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Alphonsus
Maria de' Liguori
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QUOTE: “It is lawful to put a man to death by public authority: it
is even a duty of princes and judges to condemn to death criminals who deserve
it: and it is the duty of the officers of justice to execute the sentence; God
himself wished malefactors to be punished.”
AUTHOR:
Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori, C.Ss.R. (27
September 1696 – 1 August 1787), was an Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual
writer, composer, 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 Ligouri is the
patron saint of confessors.
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