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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. On 15 July 2019, the Holy See gave the nihil ...
Since his martyrdom, word of his life has spread around the world, and miracles have occurred in association with his name. 1921. Born at Skirwith, Cumbria 14th June. 1933. Greshams School, Holt, Norfolk. (John Bradburne is back row second from right) 1940. Commissioned into 9th Gurka Rifles. 1943-45.
Sep 20, 2019 · A Victorian cardinal called John Henry Newman, who died over 120 years ago, will be canonised later this year. Bradburne's supporters believe the momentum is there for him to be beatified.
Sep 20, 2019 · A few days later, on 5 September 1979, John Bradburne would be dead. Abducted from his small hut in Mutemwa, north-east Zimbabwe, tortured and shot in the back - accused of being an informer. The ...
Jun 14, 2021 · The centenary of John Bradburne’s birth an occasion to reflect on an extraordinary life, says his great-niece. June 14, 2021 marks the 100th birthday of my great uncle, John Bradburne: soldier ...
Jul 13, 2019 · The poet and secular Franciscan John Randal Bradburne was born at Skirwith, in the English county of Cumberland, on June 14, 1921. He was one of five children of Anglican clergyman Thomas William Bradburne and Erica May Hill. Educated at Gresham’s, an independent school in Norfolk, he was a member of the institution’s Officer Training Corps.
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Jun 10, 2021 · John Bradburne was born in remote Skirwith high up in the Cumbrian Fells, where he spent a happy early boyhood. When I first met him, 14 years before his gruesome murder in Zimbabwe’s rural ...
