Fr. Rookey Priesthood (1941-1995)
Fr. Rookey’s Ordination Picture
After Father’s First Public Mass 1941
Young Fr. Peter 1940s
Posing After First Public Mass 1941
Newly Ordained Priest
Early photo of Father in his first Servite habit
Father in Benburb, Northern Ireland in the late 1940s with the first Servite community that had been recently established there
Fr. Rookey with his first cousin, Fr. Christopher O’Toole in Ireland, circa 1950. Fr. Chris was the General of the Holy Cross Order in the United States and Canada from 1950 to 1962.
Father in Benburb, Ireland Circa 1950
Blessing Crowd-Ireland 1950
Blesses the Irish in 1950
Serving the Irish Faithful 1950
Professional photo taken when Father was stationed in Rome in 1953 as Assistant to the General of the Servite Order
Sitting portrait of Fr. Peter in 1953
Another photo of Father in his Servite habit in 1953 Rome
Westfalen, Germany in 1954
Father with glasses, 1950s
Passport from 1962
Father in Belgium in the 1960s
Nice photo of Fr. Peter posing for the camera
Wiesbaden, Germany in the mid-1960s. Father served as a parish priest for several years in Dusseldorf, Germany
Wearing a beret in 1966 Germany with Fr. Scholmueller
Outdoor Mass in Portland, Oregon’s Servite Grotto center on May 8, 1966. Fr. Peter served at a Portland parish in the 1940s
Superior, Wisconsin at 25th anniversary of ordination dinner with fellow priests. Photo signed by his good friend, comedian Bob Hope
Another photo from the anniversary dinner, signed by Bob Hope’s wife, Dolores. Father’s cousin, Fr. Chris O’Toole is seated second from right
Rare photo of Father without his Roman collar around his neck. Posing in May of 1966 with his 14 year old nephew, Tim Rookey
Joyfully playing the piano, one of Father’s favorite recreational activities
On donkey in Patmos, Greece, in 1973, riding up to the monastery cave where St. John the Apostle wrote the Apocolypse
On the cover of the September, 1975 Extension magazine edition. Father served for over 17 years as a missions priest in the Missouri Ozarks region from 1967 to 1984
Pictured in his Irish derby hat. He was very proud of his Irish heritage
Mass at one of his mission churches in Missouri
1979 Holy Land travel ad with Fr. Peter as the pilgrimage priest. He served as the spiritual guide for many religious pilgrimages over the years
Kissing the famous Blarney Stone in 1979 Ireland.
Denver Colorado Cathedral being invested as a Knight of the Holy Sepulcher on May 6, 1984
With Rev. Sabba, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem in October, 1988
Circa 1990 photo of Father
Early 1990s Miracle Prayer card photo of Fr. Peter
Father in Medjugorje in May 1991
Healing service in the tent behind St. James church in Medjugorje in the early 1990s
After 50th anniversary of ordination Mass at Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica in Chicago, May, 1991, with friends Ted and Maureen. Also, nephew Tim on right
Photo of Fr. Peter with his two other surviving 1941 ordination classmates after their 50th anniversary of ordination Mass in May, 1991 at Our Lady of Sorrows
Father, in 1991, posing in front of the former Mater Dolorosa seminary chapel in Hillside, Illinois where he studied for the priesthood and celebrated his very first Mass as a priest in May, 1941
With young child at St. Michael’s church in Jackson, Texas on November 3, 1992
January, 1993 healing Mass at Our Lady of Sorrows
1990s sitting portrait of Fr. Peter drawn by famous artist, Andre Durand, while Father was in Rome. Mr. Durand also painted sitting portraits of St. Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama, among others
Mass consecration at side chapel, St. James church in Medjugorje in October, 1993
Celebrating a healing Mass at St. Lucy’s Catholic church in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 22, 1993
Praying at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem
Father on the cover of a Polish language magazine in the 1990s