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Hello, welcome to Catholic Saints. Today we're going to be talking about a saint that St. John Paul II called a Master of Wisdom, a Father in Faith, teacher of the Christian life, and a great friend

of the people. Today we're going to be talking about St. Alphonseus Legory. My name is Dr. Ben Acres.

I work here at the Augustine Institute, along with my colleague, Dr. Sean Innes, a great professor in the Augustin Institute Graduate School of Theology.

Thank you for joining me, Sean.

Oh, you bet. And it's great to be here.

So, Pope St. John Paul II, one of my favorite saints.

It's always, I always love finding a saint, talk about another saint. And the popes are great.

They're going to canonize because they have usually writings or, you know, nice audience on the saint.

But this is high praise from Pope St. John Paul II, a master of wisdom, father and faith,

teacher of the Christian life and a great friend of the people.

Yeah, absolutely well.

And in some ways you can see they're kind of kindred spirits

because Alphonsis was a moral theologian and St. John Paul II was likewise,

you know, an important voice in the church on moral theology. Cleaned up a few messes.

No, that's right, with his very tautous splendor, the great and cyclical on moral theology.

For our, you know, viewers, and you know, you can always download this on podcast, maybe you're listening on podcasts.

Can you give us some historical context to where San Alphonse's fits within the history of the church?

Well, yeah. You know, in broad terms, born 1696, died 91 years later, right?

So, at a ripe old age.

That is an old age for the 17th century.

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