In July 1892 the Catholics of Stroud Green, Crouch Hill and Finsbury Park about 200 of them were stated to be sadly in need of a church. A group of lay people petitioned the Archbishop of Westminster to give them their own parish, church and priest. On August 31st, 1893 a meeting was held at Hornsey Rise to consider the feasibility of starting a mission. Stroud Green was at that time largely a rural suburb with cornfields on the slopes of the hills. The mission was made over to the Canons Regular of the Lateran, who wanted to make a foundation in London. A few years previously they had made a foundation in Cornwall in 1881, returning to these islands after having been swept away by the Dissolution of the Monasteries in this country, and barely surviving in continental Europe.

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