1696 – 1787
In art he is always depicted with his chin on his chest due to his arthritic condition.
He is the Patron of: Charity
He is Invoked against: Arthritis, the Pains of Old Age
His Feast Day is August 1
NOVENA TO SAINT ALPHONSUS LIGUORI
Glorious Saint Alphonsus, loving father of the poor and sick, all your life you devoted yourself with a charity really heroic to lightening their spiritual and bodily miseries. Full of confidence in your tender pity for the sick, since you yourself have patiently borne the cross of illness, I come to you for help in my present need.
(Mention your request).
Loving father of the suffering, Saint Alphonsus, whom I invoke as the Arthritis Saint, since you suffered from this disease in your lifetime, look with compassion upon me in my suffering. Beg god to give me good health. If it is not God’s will to cure me, then give me strength to bear my cross patiently and to offer my sufferings in union with my crucified Savior and his Mother of Sorrows, for the glory of God and the salvation of souls, in reparation for my sins and those of others, for the needs of this troubled world, and for the souls in purgatory.
(Recite one Our Father, one Hail Mary and one Glory Be).
Saint Alphonsus, patron of the sick, pray for me. Amen.
Say this novena nine times in a row for nine days in a row.
Excerpted from the book: “Novena: the Power of Prayer” by Barbara Calamari and Sandra DiPasqua.
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