonsus Liguori|url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01334a.htm|access-date=4 August 2021|website=www.newadvent.org}}</ref> The church did not bestow this unique privilege lightly but was due to the extraordinary combination of exceptional knowledge and understanding of church teachings combined with the great precision in which he wrote. |
In bestowing the title of "Prince of Moral Theologians", the church also gave the "unprecedented honour she paid to the Saint in her Decree of 22 July 1831, which allows confessors to follow any of St. Alphonsus's own opinions without weighing the reasons on which they were based".<ref>{{Cite web|title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Alphonsus Liguori|url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01334a.htm|access-date=4 August 2021|website=www.newadvent.org}}</ref> The church did not bestow this unique privilege lightly but was due to the extraordinary combination of exceptional knowledge and understanding of church teachings combined with the great precision in which he wrote. |
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Alphonsus Liguori | |
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Bishop of Sant'Agata de' Goti Doctor of the Church | |
Metropolis | Benevento |
Diocese | Sant'Agata de' Goti |
See | Sant'Agata de' Goti |
Appointed | 14 June 1762 |
Installed | 20 June 1762 |
Term ended | 26 June 1775 |
Predecessor | Flaminius Danza |
Successor | Onofrio de Rossi |
Orders | |
Ordination | 21 December 1726 |
Consecration | 20 June 1762 by Ferdinando Maria de Rossi |
Personal details | |
Born | Marianella, Campania, Kingdom of Naples | 27 September 1696
Died | 1 August 1787 Pagani, Campania, Kingdom of Naples | (aged 90)
Denomination | Latin-rite Catholic |
Sainthood | |
Feast day |
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Venerated in | Catholic Church |
Title as Saint | Bishop, Moral Theologian, Confessor and Doctor of the Church |
Beatified | 15 September 1816 Rome, Papal States by Pope Pius VII |
Canonized | 26 May 1839 Rome, Papal States by Pope Gregory XVI |
Patronage | Pagani, Cancello, Naples (co-patron); arthritis, lawyers, confessors, moralists, vocations |
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Alphonsus Liguori, CSsR (27 September 1696 – 1 August 1787), 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. He founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, known as the Redemptorists, in November 1732.
In 1762 he was appointed Bishop of Sant'Agata dei Goti. A prolific writer, he published nine editions of his Moral Theology in his lifetime, in addition to other devotional and ascetic works and letters. Among his best known works are The Glories of Mary and The Way of the Cross, the latter still used in parishes during Lenten devotions.
He was canonized in 1839 by Pope Gregory XVI and proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius IX in 1871. One of the most widely read Catholic authors, he is the patron saint of confessors.[2][3]
Early years
He was born in Marianella, near Naples, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, on 27 September 1696. He was the eldest of seven children of Giuseppe Liguori, a naval officer and Captain of the Royal Galleys, and Anna Maria Caterina Cavalieri. Two days after he was born, he was baptized at the Church of Our Lady the Virgin as Alphonsus Mary Anthony John Cosmas Damian Michael Gaspard de' Liguori. The family was of noble lineage, but the branch to which Liguori belonged had become somewhat impoverished.[4]
Education
Liguori learned to ride and fence but was never a good shot because of poor eyesight.[4] Myopia and chronic asthma precluded a military career so his father had him educated in the legal profession. He was taught by tutors before entering the University of Naples, where he graduated with doctorates in civil and canon law at 16.[5] He remarked later that he was so small at the time that he was almost buried in his doctor's gown and that all the spectators laughed.[4] When he was 18, like many other nobles, he joined the Confraternity of Our Lady of Mercy, with whom he assisted in the care of the sick at the hospital for "incurables".[6]
He became a successful lawyer. He was thinking of leaving the profession and wrote to someone, "My friend, our profession is too full of difficulties and dangers; we lead an unhappy life and run risk of dying an unhappy death".[7] At 27, after having lost an important case, the first he had lost in eight years of practising law, he made a firm resolution to leave the profession of law.[2] Moreover, he heard an interior voice saying: "Leave the world, and give yourself to me."[5]
Calling to the Priesthood
In 1723, he decided to offer himself as a novice to the Oratory of St. Philip Neri with the intention of becoming a priest. His father opposed the plan, but after two months (and with his Oratorian confessor's permission), he and his father compromised: he would study for the priesthood, but not as an Oratorian, and would live at home.[4] He was ordained on 21 December 1726, at the age of 30. He lived his first years as a priest with the homeless and the marginalized youth of Naples. He became very popular because of his plain and simple preaching. He said: "I have never preached a sermon which the poorest old woman in the congregation could not understand".[5] He founded the Evening Chapels, which were managed by the young people themselves. The chapels were centres of prayer and piety, preaching, community, social activities, and education. At the time of his death, there were 72, with over 10,000 active participants. His sermons were very effective at converting those who had been alienated from their faith.
