‘Haunted’ ground that became St Mary’s Yala

While the Protestant, Church Missionary Society (CMS) and the Catholic’s Holy Ghost Fathers were fighting an internecine war to gain attention of the Kabaka and thereby achieve territorial control in Uganda in the late 19th century, the Mill Hill Missionaries were quietly establishing stations in what was then eastern Uganda.

St Joseph Society for Foreign Missions, commonly known as Mill Hill Missionaries, is an order which was started in 1866 by Father Herbert Vaughan on the brow of a hill overlooking the village of Mill Hill, in the suburbs of London.