 Cohen's fame as a preacher led to an invitation by Cardinal Wiseman to come to England to re-establish the Carmelite Order, after its suppression in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century, for which he received a special blessing from Pope Pius IX.He arrived in London in 1862, having £7 (c. ₤550 in modern funds) to support his work.He opened the new priory with a public religious procession, the first held by English Catholics since the time of the Tudors.