St. Alphonsus
Title: St. Alphonsus
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 7425 | Pages: 27 (approximately 235 words/page)
St. Alphonsus
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 7425 | Pages: 27 (approximately 235 words/page)
Alphonsus, like so many saints, had an excellent father and a saintly mother. Don Joseph de' Liguori had his faults. He was somewhat worldly and ambitious, at any rate for his son, and was rough tempered when opposed. But he was a man of genuine faith and piety and stainless life, and he meant his son to be the same. Even when taking him into society in order to arrange a good marriage for him,
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fourteen who had already shown great gallantry under fire and was to play a romantic part in history, Prince Charles Edward Stuart. But one may easily overcrowd a narrow canvas and it is better in so slight a sketch to leave the central figure in solitary relief. If any reader of this article will go to original sources and study the Saint's life at greater length, he will not find his labour thrown away.