Way of the Cross

by Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Thomas A. Santa (Revised by)

Overview

St. Alphonsus was a man in love with Jesus. For Alphonsus, the Stations of the Cross provided the opportunity to meditate on the true meaning of the love of the Most Holy Redeemer. With its poetic translation of the original, this revised version of St. Alphonsus' Way of the Cross--long a parish favorite--offers insight into the mind of a saint and the emotion and passion that formed his devotion.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780764862991
Publisher:	Liguori Publications
Publication date:	06/01/1971
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	24
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Saint Alphonsus Liguori (b. 27 Sept. 1696, d. 1 Oct. 1787) is best known for his Moral Theology writings. Alphonsus founded the Redemptorist Congregation. He made great pastoral reforms in the pulpit and confessional, replacing the pompous oratory of the time with simplicity. For nearly ninety years he had been a model of holiness, prayer, and mortification. Alphonsus fought against Jansenism, which later became condemned as heretical. He spent twenty-six years on the road preaching in the Kingdom of Naples. Saint Alphonsus was made bishop of Palermo at age 66. His life was filled with illness, eight times, he was administered the sacrament of dying. He was declared "Venerable", 4 May, 1796; was beatified in 1816, and canonized in 1839. In 1871, was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius IX.