Steele, Richard, a Nonconformist preacher, grad- uated nt St. . I.. hn's College, Crimbridge. He became vicar of llainnere. North Wales, and was ejected fi.r nonconformity in 1662. He died in 1692. His work*, which are commended by Philip Henry, are, Aii/i'liitf iii/ainti l>i»lrtwliont (bind. 16(i7, 8vo; 3il ed. 1<'.73; IHlJl. 12mo):— />wr«H;vi(' of Old Ar/i- : — /)isrimrse vjxm rnni/lilniimnnit ( 1670, Hvo ) :—( 'tirislian Ihisltavd- mant Cilliutj ( 167(1 ) :— Trailisnxins ( 'allinij ( 16«4, Kvo ) : — Strini.n*. .See Darling, Cyrlop. liibliiiij. 8. v.; Alli- bone, l>i< t. <;/ /;, |7. itnd A met; A uthors, s. v,
Steele, Robert A„ a minister of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, was born about 1804. He was converted in early life, and practiced medicine for several years. In 1833 he was admitted on trial in the Georgia Conference, and appointed as junior preacher to Alcovia Circuit. For eleven years he continued his itinerant career, serving the Church as a preacher, and for sev- eral years as )>residing elder. He died in February, 1844. He was a man of great worth to the Church, of strong faith and good preaching talents, and perhaps few men ever possessed more true missionary zeal than he did. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church, South, iii, 592.
Steen, Coknei.is van pen (in Lat. Cornelius a l.npide), a Belgian theologian, was born about 1566, at Bockholt, of peasant parentage. He took his degrees at Cologne, entered the Society of Jesus in 1592, an<l was professor of Hebrew and Scripture in the College of Louvain for more than twenty years. About 1612 he was sent to Pome, and there tilled a similar position un- til his death, March 12, 1637. His various Commentarii on the Bible, numbering eighteen, were published at in- tervals from 1614 to 1645, and collectively at Antwerp (1681, 10 vols. fol.\ and again at Venice (1708, 16 vols, fol.). They contain much that is valuable, with a large amount of useless matter.
Steeple (stepuN), the tower of a church, etc., in- cluding any superstructure, such as a spire or lantern, standing upon it. In some districts small churches have the steeples not unfreqneiitly formed of massive wooden framing, standing on the floor, and carried up some lit- tle distance above the roof; these are usually at the west end, parted off from the nave by a wooden parti- tion, as at Ipsden and Tetsworth, Oxfordshire. — Parker, Gloss, of Architect, s. v. See BiiLFRY; Tower.
Stefani, Tomm.\so de', an Italian painter, was born at Naples about 1230. He j)ainted the chapel of the INIinutoli in the Diiomo, mentioned by Boccaccio, with a series of frescos representing the passion iif our Saviour. In the Society of St. Angelo at Nilo are the paintings of <S/. Michael and St. Andrew that are attributed to liim. He died probably about 1310. He may be regarded as the earliest of the Neapolitan school. See Hoefer, Xouv. Bio//. Generate, s, v.
Ste£fani, Ar;osTiNo, an Italian composer, was born at Castel-franco, government of Venice, about 1655, In his youth he was entered as a chorister at St. Mark's, Venice, where a (Jerman nobleman, pleased with him, obtained his discharge, took him into Bavaria, gave him a liberal education, and when he arrived at the pro]ier age. got him ordained. He then took the title of Abate, by which he is now commonly known. His ecclesiasti- cal compositions soon became numerous, and attracted the not ice of Ernest, duke of Bruns\\ ick, who invited him to Hanover, and made him director of his chamber mu- sic. Steftani was also a statesman, and had a consider- able share in concerting with the courts of Vienna and Batisbon the scheme for erecting the duchy of Bruns- wick-Lilneburg into an electorate, for which service the elector assigneil him a hands<ime (lension, and pope In- nocent XI gave him the bishopric of Spiga. He died at F'rankfort in 1730. See Knijlish Cyclop, s. v.
Stegall, Benjamin C, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was a native of Jas]ier Coun- ty. Ga. He joined the Mississippi Conference about 1K37, located after six or seven years' travel, and was readmitteil into the Louisiana Conference in 1855. He died .lime 10, 1860. See Minutes of Annual Confer- ences of the M. K. Church, South, 1860, p. 23.5.
Steger, Benedict Steimian, a Lutheran minister, was born at Nuremberg, April 9, IK07. He studied at Erlaiigen and Berlin. His first ministerial duties he performed in liis native place. In 1835 he was ap- pointed second preacher at Hof, ami in 1843 he was call- ed to his native place as third preacher of St. yEgidius's, as which he labored for thirty-three j'ears. He died
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Feb. 9, 1876. Besides sermons and a catechetical man- ual, he published Die pru/estanlLic/ieii J/is.iioiien nnd deren ffesei/iieles Wirkeii ( Hut', lH44-.')((, 3 pts. ), giviii}^ a history of the I'rotestant Jlissions till llie lirsr halt" of this century. See Zuchokl, Bibl. Tlu'olnij, ii, r2G0 : De- litzsch, Saat auf [loffnuiuj (,1870), xiii, 130 sq. (B. T.)
Stegmail, Josl'a, a Lutheran divine, was boru in 1588 at Suizfeld, in Franconia. For ten years he at- tended the lectures at the Leipsic University, and on account of his great learning he was honored in 1G17 with the degree of D.U. b_v the Wittenberg faculty. In 1621 he went to Kinteln as professor of the newly founded university there; but on account of the war he had to relinquish his position until I6"25, when he return- ed and discharged his pastoral as well as academical duties until 1630. About this time the Benedictine monks returned to Rinteln, and Stegman's position be- came very unpleasant. He was persecuted in every way, and the excitement which lie had to undergo caused his death, Aug. 3, 1632. He is the author of the famous German hymn, .1 ch, bleib' mil dtiner Gnade (Eng- lish transl. in Lyni Germ, ii, 120, " Abide among us with thy grace. Lord Jesus, evermore"). Besides this and other hymns, he also wrote Pkotinninmus, h. e. Suc- ciiicta Refutatio Errorum I'hotianorum, 56 Disputution- ibus Breviter Comprehensa (Rinteln, 1623; Frankfort, 1643). See Theolog. Unirersul-Lexikon, s. v. ; Koch, Gesch. des deutschen Kirchenliedes, iii, 128 sq. ; viii, 148 ; Winer, Handb, der theoloij. Literutur, i, 354; ii, 788. (B. P.)