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Volume VII

In Defense of the Faith

by St. Alphonsus Liguori (1696–1787)

His defense of the Council of Trent, taken session by session against the Reformers. Last in English in 1846, and translated here afresh from the Italian.

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Front matter

Contents· 16 sessions and treatises, the first free to read

  1. Session IV: On Scripture and Tradition
  2. Session V: On Original Sin
  3. Session VI: On Justification
  4. An Added Treatise: On the Systems of Grace
  5. Session VII: On the Sacraments in General
  6. Session XIII: On the Sacrament of the Eucharist
  7. Session XIV: On the Sacrament of Penance
  8. On the Sacrament of Extreme Unction
  9. Session XXI: On Communion under Both Kinds, and the Communion of Infants
  10. Session XXII: On the Sacrifice of the Mass
  11. Session XXIII: On the Sacrament of Holy Orders
  12. Session XXIV: On the Sacrament of Matrimony
  13. Session XXV: The Decree on Purgatory
  14. On the Invocation, Veneration, and Relics of the Saints, and on Sacred Images
  15. On Indulgences
  16. A Sixteenth and Last Added Treatise