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England, so that he could go to America, presumably
a$ the leader of a group.
For Father William Tutneq pasror of St. Augustine's
in Manchester, Brother Ryken was able to do something.
Through Father Benoit, a priest from Bruges, he cai-
ried on successful negotiations. Father Benoit was the
assistant at St. Augustine's. Father Peacock, the pastor
at St. Marie's, Bury, had as anticipated notified the
Broth_ers that his parish was too poor to support a
school and that come April twenty-ninth, when their
contract expired, it would not be renewed. Wasting no
time, the community on the evening of April twdnty-
ninth packed up their few belongingi and entrained for
Manchester where in a tiny house on Bedford Street,
adjacent to St. Augustine's, they began a new foundation.
On the thirtieth they got things ready in the basemenr
of the Church. On May first they met their new pupils
and began the first day of school in what was narired
St. Augustine's Elementary School. Brorher Ignatius
was in charge; his assistanis \,yere Brother Alexi-us and
Brother Stanislaus, who had replaced Brother Alphonse
at Bury. Within a few months there were three hundred
boys in regular attendance.
At Bury, the- Brothers had enjoyed the luxury of a
lepgatg school-building; in Manchester they were down
in the basement of the Church. Here they had to carry
on in dank darkness in the midst of tombs from which
issued the stench of decay. The classes were large, the
school-day long- the equipment meagre. In the eiening
they classes for young men and mere boyi
_conducted
who had spent already a long day at work in the cotton
mills. Their program on Sundays was as taxing as that
on weekdays.
At the end of June, 1850, two months after the Broth-
ers had started their work at St. Augustine,s, the Founder