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priests to insert in the newspapers the dates for his stay
in their individual districrs.
Hardly had Ryken left Bruges when an intermediary,
acting for the Redemptorist Fathers, arrived at "Het
Walletje" to inquire whether he would consider staffing
a school in Clapham, London. The intermediary, John
Philp, had been very active in behalf o{ rhe Redemp-
torists and had been the one to suggest to them that they
should settle in the metropolis. Having given up the
missions at Falmouth and Blackmore Park in Worcester-
shire, they had on July 31, 1848, taken possession of a
house adjacent to Clapham Common in London. Fol-
lowing them at their request were the pioneering Sisters
of Notre Dame from Namur, Belgium, who had come
over to England in 1845 to reach under their auspices.
For the Sisters it was John Philp, who rented a house
in the neighborhood of Clapham Common.
When the news of John Philp's visit caught up with
Brother Ryken in Germany a month later, November
lZth, he wrote the Redemptorists of his acceptance of
their invitation and promised to visit them in London
a-s soon as he got back to Bruges. He hoped, he told
them, that he would be able to send the required num-
ber of Brothers early in 1849.