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a fashionable frock coat and a cassock, the waist being
high and tight. The tails, which were full and fl.owing,
flopped around their heels. As they journeyed from
Liege to Amsterdam, and thence to London, people
stopped and looked at them in their stylish array, and
some laughed at them."
On Saturday, April 29, when the Brothers arrived at
their destination, one of the parishioners was waiting
for them in the Bury railway starion. This stolid Eng-
lishman had no difficulty in recognizing rhe expected
quartet but he masked his amazement. Delighted as
Father Peacock was to see the Brothers actually in Bury,
he could not hide his amusement at the sight of these
strangely-clad men. Accustomed as the Brothers were
to going about in Belgium in their habits and clerical
cloaks, they felt even more ridiculous than they lopked.
So they laughed with Father Peacock but for a difierent
reason.
Once the Brothers found themselves in the house
that,Father Peacock had provided for them, they were
delighted. It was comfortably furnished and well srocked
with supplies. They rvere still exploring the premises
when one of the parishioners thrust into them over the
half door a loaf of freshly-baked bread. Ir was this and
similar acts of kindness that made Brother Ryken re-
mark: "The people considered themselves fortunate and
blessed to have us in their midst."
On the following day, the Brothers heard Mass at St.
Marie's, the parish church on Manchester Road. They
knew that they knelt among the valiant, among the
men and women of Lancashire whose forefathers had
died for the Faith.
St. Marie's was a monument to the pastor and his
parishioners. Beginning in 1825, a priest from Roch-
ctale had said Mass on one Sunday a month in a room