Page 114 - March On! God will Provide by Brother Aubert

INVITATION TO ENGLAND 93
9f yhgT several are people of note, seem in general satis-
fied with our merhod."
- Any visitor to BrLges who boarded in the neighbor_
hood of the Cathedral would have been captivated"when
he watched the small boys from St. Saviour primary
School line up after school was d.ismissed. and. then *"r.h
ofi, two by two, with a Brother bringing up the rear.
When boy arrived at his home, he" diopied out of
1
line and scurried indoors.
.Y""jy"tly- 1or{ got to a Father peacock, the pasror
of St. Marie's Parish
i1 B.ury, Lancashire. Broth'er Ig-
natius in his "Notes" givei the developing detaili
_Thery was a priest living in Bruges ty lfrJ name of
Rev. Macdonald who communicated wittr Rev. peacock.
Two men, Messrs. Witham and Dunderdale, were sent
to call at our establishment and the result was that
three Brothers were destined to go to Bury."
Father Macdonald's siste-r, also a sojourner in Bruges,
took an active parr in handling the priliminary detaiis.
It was finally agreed that the Brothers would reDort
in Bury on or before l, lg4g, and that faiher
January
Peacock would advance their travel expenses. Without
the financial assistance of the English paitor the Brothers
would not have dared to board the train for Ostend.
They could not have paid for a ticket.
On Brother the vise closed. tighter and tighter.
^ \flen
On August 7 , 1847, he wrore to Brothei Stanislaus Lucas
and Brother Paul Van Gerwen, who were in resid.ence
at the St. Trond Normal School, directing them to return
home to Bruges at the close of the term. He explained
that they could help wirh the annual Distribu-tion of
Priz€s, the demonstration usually staged at the Town
Hall to mark the close of another schiol year. He also
told them that they were to be on hand for the annual