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Excerpt from At the Scent of Water: Words Spoken by the Right Reverend Abbot Gasquet O. S. B. At the First Centenary of Saint Aloysius's Church Somerstown on Sunday, October 4, 1908
The mind is carried back to the remarkable in¿ux of French emigrant priests, who were forced to leave their own country on account of the Revolution, and who in return for the hospitality given them in England devoted their lives to the service of religion and edu cation in this country. The Church of St Aloysius, which, for those days, both in style of architecture and in size, represented the summit of Catholic ambition, still stands as a monument to their zeal and devotion. In the neighbourhood of three great lines of railways, and in one of the poorest localities, as a link with the past, this Church, curious and quaint as it is, remains one of the most interesting Churches in London.
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