Stafford Poole

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The Reverend Stafford Poole, C.M., (born March 6, 1930) is a priest, full-time research historian, formerly a history professor and president of St. John's Seminary College in Camarillo, California. He was ordained in 1956, [1] and is known for his extensive and controversial writings about the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Poole's writings regarding Our Lady of Guadalupe include the books Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531-1797, The Guadalupan Controversies in Mexico, an English translation of Luis Laso de la Vega's Nahuatl account of the apparition, Huei tlamahuiçoltica, biographies of Juan de Ovando and Pedro Moya de Contreras, and multiple articles in academic journals.

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