St. Clement Mary Hofbauer established Redemptorist monasteries throughout northern Europe beginning in the 1780s and founded congregation houses in Switzerland and southern Germany. Because he played an important role in the order’s expansion outside of Italy, Hofbauer is sometimes called the “second founder” of the Redemptorists. (The order was formed by St. Alphonsus Liguori in 1732, but Hofbauer modified its missionary principles to fit new political and cultural situations in central and northern Europe.)
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