{"id":6824,"date":"2025-08-31T17:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T17:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ciofs.info\/?p=6824"},"modified":"2025-09-12T01:31:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:31:24","slug":"september-2025-saint-of-month-servant-of-god-john-bradburne-1921-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciofs.info\/fr\/2025\/08\/31\/september-2025-saint-of-month-servant-of-god-john-bradburne-1921-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Septembre 2025 \u00ab Saint du mois \u00bb : Serviteur de Dieu John Bradburne (1921-1979)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"John-Bradburne\"<\/a>
John Bradburne Photo \/ John Bradburne Memorial Society<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

N\u00e9 d\u2019un vicaire anglican et de sa femme dans le comt\u00e9 de Cumberland (aujourd\u2019hui Cumbria), en Angleterre, Bradburne a \u00e9t\u00e9 baptis\u00e9 dans l\u2019\u00c9glise d\u2019Angleterre. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il a servi dans l\u2019’arm\u00e9e indienne en Inde, en Malaisie et en Birmanie. Pendant la guerre, la foi devint le moteur principal de sa vie. Il rencontra \u00e9galement le futur p\u00e8re John Dove, SJ, qui jouerait un r\u00f4le d\u00e9terminant dans sa vie.<\/p>\n

Apr\u00e8s la guerre, John retourna en Angleterre et s\u00e9journa chez les B\u00e9n\u00e9dictins \u00e0 l\u2019abbaye de Buckfast. L\u00e0, il se convertit au catholicisme et fut re\u00e7u dans l\u2019\u00c9glise en 1947.<\/p>\n

Bradburne ne s\u2019int\u00e9ressait absolument pas \u00e0 la politique, aux questions sociales ni \u00e0 l\u2019actualit\u00e9. Il errait \u00e0 travers l\u2019Angleterre, la France, l\u2019Italie et le Moyen-Orient, souvent \u00e0 pied, transportant ses affaires dans un petit sac et presque sans argent.<\/p>\n

Il a essay\u00e9, sans succ\u00e8s, de rejoindre les B\u00e9n\u00e9dictins en Angleterre, les Chartreux en Angleterre, l\u2019Ordre de Notre-Dame du Mont Sion et une abbaye en Belgique.<\/p>\n

Bradburne poss\u00e9dait peu de comp\u00e9tences pratiques. Il jouait du plain-chant \u00e0 l\u2018harmonium et \u00e0 la fl\u00fbte \u00e0 bec, adorait les oiseaux, d\u00e9corait son logement de plumes et de cailloux trouv\u00e9s lors de ses promenades et ne mangeait qu\u2019une fois par jour. Avec plus de 170 000 vers, il d\u00e9tient un record mondial Guinness du po\u00e8te anglais le plus prolifique.<\/p>\n

En 1953, Bradburne fit v\u0153u priv\u00e9 \u00e0 Notre-Dame de ne jamais se marier et se consacra \u00e0 une vie de c\u00e9libat. Le Vendredi Saint 1956, il rejoint les Franciscains s\u00e9culiers.<\/p>\n

En 1962, il \u00e9crit \u00e0 Dove, demandant\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Y a-t-il une grotte en Afrique o\u00f9 je peux prier<\/a>\u00a0?\u00a0\u00bb Puis, il a travaill\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re itin\u00e9rante dans plusieurs centres missionnaires en Rhod\u00e9sie pendant sept ans avant d\u2019arriver en 1969 \u00e0 la colonie de l\u00e9preux de Mutemwa en Rhod\u00e9sie, \u00e0 90 miles au nord-est de la capitale Harare.<\/p>\n

Les conditions \u00e9taient \u00e9pouvantables, mais Bradburne a demand\u00e9 l\u2019aide m\u00e9dicale d\u2019une mission catholique voisine et a pris soin avec tendresse des r\u00e9sidents abandonn\u00e9s\u00a0: il a lav\u00e9, band\u00e9 et baign\u00e9, ainsi qu\u2019en enterrant les morts.<\/p>\n

Il s\u2019est disput\u00e9 avec l\u2019Association l\u00e9preuse de Rhod\u00e9sie \u00e0 propos de leurs projets de r\u00e9duire les rations et de les \u00e9tiqueter\u00a0; malgr\u00e9 son d\u00e9vouement et son service fid\u00e8le, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 expuls\u00e9. Pendant les six derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es de sa vie, il v\u00e9cut dans une cabane en t\u00f4le juste \u00e0 l\u2019ext\u00e9rieur du p\u00e9rim\u00e8tre de l\u2019enclos, \u00e9touffant sous la chaleur, tout en continuant \u00e0 s\u2019occuper de sa ch\u00e8re \u00ab\u00a0famille\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n

Dove note que Bradburne \u00e9tait une personne profond\u00e9ment affectueuse, \u00ab\u00a0rarement pleinement comprise et qui donnait toujours plus qu\u2019il ne recevait, souvent au prix de son c\u0153ur et de son esprit, et m\u00eame de ses biens mat\u00e9riels. Il donnait tout ce qu\u2019il avait \u00e0 ceux qu\u2019il aimait, comme il le fit d\u2019ailleurs \u00e0 la fin, au prix de sa vie.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

La guerre de Bush en Rhod\u00e9sie (\u00e9galement connue sous le nom de guerre d\u2019ind\u00e9pendance du Zimbabwe) a dur\u00e9 de juillet 1964 \u00e0 d\u00e9cembre 1979 et a oppos\u00e9 le gouvernement minoritaire blanc au pouvoir \u00e0 deux partis nationalistes africains.<\/p>\n

Alors que la guerre touchait \u00e0 sa fin et approchait de la l\u00e9proserie, plusieurs travailleurs humanitaires et missionnaires, la\u00efcs et catholiques, furent tu\u00e9s par les gu\u00e9rilleros. Les amis de Bradburne l\u2019ont encourag\u00e9 \u00e0 partir, mais il a refus\u00e9<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 enlev\u00e9 le 3 septembre 1979 et, deux jours plus tard, alors qu\u2019il \u00e9tait \u00e0 genoux pour prier, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 abattu d\u2019une balle dans le dos.<\/p>\n

Le 1er juillet 2019, la Congr\u00e9gation pour la cause des saints \u00e0 Rome a \u00e9mis un nihil obstat officiel <\/em>pour l\u2019ouverture de la cause de b\u00e9atification de John Bradburne. La cause a \u00e9t\u00e9 officiellement lanc\u00e9e le 5 septembre 2019 \u00e0 Mutemwa par l\u2019archev\u00eaque de Harare, Mgr Ndlovo.<\/p>\n

F\u00eate \u2013 5 septembre<\/p>\n

Source : https:\/\/angelusnews.com\/voices\/john-bradburne\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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