Collection: St. Alphonsus Liguori

ARTIST: Joan Cole

ARTWORK NARRATIVE:

Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the day. True, Our Lord hears our prayers anywhere, for He has made the promise, 'Ask, and you shall receive,' but He has revealed to His servants that those who visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament will obtain a more abundant measure of grace.
–St. Alphonsus Liguori

His feast day is August 1.

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