Liguori suffered from scruples much of his adult life and felt guilty about the most minor issues relating to sin.[8] Moreover, Liguori viewed scruples as a blessing at times and wrote: "Scruples are useful in the beginning of conversion.... they cleanse the soul, and at the same time make it careful".[9]
In 1729, Liguori left his family home and took up residence at the Chinese Institute in Naples.[7] It was there that he began his missionary experience in the interior regions of the Kingdom of Naples, where he found people who were much poorer and more abandoned than any of the street children in Naples. In 1731, while he was ministering to earthquake victims in the town of Foggia, Alphonsus said he had a vision of the Virgin Mother in the appearance of a young girl of 13 or 14, wearing a white veil.[7]
Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer
On 9 November 1732, he founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer,[10] when Sister Maria Celeste Crostarosa told him that it had been revealed to her that he was the one that God had chosen to found the congregation. He founded the congregation with the charism of preaching popular missions in the city and the countryside. Its goal was to teach and preach in the slums of cities and other poor places. They also fought Jansenism, a heresy that preached an excessive moral rigorism: "the penitents should be treated as souls to be saved rather than as criminals to be punished". He is said never to have refused absolution to a penitent.[5]
A gifted musician and composer, he wrote many popular hymns and taught them to the people in parish missions. In 1732, while he was staying at the Convent of the Consolation, one of his order's houses in the small city of Deliceto in the province of Foggia in Southeastern Italy, Liguori wrote the Italian carol "Tu scendi dalle stelle" ("From Starry Skies Descending") in the musical style of a pastorale. The version with Italian lyrics was based on his original song written in Neapolitan, which began Quanno nascette Ninno ("When the child was born"). As it was traditionally associated with the zampogna, or large-format Italian bagpipe, it became known as Canzone d'i zampognari, the "Carol of the Bagpipers".[11]
Bishop of Sant' Agata de Goti
Liguori was consecrated Bishop of Sant'Agata dei Goti in 1762.[10] He tried to refuse the appointment by using his age and infirmities as arguments against his consecration. He wrote sermons, books, and articles to encourage devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and the Blessed Virgin Mary. He first addressed ecclesiastical abuses in the diocese, reformed the seminary and spiritually rehabilitated the clergy and faithful. He suspended those priests who celebrated Mass in less than 15 minutes and sold his carriage and episcopal ring to give the money to the poor. In the last years of his life, he suffered a painful sickness and bitter persecution from his fellow priests, who dismissed him from the Congregation that he had founded.[5]
Death
By May 1775, Alphonus was "deaf, blind, and laden with so many infirmities, that he has no longer even the appearance of a man", and his resignation was accepted by the recently crowned Pope Pius VI. He continued to live with the Redemptorist community in Pagani, Italy, where he died on 1 August 1787.[12]
Veneration and legacy
He was beatified on 15 September 1816 by Pope Pius VII and canonized on 26 May 1839 by Pope Gregory XVI.[13][14]
In 1949, the Redemptorists founded the Alphonsian Academy for the advanced study of Catholic moral theology. He was named the patron of confessors and moral theologians by Pope Pius XII on 26 April 1950, who subsequently wrote of him in the encyclical Haurietis aquas.
