He was allowed to spend the last years of his life in the United States, only returning once to England when he came to consecrate the Church of St Sava in 1952, an occasion when Serbs in the thousands rallied from the mines and factories of England to the walls of the great church in Ladbroke Grove. The sacred edifice was packed and the overflow crowd streamed all the way to the London Underground, with Velimirović's voice sounding through the air on loudspeakers.