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REDEMPTORISTS
Members of the congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded by St. Alphonso Maria de' Liguori at Scala, Italy, in 1732. They form a clerical religious congregation engaged in the preaching and writing apostolate among the faithful, in giving parish missions and spiritual exercises and in missionary work among non-Christians.
