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Also Known As Saint Alphonsus Maria de’Liguori • Saint Alfonso Maria de’ Liguori • Saint Alfonso Liguori
Born September 27, 1696 • Kingdom of Naples
Died August 1, 1787 (aged 90) • Italy
Founder Redemptorists
Subjects Of Study moral theology
Newman, John Henry
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
St. Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure
Italian theologian
John Dominic Crossan
Irish-born American theologian
St. Edmund
St. Edmund of Abingdon
archbishop of Canterbury
Ronald Knox, pen and ink drawing by P. Evans, c. 1926; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Ronald Knox
British theologian
Antoninus, Saint
Saint Antoninus
archbishop of Florence
St. Gregory the Great
pope
Joachim Of Fiore
Italian theologian
Gregory IX consecrating the chapel of St. Gregory, detail of a fresco, 13th century; in the lower church of Sacro Speco, Subiaco, Italy
Gregory IX
pope
Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficino
Italian philosopher and theologian
Vincenzo Gioberti
Italian philosopher and statesman
Peter Lombard
French bishop
Rosmini-Serbati, detail of a portrait by F. Hayez; in the Brera, Milan, Italy
Antonio Rosmini-Serbati
Italian philosopher
Gasparo Contarini
Venetian scholar, theologian, diplomat, and Roman Catholic cardinal
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
German religious leader
Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
St. Augustine
Christian bishop and theologian
John Calvin
John Calvin
French theologian
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
French abbot
Tyconius
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Tertullian
Christian theologian