In 1950 Father Patrick Boyle bought a railroad ticket and climbed on board a westbound train. A few days later, he was on the front porch of St. Joseph Catholic Church. There he met the man with whom he would spend his final days.
Boyle was born in April 1928 to Irish immigrant parents in Missouri. While in the sixth grade, he decided to become a Catholic priest. For high school, he enrolled in an area seminary.
Rudolph Daz took a different path to the same porch. He also was born in April 1928 but in Ogden, a proud descendant of Italian immigrant grandparents. During grade school, he too imagined becoming a priest but did not seriously pursue the vocation until several years later.in Menlo Park. While there, tragedy struck the Daz family when Rudolph’s father died of heart failure in 1948 at age 43.
For the next half-century, both men served their communities with devotion, kindness, grace and love., prayer and work. He cleaned barns, fed animals and harvested crops. He spent thousands of hours praying for the hundreds of people he met and blessed in the abbey bookstore, as well as for all the rest of us, too.
Father Patrick told anyone who would listen, “What’s the difference between a monkey and a monk? A monkey has a tail!” He’d also tell bookstore visitors, “The rest of the monks voted to have me out here to keep me from getting into trouble.”
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