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Servant of God Father Patrick Peyton, C.S.C. (January 9, 1909 – June 3, 1992), also known as The Rosary Priest, was an Irish Roman Catholic priest and promoter of the Rosary. Peyton is the founder of the post-World War II prayer movement called, "Family Rosary Crusade". This campaign was harnessed by the CIA between 1958 and 1965 and was funded in order to combat leftist influence in Latin America, during the Cold War. Father Peyton staged massive Rosary rallies in key cities of the world and extensively utilized mass communication, helped by world-recognized celebrities of Hollywood at that time, promoting his ministry of binding families through prayer under the Family Rosary. Peyton was a popular and charismatic figure in Latin America and the Philippines, where he promoted the Rosary and was known for his strong Irish accent. Peyton once said that "The family that prays together stays together" and "A world at prayer is a world at peace". ==Early life== Father Peyton was born as Patrick Joseph Peyton in County Mayo, Ireland to John Peyton of Carracastle and to the former Mary Gillard of Rathreedane, Townland of Bonniconlon, County Mayo. Father Peyton was the sixth in a family of four girls and five boys living in a small cottage at a 14 acre (5.66 hectares) stony farmland near the foot of the Ox Mountains. The Peyton family was a deeply religious Irish Catholic subsistence-farming family. Later on, some members of the family migrated to the United States. Peyton was one of the children having the privilege of going to school. Patrick was sent to his mother's relatives in Bonniconlon to study at a school run by Tadhg O’Leary in Bofield. As a young man, Patrick was rebellious and had moments of defying authority, resulting in dropping out of school. Despite the youthful rebellion, he remained close to his family, respectful of his parents, and was deeply religious. By his teen years, he was contemplating a vocation to become a priest. Religious recruiters such as the Capuchins and the Redemptorist fathers visited Carracastle in search of young men wanting to pursue the priesthood. His curiosity about pursuing a vocation was set aside for a couple of years. Instead he would concentrate in helping his family earn a living when their father became too ill and to work the farm. Some of his elder sisters were already in America and were sending remittances to help the family left behind. In 1927, his sisters in America sent word that Patrick and his older brother Thomas could sail to the United States and join them in Scranton, Pennsylvania. On May 13, 1928, the Peyton brothers set sail. The brothers arrived in New York after a 10-day trip, traveling by steerage. A young Patrick who had never left his country was awed by the glamour of the well-off Irish people who were in the leisure cabins above deck. The two took the train from New York to Pennsylvania and lived at the home of their already married sister Beatrice, who was working as a housekeeper for the state Attorney General of that time. Patrick's sister Nellie already spoke to Monsignor Paul Kelly of the St. Stanislaus Cathedral and told of Patrick's inclination to pursue a priestly vocation. Monsignor Kelly told Nellie to bring her younger brother Patrick to the cathedral as soon as he arrived. By June 1928, with hard luck in finding a job, Patrick finally met Monsignor Kelly and was offered a job of becoming the cathedral's sexton. In the words of Patrick at that time, ''a sexton was just another name for a janitor.'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patrick Peyton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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