 The Irish Augustinian college of St. Patrick at Rome, built in 1884 by Patrick Glynn, was then the training college for the Augustinian missions.James Alipius Goold had been the first Augustinian to arrive in the Australian colonies in 1838.He had been convinced to go to Australia by William Bernard Ullathorne (then the Benedictine Vicar-General of New Holland) after a chance meeting on the steps of the Roman Augustinian church at the monastery of Santa Maria del Popolo.