Saint Alphonsus Ligouri Minibook

Title: Saint Alphonsus LigouriAuthors: Bob and Penny LordPublisher: Journeys of FaithFormat: Printed minibook28 Pages  Doctor of the Church  Who is this Saint Alphonsus Ligouri, who has so many credits to his name? In order to answer that question, we must travel to Marianella, a village near Naples, in the troubled days of the 18th Century.Saint Alphonsus LigouriAs God made a promise, He would not leave us orphans, the Church was under attack! Send a future Defender of the Faith! Unrest was spreading throughout Europe and the American colonies; and it would not leave Italy free from its tentacles. We were in the Age of Enlightenment, where the philosophy was an egocentric, prideful belief in the power of human reason, rather than the universal, Catholic belief in and dependence on God. Great enemies of the Roman Catholic Church, and all forms of religion, those egotists, fostering this theory, placed the focus on knowledge derived through the study of nature, rather than of the One W