August (5th or 7th, unclear), 1958: "you can't, but I can!"

The date is not certain but, either the 5th or the 7th, St. Josemaria finds himself walking around in London and notices there are so many people coming and going. People "walking in silence, without looking at each other, isolated from each other" and in his prayer says to God "this has gotten out of our hands... London is too... London!... I can't Lord, I can't!" then he experiences an inner locution, telling him "you can't, but I can!". Don Alvaro said in a getogether in London in 1980 how after that, it was at once the decision to start in London, and to obtain a place that would be like a duplicate of the headquarters in Rome. So they came to buy Wickenden manor , now operating as a conference centre).

Wickenden Manor