Strange Vagabond of God

John Bradburne's life was a remarkable spiritual odyssey. After wartime service on the Indian sub-continent he became a perennial pilgrim, never at home in the world, not even in his native England. Restless wanderings led him through Europe the the Holy Land, to a succession of religious communities, and ultimately to Africa, where he met a violent death during the Zimbabwean war of independence in 1979. In the years following his death, a devotion to his memory has sprung up. Poet, mystic, hermit and vagabond, John Bradburne's strange life was a ceaseless quest for God.