Venerable Fr Peyton (Part 3)

by Canon Michael FitzgeraldFr. Peyton and his brother Tom graduated from high school in 1932 and immediately entered Holy Cross novitiate which was near Notre Dame University in Indiana.  Fr. Peyton was 24 years of age. For the next six years Fr Patrick gave his all...

Venerable Fr Patrick Peyton – Part II

By Canon Michael Fitzgerald The teenage years for Fr Patrick Peyton were as he puts it himself “restless and defiant, distressing my father because of my stubbornness, locked in a prison ofdoubt and frustration, conscious only that the walls were higher thanI...