Fr. John Anthony Sajdak, S.M.
A native of Yonkers, New York, Fr. Sajdak grew up attending St. Casimir’s church and grammar school, where each grade had both an English and a Polish section. He experienced the customs of the “old country” at home and in church and, like most Polish kids, learned to play the accordion and entertained his family with polkas.
After spending a year at Iona College, he entered the Marist Seminary in Framingham, Massachusetts, and also studied in Rome. Upon graduation, Fr. Sajdak was sent to Detroit, where he quickly discovered his passion: teaching. For almost 40 years he taught at the high school and college levels in the area and “never in a million years thought” he’d become Pastor of Church of Saint Louis, King of France.
A voracious reader, Fr. Sajdak is seldom seen without a book or magazine – these days on his iPad. He also enjoys TV dramas and comedies, opera, live theater, and counted cross stich.