The members of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists) are a religious order in the Roman Catholic Church.  Founded in Italy in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Liguori, Redemptorists are now in over 75 countries.  Their presence in North America goes back to 1832.  Since then, thousands of Redemptorists have served the most abandoned in the United States and abroad.  The American mission of the Redemptorists was divided into two provinces in 1875. The Baltimore Province encompassed cities up and down the Eastern seaboard and inland as far as Ohio. The St. Louis Province encompassed the Congregation’s houses in Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, New Orleans, and later in the western half of the United States. In later years, the St. Louis province evolved into the Denver Province, whi