His home, the Hotel Lamm, overlooked the Market Square and was a gathering place for professors, students, and theologians from the nearby university.

He continued his studies in Verona where contact with Catholic priests led to his conversion in 1792 to Roman Catholicism.

[1] In 1796 Steeb was ordained to the priesthood and served in the Lazaretto where he assisted wounded and sick soldiers from the Napoleonic wars.

Peter Leopardi and devoted himself to the poor received in the city shelter and to the inmates of the Civil Hospital.

Pope Paul VI recognized his life of heroic virtue and named him to be Venerable on 19 November 1970, and later beatified him on 6 July 1975.