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    Saint Alphonsus Ligouri
    Saint Alphonsus Ligouri
    Saint Alphonsus Ligouri
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    Saint Alphonsus Ligouri

    By Bob Lord and Penny Lord

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    Saint Alphonsus Ligouri a Doctor of the Church We go to St. Agata dei Goti in Southern Italy, where he was bishop. We visited the museum,and 2 of the 111 books he wrote, for which he is proclaimed as a Doctor of the Church. Continue on to Nocera Pagani,where he founded the Order of Redemptorists and returned after 13 years as bishop of Sant' Agata and where he died.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJourneys of Faith
    Release dateSep 15, 2010
    ISBN9781452360218
    Saint Alphonsus Ligouri
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    Bob Lord

    Bob and Penny Lord renowned Catholic Authors and hosts on EWTN. They are best known for their media on Miracles of the Eucharist and Many Faces of Mary. They have been dubbed experts on the Catholic Saints. They produced over 200 television programs for EWTN global television network and wrote over 25 books and hundreds of ebooks.

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      Saint Alphonsus Ligouri - Bob Lord

      Saint Alphonsus Ligouri

      Bob and Penny Lord

      Published by Bob and Penny Lord at Smashwords

      Copyright 2010 Bob and Penny Lord

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      Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)

      Lawyer - Bishop - Founder -Religious Superior - Theologian - Mystic - Author - Poet - Doctor of the Church - Missionary

      Who is this Saint Alphonsus, who has so many credits to his name? In order to answer that question, we must travel to Marianella, a village near Naples, in the troubled days of the 18th Century.

      As God made a promise, He would not leave us orphans, the Church was under attack! Send a future Defender of the Faith! Unrest was spreading throughout Europe and the American colonies; and it would not leave Italy free from its tentacles. We were in the Age of Enlightenment, where the philosophy was an egocentric, prideful belief in the power of human reason, rather than the universal, Catholic belief in and dependence on God. Great enemies of the Roman Catholic Church, and all forms of religion, those egotists, fostering this theory, placed the focus on knowledge derived through the study of nature, rather than of the One Who created nature. Promulgators or promoters of this ideology, writers of that period, like Voltaire, accused the Roman Catholic Church of having enslaved the human mind. Although they did not go so far as to completely reject religion, they formed a new cultist form of religion called Deism, accepting the existence of God, on purely rational grounds, without reliance on Revelation or Authority. They rejected all forms of Christianity - consequently the existence of Jesus Christ. They promoted the rationale that human aspirations should be centered on the now, life on

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