In bestowing the title of "Prince of Moral Theologians", the church also gave the "unprecedented honour she paid to the Saint in her Decree of 22 July 1831, which allows confessors to follow any of St. Alphonsus's own opinions without weighing the reasons on which they were based".[15] The church did not bestow this unique privilege lightly but was due to the extraordinary combination of exceptional knowledge and understanding of church teachings combined with the great precision in which he wrote.
Manualism
Manualism designates an approach Christian ethics, especially in Catholic moral theology,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22], associated with Alphonsus Liguori[23][24] and the tradition of "moral manuals" (instruction manuals teaching explicitly right and wrong)[25][26][27][28] which came from him.[29]
The manualist tradition has an ambivalent relationship with scholasticism.[30][31][27][32] David Bentley Hart[26] among others[24][27][32] state that much of contemporary Thomism has more manualism than Aquinas himself.
The manualist tradition is related to casuistry – Reasoning by extrapolation.[28]
Manualism is associated with the theology surrounding artificial birth control.[33]
Works
Overview
Liguori was a prolific and popular author.[10] He was proficient in the arts, his parents having had him trained by various masters, and he was a musician, painter, poet and author at the same time. Liguori wrote 111 works on spirituality and theology.[34] The 21,500 editions and the translations into 72 languages that his works have undergone attest to the fact that he is one of the most widely-read Catholic authors.
His best-known musical work is his Christmas hymn Quanno Nascetti Ninno, later translated into Italian by Pope Pius IX as Tu scendi dalle stelle ("From Starry Skies Thou Comest").
A strong defender of the Catholic Church, Liguori said:
To reject the divine teaching of the Catholic Church is to reject the very basis of reason and revelation, for neither the principles of the one nor those of the other have any longer any solid support to rest on; they can then be interpreted by every one as he pleases; every one can deny all truths whatsoever he chooses to deny. I therefore repeat: If the divine teaching authority of the Church, and the obedience to it, are rejected, every error will be endorsed and must be tolerated."[35][36]
Moral theology
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Liguori's greatest contribution to the Catholic Church was in the area of moral theology. His masterpiece was The Moral Theology (1748), which was approved by the Pope himself[5] and was born of Liguori's pastoral experience, his ability to respond to the practical questions posed by the faithful and his contact with their everyday problems. He opposed sterile legalism and strict rigourism. According to him, those were paths closed to the Gospel because "such rigour has never been taught nor practised by the Church". His system of moral theology is noted for its prudence, avoiding both laxism and excessive rigour. He is credited with the position of Aequiprobabilism, which avoided Jansenist rigorism as well as laxism and simple probabilism. Since its publication, it has remained in Latin, often in 10 volumes or in the combined 4-volume version of Gaudé. It saw only recently its first publication in translation, in an English translation made by Ryan Grant and published in 2017 by Mediatrix Press. The English translation of the work is projected to be around 5 volumes.[37]
Mariology
His Mariology, though mainly pastoral in nature, rediscovered, integrated and defended that of St Augustine of Hippo, St Ambrose of Milan and other fathers; it represented an intellectual defence of Mariology in the 18th century, the Age of Enlightenment, against the rationalism to which contrasted his fervent Marian devotion.[38]
- The Glories of Mary[39]
- Marian Devotion
- Prayers to the Divine Mother
- Spiritual Songs
- The True Spouse of Jesus Christ[40] (original: La Vera Sposa di Gesu-Cristo, cioè la Monaca Santa per Mezzo delle Virtù proprie d’una Religiosa (first edition: 1760–61))[41]
Other works
- Great Means of Salvation and of Perfection[42]
- The Way of Salvation and of Perfection[43]
- The Way of the Cross[44]
- The Triumph of the Church over all heresies. A History of Heresies and Their Refutation
- The Council of Trent
- Truth of the Faith ("Verita della Fede", there is no known English translation of this book from the Italian)
- Preparation for Death
- The Incarnation, Birth and Infancy of Jesus Christ[45]
- The Holy Eucharist[46]
- Uniformity with God's Will (pamphlet)[47]
- Victories of the Martyrs[48]
- Sermons for all the Sundays in the year
See also
- Index of Catholic Church articles
- Mental prayer
- Saint Alphonsus Liguori, patron saint archive
- St. Alphonsus 'Rock' Liguori Church (St. Louis)
- Teresa of Ávila
- Principle of double effect – Christian ethical consideration
- Formalism (philosophy) – Concept of focusing on form over concept
- Legalism (theology) – Pejorative for performative Christianity
- Neo-scholasticism – Scholasticism revival
References
- ^ Calendarium Romanum (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 1969), p. 99
- ^ a b Miller, D.F. and Aubin, L.X., St. Alphonsus Liguori, Tan Books, 2009, ISBN 9780895553294
- ^ Lives of St. Alphonsus Liguori (from "Vita di S. A. M. de Liguori"), St. Francis de Girolamo (from "Vita del B. Francisco di Girolamo dal Padre L. degli Oddi"), St. John Joseph of the Cross (from "Compendio della vita di Giangiuseppe, data in luce dal Postulatore della causa"), St. Pacificus of San Severino (from "Compendio della vita del B. Pacifico"), and St. Veronica Giuliani (from "Vita della B. Veronica Giuliani, da F. M. Salvatori"); whose canonization took place on Trinity Sunday, May 26th, 1839. C. Dolman. 1839.
