Zimbabwe

raged sure,"You 're here, John. You will be killed". The bearded one lay missionary with long to play straggly hair stopped his flute for a moment And Then shake off the thought and resumed.

A few days later, on may 5. In September 1979, John Bradburne , would be dead. Kidnapped from his small hut in Mutemwa, North-East Zimbabwe , tortured and shot in the back - accused of a Snitch.

The Warning sent to had been, by a Catholic priest Fidelis Mukonori, his friend and driver, as they wound their way through the dusty streets to Mutemwa leprosy colony.

The War of independence was to intervene on The Settlement . And the Rhodesian had withdrawn forces from the area.

"The [war of liberation] guerrilla would never have killed him," father Mukonori the BBC says. He believes it was The Work of the Rhodesian Special Forces , pretending to be guerrilla struggle against the white minority government.

Since his death, John Bradburne Catholic community has become a revered figure in Zimbabwe .

thousands travel to Mutemwa on annual pilgrimages, to pray, and there is a growing movement within The Church in support of his beatification.

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A wanderer and a bit eccentric, John Bradburne had arrived in Rhodesia for 17 years previously at the age of 41 years, to pray in search of a "cave".

He came up with Three Wishes for the life: to die in the care for People with leprosy, to be a Martyr and to be buried in the Franciscan habit.

The Son of an English vicar, he had converted to Catholicism, after being injured in the British Army in Malay, and Burma, where he was in the fight.

He entered the Mutemwa leper colony in the year 1969, as a guardian of his home in a pre-made tin-hut with a grass Mat for his bed and a few belongings.

The Work for the leper colony, brought him the validation he has never in his middle-class existence in the United Kingdom.

"He said to me: 'From The Day I discovered my eyes on these People , I'm also a leper among My Own People "," father Mukonori says.

He remembers Bradburne say: "working for and with You , I feel appreciated that I can do something good with it and they Call Me Baba [father] Joh. "

Colleta Mafuta, 78, is one of The Few surviving humans, which is maintained with leprosy whom he. Her hands were eaten away by the disease as a child and she came to Mutemwa for the treatment.

"He came with few Possessions , just love," she recalls.

"The Colony was dirty and the People were dirty. There were no medicines, no clothes, and the People were starving. He took care of all the needs of nutrition of the People , and the wash and bandage our wounds. "

Every Day for a decade, his routine was the same. He was swimming up to 03:00 PM, the leprosy patients; they were fed at 07:00. Then he would help lead You to a service in The Church , before taking a five-Kilometer (three-mile) run.

Bradburne was also a poet who composed songs of worship and religious verse. In one he describes himself as a "Vagabond of God ".

With his trademark red headband, he was a striking figure, often with other leaders in The Settlement .

His Family , she writes of his efforts to prevent the exploitation of the leprosy patients and its requirement that patients be treated with dignity.

Since his death, several People have claimed miraculous healing after praying to him.

This is one of the conditions for canonization in the Catholic Church . It is also said that at his funeral, held in Harare, a small stain of unsettled blood appeared under his Coffin .

However, it took years for the Vatican to agree to His Family , the request to consider him for Holiness.

His niece, Kate Macpherson, the push took over for the beatification of your late mother, Celia brig stocke. Wife of brig stocke had formed, to push the John Bradburne Memorial Trust in the year 1995, as a charity and as a vehicle for his Holiness.

"You came here often, and saw The Miracles and saw the People and the love," Mrs Macpherson said.

"It was actually People always say in contact with her - religious, laity - easy to use: there is Something More to it. Every year, pulses are collected, and the testimonials come in the hundreds of thousands.

"It is not everyone who can say: " My great-uncle could be a Saint '," she laughs, "this is a unique and Surreal Thing . "

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This year, the Vatican approved what is called the "talk of the opening of The Cause " Holy Bradburne.

The formal process is a question of arguments for and against a candidate to be a Saint .

thousands of curious members of The Church flocked to the fair, to be held on may 5. September , coinciding with the commemoration of The Anniversary of his death.

There were no opponents for The Cause .

It means that The Local Church is now to examine a team, the certificates, compile, then sent a report to Rome, the Assembly of the saints.

If another miracle recorded in his name, then he is probably going to be declared a Saint .

Just another Briton has been canonized in The Last 40 Years . A Victorian cardinal John Henry Newman, who died over 120 years ago, will be canonized later this year.

Bradburne-followers believe that the dynamics of spoken of to be there for him, saved. Your only hope is that it reaches in your life.

A ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of John Bradburne of the death is held at Westminster Cathedral in London, Britain, on Saturday, 21. September .

Source of news: bbc.com