Venerable Alfred Pampalon is the Patron of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts.

Venerable Alfred is a link in the chain of New World Redemptorist holiness; he was born near Quebec, Canada, one month after the death of Blessed Francis Seelos.

Accepted by the Redemptorists, he made his novitiate and priestly studies in Belgium and was ordained in 1892. He contracted tuberculosis and returned to Canada in 1895. Declining rapidly, he died in 1896 at age 29, at Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré.

His priestly life was short, but he prayed much, suffered patiently and trusted in God's love. Dying, he suddenly sang Mary's Magnificat. His cause for canonization is progressing in Rome; he is a model for all those who take God seriously wherever they find themselves in life.