This grainy, up-res’d illustration, pulled from a university webpage bio, is one of only two images of any kind I could find online of St. George William Joseph Stock (if it even is him). (If you know of one, please post a link in the Comments below.)It is rare to encounter a published author from the relatively recent past for which almost no biographical information can be found online. I have found such a person, in the form of a philosophy scholar by the curious and intriguing name of “St. George William Joseph Stock.”
Right off the bat, so many questions. Who gets named “Saint,” or did he give himself that moniker? When was he born, and when did he die? Where did he live? Trying to suss out the life of this enigmatic “Saint George” is maddening. Maddeningly fun.