It is almost a year to the day since I last visited the grave marker of Fr. Patrick Peyton in North Easton, Mass.
The last time I had been there, it was all but impossible to find the marker which was covered under the winter snow. Had it not been for the tiny flags marking the grave markers of the bothers and priests who had served their country in the Korean and Second World Wars, I never would have found the marker on Christmas Eve morning, 2008.
On July 21, last year, there was no one in the walled cemetery where Fr. Peyton is buried and now the tiny flags honouring the priests that had served their country were clearly visible, stirred by the gentle breeze.