- ^ a b c d Castle, Harold (1913). "St. Alphonsus Liguori". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ a b c d e f Fr. Paolo O. Pirlo, SHMI (1997). "St. Alphonsus Liguori". My First Book of Saints. Sons of Holy Mary Immaculate – Quality Catholic Publications. pp. 166–167. ISBN 971-91595-4-5.
- ^ "St. Alphonsus Liguori, Our Founder", Redemptorists, Baltimore Province Archived 12 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c Tannoja, Antonio. "The life of St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori" (1855)John Murphy & Co., Baltimore, 1855
- ^ Selected writings by Saint Alfonso Maria de' Liguori, 1999 ISBN 0-8091-3771-2 p. 209
- ^ The true spouse of Jesus Christ: The complete works of Saint Alphonsus de Liguori 1929, Redemptorist Fathers Press, ASIN B00085J4WM, p. 545
- ^ a b c "Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori", St. Alphonsus Liguori Parish, Peterborough, Ontario Archived 11 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Carol of the Bagpipers". The Hymns and Carols of Christmas. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
- ^ The life of St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Bishop of St. Agatha of the Goths and founder of the Congregation of the Holy Redeemer, Tannoja, Antonio (d. 1808), John Murphy & Co. (1855)
- ^ Mercy, Member of the Order of; Press, Aeterna (1906). The Life of Saint Alphonsus Liguori. Aeterna Press.
- ^ Miller, Fr D. F.; Aubin, Fr L. X. (1940). St. Alphonsus Liguori: Doctor of the Church. TAN Books. ISBN 978-1-5051-0374-8.
- ^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Alphonsus Liguori". www.newadvent.org. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics - Page 508 Gilbert Meilaender, William Werpehowski · 2007 FOUND INSIDE – PAGE 508 the manualists: 'no period is more important in the history of moral theology than the late 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries'. But he then added, 'this is perhaps less a criticism of M. than a reXection on our almost complete ...
- ^ Boersma, Hans. “Nature and the Supernatural in La Nouvelle Théologie: The Recovery of a Sacramental Mindset.” New Blackfriars, vol. 93, no. 1043, 2012, pp. 34–46. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43251594. Accessed 12 Mar. 2023.
- ^ Hart, David Bentley (2020). Theological Territories: A David Bentley Hart Digest. University of Notre Dame Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctv19m638q.15. ISBN 978-0-268-10717-8. JSTOR j.ctv19m638q.
- ^ Genilo, Eric Marcelo O. (2007). John Cuthbert Ford, SJ: Moral Theologian at the End of the Manualist Era. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-1-58901-181-6. JSTOR j.ctt2tt41x.
- ^ Senz, Nicholas. "Shifting Away From Manualism: On Forming Consciences". Church Life Journal. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
- ^ Engelhardt, H. Tristram (November 2011). "Orthodox Christian Bioethics: Some Foundational Differences from Western Christian Bioethics". Studies in Christian Ethics. 24 (4): 487–499. doi:10.1177/0953946811415018. ISSN 0953-9468. S2CID 147395651.
the Counter-Reformation, the manualist tradition produced a wealth of reflections between
- ^ Wicks, Jared. Gregorianum, vol. 67, no. 2, 1986, pp. 374–76. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23577203. Accessed 12 Mar. 2023.
