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John Randal Bradburne, OFS [1] (14 June 1921 – 5 September 1979) was an English lay member of the Third Order of Saint Francis, a poet, and warden of the Mutemwa leper colony at Mutoko, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Bradburne was killed by nationalist guerrillas and he is a candidate for canonisation.
John Bradburne (1921–1979) lived an extraordinary life. He was a reluctant hero of the Second World War, a pilgrim and a hermit, a poet and a musician, a joker and a mystic, and a theologian.
Sep 20, 2019 · A wanderer and somewhat eccentric, John Bradburne had arrived in Rhodesia 17 years earlier at the age of 41, looking for a "cave to pray in". He came with three wishes for this life: to...
Sep 20, 2019 · Since his death, John Bradburne has become a revered figure in Zimbabwe's Catholic community. Thousands travel to Mutemwa on annual pilgrimages to pray, and there is a growing movement...
John Bradburne (1921–1979) lived an extraordinary life. He was a reluctant hero of the Second World War, a pilgrim and a hermit, a poet and a musician, a joker and a mystic, and a theologian.
The John Bradburne Memorial Society was founded as a charity in England in 1995 in order to help support Mutemwa Care Centre in Zimbabwe. It was set up in honour of it’s late warden, John Bradburne who spent the last 10 years of his life from 1969 -1979 caring for the leprosy patients of Mutemwa.
This site makes available the entire literary output of John Bradburne - or, at least, as much as has so far come to light. It consists primarily of poetry, but in 2022 all surviving prose letters, postcards, and other items of a domestic character (mainly letters to his mother) were added, at the request of the John Bradburne Memorial Society.
