John Delavau Bryant

John Delavau Bryant

John Delavau Bryant (born 1811, died 1877) - Catholic American poet. He was born in a Protestant family. His father was an Episcopal pastor. He studied at the Episcopalian Academy. He continued his education at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1839 he received a baccalaureate and in 1842 he received a magisterium. Then he joined the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York. After a year, he left the university and went on a trip around Europe. On his return he changed his religion to Roman Catholic (1842). Then he began his medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He obtained his diploma in 1848. In 1855 he worked as a doctor during the fever epidemic in Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia. In 1857 he married Mary Harriet Riston. For two years he was the publisher of the Catholic Herald. His most important work is the epic Redemption, inspired by a visit to Jerusalem. In 1852, he published a controversial novel by Pauline Seward, which was very popular among Catholics and has ten editions. In 1855, he published The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God presenting the newly established dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Bibliography

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