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SAINT ALPHONSUS DE LIGUORI COLLECTION [20 BOOKS] — Quality Formatting and Value — Active Index, Multiple Table of Contents for all Books — Multiple Illustrations Saint Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori, C.Ss.R. (27 September 1696 – 1 August 1787), 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 (the Redemptorists). 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. Pope Pius IX proclaimed him a Doctor of the Church in 1871. One of the most widely read Catholic authors, Alphonsus Liguori is the patron saint of confessors. —BOOKS— CONSIDERATIONS DIGNITY AND DUTIES OF THE PRIEST: A COLLECTION OF MATERIALS FOR ECCLESIASTICAL RETREATS MISCELLANY SERMONS: FOR ALL THE SUNDAYS IN THE YEAR SIX DISCOURSES ON NATURAL CALAMITIES, DIVINE THREATS, AND THE FOUR GATES OF HELL THE DIVINE OFFICE: EXPLANATION OF THE PSALMS AND CANTICLES THE GLORIES OF MARY GREAT MEANS OF SALVATION AND OF PERFECTION THE HISTORY OF HERESIES AND THEIR REFUTATION THE HOLY MASS THE INCARNATION, BIRTH AND INFANCY OF JESUS CHRIST THE PASSION AND THE DEATH OF JESUS CHRIST THE PRACTICE OF THE LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST THE SCHISM AND HERESY OF ENGLAND THE SCHOOL OF CHRISTIAN PERFECTION THE TRUE SPOUSE OF JESUS CHRIST THE VICTORIES OF THE MARTYRS THE WAY OF SALVATION AND OF PERFECTION THE WAY OF THE CROSS UNIFORMITY WITH GOD'S WILL PUBLISHER: AETERNA PRESS