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Patrick Peyton
Irish Roman Catholic priest and promoter of the Rosary (1909-1992)
The Vatican record
- 18 December 2017 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2017)
Who they were
Patrick Joseph Peyton, CSC (January 8, 1909 – June 3, 1992), also known as "the rosary priest", was an Irish-born priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross who founded the Family Rosary Crusade. He popularized the phrases "The family that prays together stays together" and "A world at prayer is a world at peace."
Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
The Church has declared this person’s heroic virtue, which is what the title Venerable means. One approved miracle is needed before beatification.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information available on this saint.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Wikidata Q743262 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Patrick Peyton (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The dates and the step marked “Vatican record” come from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints; the rest comes from Wikidata and is not yet checked.