Joseph F. Stedman

Joseph F. Stedman

The Right Reverend Monsignor Joseph F. Stedman (born March 11, 1898; died March 23, 1946) was a well-known American priest and author of books about Roman Catholicism.

After attending St. Joseph's School and St. Francis College in Brooklyn, he entered Fordham College, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree. On completing his course at St. John's Seminary, Brooklyn, he was ordained in May 1921. From 1925, Father Stedman was chaplain of the Monastery of the Precious Blood, Brooklyn. He was also Director of the Confraternity of the Precious Blood, which was erected in 1925 at the Monastery Chapel of the Cloistered Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood.

His writings include "My Sunday Missal", with illustrations by Ade Bethune, as well as "My Military Missal", "My Daily Readings from the Four Gospels", the "Triple" Novena Manual", and "My Lenten Missal". At the time of his death, it was noted that more than 13,000,000 copies of his books had been sold. He died at the age of forty-eight, at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. He was survived by a brother who was also a priest, the Reverend Edwin J. Stedman.

References

* "Msgr Stedman Dies; Wrote on Religion," "The New York Times", March 24, 1946.


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