 It was while at St. Edmund's that he decided to become a priest.He joined the Order of Friars Preachers, more commonly known as the Dominicans, in Woodchester but left in 1880.From 1880 to 1881 he attended St. Thomas' Seminary in Hammersmith to study philosophy, and then went to study in France at Saint-Sulpice Seminary in Paris and the University of Leuven.