Alphonsus Liguori (1696–1787)

Founder of the Redemptorists; author of The Glories of Mary and Moral Theology. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori 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.