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St. Alphonsus Liguori
He founded the Redemptorists to preach in mountain villages nobody else reached, gathered the poorest of Naples into evening prayer groups, and wrote the moral theology that told confessors to be gentle.
Feast August 1 · the Kingdom of Naples
St. Augustine of Hippo
He sold everything he owned and gave the money to the poor, made his own house a monastery, looked after the poor and orphans of Hippo, answered the questions of the whole known world by letter, and stayed in the city under siege rather than leave his people.
Feast August 28 · Tagaste and Hippo, North Africa