RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Alphonsus Liguori

1696 - 1787

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Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alphonsus Liguori is the 474th most popular religious figure (up from 476th in 2019), the 529th most popular biography from Italy (up from 550th in 2019) and the 223rd most popular Italian Religious Figure.

Alphonsus Liguori is most famous for his book, The Glories of Mary.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Alphonsus Liguori ranks 474 out of 3,187. Before him are Clement of Ohrid, Tiye, Hannah, Barabbas, Zacchaeus, and Sabbatai Zevi. After him are Eber, Tarcisio Bertone, Mary of Egypt, Isaac of Nineveh, Januarius, and Gregory Palamas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1696, Alphonsus Liguori ranks 4. Before him are Mahmud I, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and Augustus III of Poland. After him are Maurice de Saxe, Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Shah Jahan II, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, James Oglethorpe, Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, and Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. Among people deceased in 1787, Alphonsus Liguori ranks 4. Before him are Christoph Willibald Gluck, Leopold Mozart, and Roger Joseph Boscovich. After him are Carl Friedrich Abel, Pompeo Batoni, Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Louise of France, Şahin Giray, Johann Karl August Musäus, William Watson, and Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alphonsus Liguori ranks 529 out of 5,161. Before him are Arturo Toscanini (1867), Pope Miltiades (250), Riccardo Giacconi (1931), John Cabot (1450), Joanna I of Naples (1326), and Aurelia Cotta (-120). After him are Roberto Rossellini (1906), Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835), Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1549), Tarcisio Bertone (1934), Peter Damian (1007), and Trebonianus Gallus (206).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Alphonsus Liguori ranks 223. Before him are Pope Stephen VII (850), Pope John III (520), Pope Hilarius (415), Pope Stephen VIII (900), Pope Valentine (780), and Pope Miltiades (250). After him are Tarcisio Bertone (1934), Januarius (272), Pope Agapetus II (900), Pope Agapetus I (490), Pope Benedict V (930), and Pope Stephen II (715).

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