 When Wilfrid arrived in Sussex, there was a small community of five or six Irish monks led by Dicul in Bosham, however it seems that they had made little headway in evangelising the local people.It would not have been unusual to have found Irish monks in Sussex as during this period it was common to follow the "Doctrine of Peregrinatio", a self-imposed exile to serve God.Also, the South of England generally was part of the overland route for the Irish travelling to the continent.