Family Rosary Crusade

Family Rosary Crusade
The Family That Prays Together Stays Together
Classification	Roman Catholic Marian Family Prayer Movement
Orientation	Marian prayers
Moderator	Rev. Fr. Wilfred Raymond, C.S.C.
Associations	Family Theater/Family Rosary International/Father Peyton Institute
Region	United States, Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Haiti, India, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Spain, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, Uruguay
Founder	Servant of God Patrick Peyton, C.S.C.
Origin	January 25, 1947 Albany, New York
Branched from	Holy Cross Family Ministries
Congregations	Congregation of Holy Cross
Official website	http://www.hcfm.org/
Since the year 2000, the international office for the mission and legacy of Father Peyton is now in based at 518 Washington Street, North Easton, MA 02356-1200, near where Father Peyton was laid to rest. An office at the original founding location is at 16 Cornell Avenue, Albany, NY 12203.

Family Rosary Crusade is a worldwide campaign that eventually became a Roman Catholic movement founded by Patrick Peyton, an Irish-American priest who is being considered for Sainthood by The Vatican. The endeavor came to be a personal mission to undertake the promotion of the praying of the Rosary by families as a means to unite them. The inspiration to start a campaign came from Peyton's patron, the Blessed Virgin Mary, whom he credits as the one who interceded before God and her son Jesus Christ for his recovery from tuberculosis in 1941.

The campaign's objective is to promote the praying of the Rosary by families. Peyton believed that together as a family, in unison praying the Rosary, the family is united before Christ and drawn closer to God.

The modern day Mission adopted for the Family Rosary Crusade under the stewardship of the Holy Cross Family Ministries:

Patrick Peyton was born to an Irish Catholic family, at a time of hardships in the early years of the 20th century. His family were staunchly Catholic farmers, who prayed the Rosary together as a regular practice.

As a child, Peyton had inclinations to pursue a vocation as a priest. Due to poverty and the need to help his family earn a living, that pursuit did not bear fruit until he was already in his twenties as an immigrant in the United States.

As a seminarian he discovered his mission for God at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, Peyton was passionate over the spiritual welfare of families, especially those living in squalor who were affected by the Great Depression.

Discovering that he had tuberculosis, Peyton immersed himself in meditation while praying the Rosary. A few months later, doctors discovered that the tuberculosis in his body had disappeared, driving Peyton to a more intense devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Upon receiving his first assignment as a newly ordained priest in 1941, Father Peyton was assigned as a chaplain for a school managed by the Congregation of the Holy Cross in Albany, New York.

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