Description
by D. ALPHONSI de LIGORIO
Tomus Primus
Venice; 1793
Size 8 by 10 1/4"
Original half vellum over marbled boards, manuscript title to the spine
Some toning, foxing, some damage to the binding
Text in Latin
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori CSsR (1696 – 1787) was an Italian Catholic bishop and saint, as well as a 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 is also associated with the manualist tradition of moral theology and seminary education, which was highly influential in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
He was canonised 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.
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1793 THEOLOGY by ALPHONSI de LIGORIO antique in LATIN THEOLOGIA MORALIS
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