St. Alphonsus Liguori (SNV 02) (Round) Ornament

You have several options here: 1) Leave the ornament as is with its customizable text. Don't forget to actually customize the text though! 2) Change just the text leaving the cross ornament and parchment background. 3) Hide or delete the ornamental image and parchment background to reveal a hidden version of the same image of the featured saint that appears on the front of the ornament. 4) Hide or delete the image of the featured saint on the back to reveal a blank, solid-colored area ready to receive a picture, a greeting, a Biblical passage, or any other text of your choosing. To choose a new background color, use the provided color picker (the eyedropper tool). + St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (1696–1787) was an Italian nobleman, a lawyer turned priest, prolific writer, founder of the Redemptorists, Bishop, and Doctor of the Church. Here, he is portrayed wearing his Bishop’s regalia—white miter and cope, light violet gloves, blue-violet robe, and gold pectoral cross. He carries his crosier or pastoral staff in his left hand and raises his right hand in blessing. While his torso is shown frontally, his head is turned slightly to the right, the better to show his chin tucked against his chest. In May 1768, St. Alphonsus had been struck with a terrible attack of rheumatic fever that lasted over a year and left him permanently crippled until his death some twenty years later. He spent much of those last twenty years confined to a wheelchair. For these reasons, he is patron saint of rheumatoid arthritics and the aged ill. + Feast: August 1 + Image Credit (SNV 02): Antique image of St. Alphonsus Liguori from a late 19th-century chromoxylographic devotional print originally published by St. Norbertus Verlag, Vienna, Austria, from the designer’s private collection of religious ephemera. + Note Well: This image will work on any of the other products featuring SNV Saints. See, for example, our St. Sebastian COLLECTION (SNV 24).