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 is known for his extensive and controversial writings about the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Poole was born in Oxnard, California, the son of Beatrice Hessie Smith and Joseph Outhwaite Poole, Sr. In 1947 he joined the Congregation of the Mission of Saint Vincent de Paul. He was ordained in 1956, [1] and afterwards taught in seminaries in the Midwest and California. After his retirement from active teaching in 1990, he undertook the study of Classical Nahuatl, and has published several works in that field.
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, a translation and critical edition of two Nahuatl plays about Guadalupe, biographies of Juan de Ovando and Pedro Moya de Contreras, and multiple articles in academic journals.
