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Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, CSsR (27 September 1696 – 1 August 1787) was an Italian Catholic bishop and saint, as well as a spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian.
After the eighth edition in 1779, Alphonsus considered his work definitive, and in 1785 the ninth edition finalized the book's contents. [2] Since his death, many further editions have been published, including a partially completed English edition from Mediatrix Press, the first volume of which was released in 2017.
Liguori, Missouri, unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Missouri, United States; Saint-Liguori, Quebec, parish municipality located on the Rouge River in the Regional County Municipality of Montcalm in Quebec; Church of St. Alphonsus Liguori, Rome, church located on the Via Merulana on the Esquiline Hill of Rome, Italy
The book was written in part as a defense of Marian devotion at a time when it had come under criticism. The book combines numerous citations in favor of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary from the Church Fathers and the Doctors of the Church with Saint Alphonsus' own personal views on Marian veneration and includes a number of Marian prayers and practices.
The Redemptorists, officially named the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Latin: Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris), abbreviated CSsR, [1] is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men (priests and brothers).
It received positive commentary from theologians including St. Alphonsus de Liguori, a Doctor of the Church. [3] The book met no significant opposition until Claude Lacroix (1652-1714) added considerably to its bulk. [2] His editions in two folio volumes appeared in both Germany (1710–1714) and France (1729).
These include the meetings in Patmos (1980), Munich (1982), Crete and Bari (1984), Vienna and Freising (1990), and at the Balamand Monastery (1993). [1] In May 1999, Romania was the first majority-Orthodox country to be visited by Pope John Paul II, who was personally welcomed by Teoctist Arăpașu, the Patriarch of All Romania. [48]
Loci Theologici was a term applied by Melanchthon to Protestant systems of dogmatics and retained by many as late as the seventeenth century. It is also a way of ordering the strength of different sources used in Catholic theology usually attributed to Melchor Cano and still in use today.