Obituary Notice
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Fr. PETER PAUL Boyle (1896-1966) OBITUARY NOTICE OF THE LiTE FATHER PETER PAUL C.P. HOLY CROSS " ARDOYNE. st 10 otclock on the night of January 18th 1666, the feast of St. Paul the Hermit, Father Peter Paul of the Seven VolLours, known in the world as Michacl Boyle, passed quietly to his eternal reward. By his bedside was the Rector ‘of Holy Cross, frdoyne, and Fr. Philip, a member of the Ardoyne Community. . For sbout eight months previously Fr. Peter Paul had not been well. After an operation in June, 1965 he never really got back to his normal state of health. During the Inst three or. four months he found it extremely difficult to retein any nourishment sand very quickly he lost much weight. All this made him extremely week. When he entered St. John's private Nursing Home, Crumlin Road, Belfast on December 28th 1965 he did so simply for a check up. He certainly did not. feel that he would never return to frdoyne. Only on the morning of his death wes the news broken gently to him that he was, end had been for some time suffering from cencer. Having received nll the last sscraments he slipped into unconsciousness about 2 p.em. 4s Fr. Rector nnd Fr. Philip ssid the preyers for the dying, he passed painicssly into eternity. Fr. Peter Prul wes born at Gilford, Co. Down on Decembcr 28th 1896. After completing his carly education locally he had been for some short time a School Monitor befaec going to the old Alumninto at Sandymount, Co. Dublin. In 1917 he entered the Novitiate st St. Gobricl's Retront, Enniskillon sand wes there professed on the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady in 1918. 411 his student days were spent »t Mount frgus, Dublin, and, having completed his studies he was raised to the Phicsthood st Clonliffe College, Dublin on December 22nd 1923. Becsuse he hed been such an exemplary student end becruse he secmed to be possessed of the true Passionist spirit, his Superiors, very shortly sfter ordinotion appointed him to the position of Directors of Studdénts st Ilkley.’ In 1929 he was recelled to Dublin to bocome Vicar of St. Paults Rotrest, Mount Argus, #fter three yeers in Dublin he wos at the Provincial Chapter sent ss Vicor to Holy Cross Retreat, Ardoyne, Belfast. sfter a three yorr period hore he was sont to Glssgow where ho worked on the parish for the next nino yo rrs. From there after the next Provincisl Chapter, he went to Holy Cross, ‘4rdoyne as Rector. To this podtion he was ro-oppointcd in 1944. In 1947 he became .First Provincinl Consultor and remained such till his ro-sppointnont as Rector of Ardoyno in 1956. In 1959 ho was appointed as Rector of St. Joscph's Retroent Cloonsnrhon, Collooney, Co. Sligo. When his term of three yeers wes up there he choose Holy Cross, Ardoyns %s the s the house in which he wished to live as n romber of the Cormnunity.
Fr, Poter Paul's Obituary Notice. Fr. Beter Paul was well known snd highly respected, especially in the Diocese of Down and Connor, whore he spent much of his priestly life. His populsrity wes very evidsnt in tho number of priests who attended the Requiem Mass at Ardoyne and the funeral to the cemetary within the grounds of the Monastory. Fr. Poter Paul was not ean outstanding preecher; neither was he a great philosopher or theologian. In many weys his life was simple, in the correct sense of that word. He wos a men who lived in God's presence and a man to whom prayer wag as important as brerthing. Ho was upright and honest in 911 his dealings whether within the Cormunity or outside the Monestery. He never suspected duplicity or Insck of honesty in others because he sxpected and believed that all wore ss himself in this. matter. He used no subtlty or flattery to got a Religious to perform an rllotted tesk. He ssked frankly and-bluntly that it be done. If his correction sometimes seemed hard it wags only because he mennt exactly what he said. There the matter ended. He followsd with devotion and true sincerity whet he believed to be the Passionist way of life. It was this very quality that urged his Superiors in his early life to appoint him Director of Students. Not all would agree with his concept of the word "observonce". To him it meant choir observance and in this his view wes undoubtedly mistaken. Yet credit must bo given to any man who sincerely follows what he bolisves to be right. We commond his soul into the hands of his maker. Holy Cross, &rdoyne, Belfast, Febryary, 1966. a f Me eg v2 Lt te eet i
Source: Obituary Notices, Provincial Archive, St Joseph's Province. Passionist Congregation.