OCTOBER 30 SAINT ALPHONSUS RODRIGUEZ
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(also known as Alonso)
Born in Segovia, Spain, July 25, 1533; died at Palma de Majorca in 1617; beatified 1825; canonized 1888; feast formerly on October 31.
“The difference between adversity suffered for God and prosperity is greater than that between gold and a lump of lead.” – Saint Alphonsus.
Brother Alphonsus proves Mother Teresa’s axiom that small things done with great love is the call of the Christian. Every day Alphonsus Rodriguez prayed to more than 20 confessors, martyrs, and Church Fathers. He had a great veneration for Saint Ursula, and though modern scholarship has done much to revise and alter the story of her martyrdom, the fact remains that a liturgy might be clumsy and inaccurate and yet represent a far more fertile and living expression of religious life than one which has been cleaned and scoured to the point of rendering it sterile.
Surely the candor and devotion of Saint Alphonsus is of greater value than the scientific …More