Clonard Monastery and Church: City of Belfast
The Redemptorists are a congregation of priests and brothers living in a monastic community. They were founded in 1732 in the Kingdom of Naples at a village called Scala on the Amalfi Coast by a Neapolitan priest Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (1696-1787). Shocked by the ignorance and spiritual neglect of the local herdsmen and their families, despite their proximity to the great city of Naples, Alphonsus resolved to minister to them and other ‘most abandoned souls’. For fifty years…