- ^ Haddorff, David W. "Relying on Aquinas, Prudently." (1998): 562-564. position of Alphonsus Liguori. It was not only Liguori's manualist method of applying...
- ^ a b KROM, MICHAEL P. "Review" (PDF). Journal of Moral Theology.
manualist tradition's focus on the distinction between material and formal cooperation with evil as well as on the intention of those who so cooperate is at least implicit in our modes of argumentation.
Flannery begins by showing the inadequacies of the approach to cooperation with evil found in St. Alphonsus Liguori and the subsequent manualist tradition. Most pointedly, Liguori uses Aquinas's theory of morally indifferent acts in order to clarify his own position on material cooperation and yet, as becomes even clearer in the later manualists, this ends up revealing the problems with his own analysis. In chapter 2, Flannery finds the answer to these problems by focusing on Aquinas's account of how circumstances factor into the morality of indifferent acts. Rather than focus on the intention of the cooperator, Aquinas looks at the broader issues of whether or not an action is consistent with reason, justice, and charity. Chapter 3 helps to clarify all of this via the issue of scandal: Alphonsus ignores all others affected by acts of cooperation as well as "how the actions performed relate to the ultimate end and order of the moral universe" (122). - ^ Thomas Worcester (2017). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Jesuits.
After the Council of Trent until the twentieth century, moral theology was shaped by the moral manuals used in seminaries to form future confessors. Manualist moral theology was concerned with avoidance of sin and obedience
- ^ a b Hart, David Bentley (1 June 2015). "Romans 8:19-22". First Things (254). Institute on Religion and Public Life: 72–74.
In theological circles, the term "Thomism" (or "traditional Thomism" or "manualist Thomism" or "two-tier Thomism") typically refers not to the writings of Thomas himself, or even to any given scholar[...]who happens to study Thomas's thought, but to a particular faction of Baroque neoscholasticism, which began in the sixteenth century, principally with Domingo Banez, and which largely died out in the twentieth, principally with Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange.
This was the tradition that produced the infamous Thomist "manuals," and that a succession of Catholic scholars [...] assailed as an impoverished early modern distortion of the medieval synthesis, - ^ a b c "A brief history of the Catholic Church's teaching on mercy and sin". America Magazine. 15 December 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
In fact, scholasticism and not manualism better conveys the tradition's long-term interests and purpose.
- ^ a b McDermott, John (2014). "The Collapse of the Manualist Tradition". Faith Magazine.
Since manualist moralists sought to uphold universal norms even while exercising casuistry for difficult cases, it became fashionable to denounce casuistry and leave individual choices to the individual's informed conscience. For that, manuals were superfluous, especially once proportionalism was introduced into Catholic morality. Universal concepts no longer satisfied.
- ^ Atkinson, Gary M. "Cooperation with Evil: Thomistic Tools of Analysis." American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 95.2 (2021): 337-339.
- ^ Flanagan, Patrick (1 January 2013). "James F. Keenan, A History of Catholic Moral Theology in the Twentieth Century: From Confessing Sins to Liberating Consciences (New York: Continuum, 2010), pp. viii + 248, £17.99, ISBN 978-0-8264-2929-2 (pbk)". International Journal of Public Theology. 7 (2): 229–230. doi:10.1163/15697320-12341290. ISSN 1569-7320.
neo-scholastic Manualist tradition in the second chapter
- ^ "Gallagher, John A., "Time Past, Time Future: An Historical Study of Catholic Moral Theology" (Book Review) - ProQuest". www.proquest.com. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
neo-Thomist manualist tradition
- ^ a b Curran, Charles (1995). "Thomas Joseph Bouquillon: Americanist, Neo-Scholastic, or Manualist?". Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America. ISSN 2328-9902.
