Oswald Staniforth
Reverend Oswald Staniforth was a British Franciscan friar notable for his writings on various religious subjects.
Biography
George was born in the town of Erith, Kent, to Charles Staniforth, an accountant who was born in Smyrna, Turkey as a British Subject, and Agnes Harrietta Woodbridge, born in France. By age fourteen he was attending St Augustine's College, Canterbury. He worked as a missionary during the Boer War, serving with the British Army in South Africa. He lived in various places over his life including Kent, Yorkshire, Wales and had worked as a missionary in California and Montreal.Writings
The Saint of the Eucharist, Saint Paschal Baylon, Patron of Eucharistic Associations,,, Sketch of St. Louis King of FranceLife of St. Francis- ''The Third Order of Saint Francis: Being three lectures delivered at the Franciscan summer school, Oxford, August 1928''