His [ Thomas Bouquillon's] neo-scholastic adherence to Thomas Aquinas served as the ultimate basis for his criticism of the manuals.
- ^ Petri, Thomas. Aquinas and the Theology of the Body. CUA Press, 2016. |quote=... in response to the manualist tradition rather than to Aquinas’s ... successively shown the shift of manualist theology away from the work of ... of the manualist tradition that the birth control de- ...
- ^ "Alphonsus Maria de Liguori", Saint Alphonsus Mary de Liguori Parish, Makati City Philippines
- ^ Appendix to his work on the Council of Trent
- ^ Muller, Michael. The Catholic Dogma: Extra Ecclesiam Nullus Omnino Salvatur.
- ^ "1st English Translation of St. Alphonsus Liguori's Moral Theology". Mediatrix Press.
- ^ P Hitz, Alfons v. Liguori, Paterborn 1967, p. 130.
- ^ Liguori, Alphonsus, The Glories of Mary, New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1888. Reprint: Rockford, Ill.: TAN Books, 1968.
- ^ Liguori, Alphonsus. The True Spouse of Jesus Christ, Eugene Grimm, ed., Benziger Brothers, New York, 1888
- ^ de Liguori, Alfonso Maria (1771). La Vera Sposa di Gesu-Cristo, cioè la Monaca Santa per Mezzo delle Virtù proprie d'una Religiosa. Opera dell' Illustriss. e Reverendiss. Mons. D. Alfonso de Liguori Vescovo di Santagata de' Goti e Rettor Maggiore della Congregazione del SS. Redentore; Utile non solo per le Religiose, e Religiosi, ma anche per li Secolari, mentre in essa trattasi della Pratica delle Virtù Cristiane, che spettano ad ogni Stato di Persone. Terza Edizione. Divisa in due tomi. Tomo primo. In fine del Secondo Tomo vi saranno di più le Meditazioni per otto giorni degli Esercizi Spirituali, che sogliono fare molte Religiose privatamente in solitudine. Inoltre vi saranno alcune divote Riflessioni, ed Affetti sull' Istoria della Passione di Gesu-Cristo (3 ed.). Bassano: Spese Remondini di Venezia.
- ^ Liguori, Alphonsus. Great Means of Salvation and of Perfection, Eugene Grimm ed., Benziger Brothers, New York, 1886
- ^ Liguori, Alphonsus. The Way of Salvation and of Perfection, Eugene Grimm ed., Benziger Brothers, New York, 1887
- ^ https://www.avemarialynnfield.org/sites/g/files/zjfyce466/files/2021-01/Stations-of-the-Cross-St-Liguori.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Liguori, Alphonsus. The Incarnation, Birth and Infancy of Jesus Christ, Eugene Grimm ed., Benziger Brothers, New York, 1886
- ^ Liguori, Alphonsus. The Holy Eucharist, Eugene Grimm ed., Benziger Brothers, New York, 1887
- ^ Liguori, Alphonsus (1755). Uniformity with God's Will. Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library. ISBN 978-0895550194.
- ^ Liguori, Alphonsus. Victories of the Martyrs, Eugene Grimm ed., Benziger Brothers, New York, 1887
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "St. Alphonsus Liguori". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
External links
- Works by or about Alphonsus Liguori at the Internet Archive
- Works by Alphonsus Liguori at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Saints Books, E-Book Library of the Works of St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
- Founder Statue in St Peter's Basilica
- Free scores by Alphonsus Liguori in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- Liguori, Alphonsus. The Holy Mass, Eugene Grimm ed., Benziger Brothers, New York, 1887
- Liguori, Alphonsus. Preaching, Eugene Grimm ed., Benziger Brothers, New York, 1887
- Liguori, Alphonsus. Dignity and Duties of the Priest, Eugene Grimm ed., Benziger Brothers, New York, 1889
- Free scores by Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- "Tu scendi dalle stele", Pavaroti
- "St Alphonsus", St. Alphonsus on Catholic Online
- Kennedy, David. The presence of Christ in the Eucharist: a strange neglect of the Resurrection?. MS thesis. Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015.
- Reno, R R. "Theology After the Revolution | R. R. Reno". First Things. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
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