A XXth Century Francis of Assisi

Today, we learn of a "lay missionary and poet" who had been "an officer in the Gurkhas," a "son of a Church of England vicar" who "was received into the Catholic Church in 1947," a man who had "once walked to Rome, lived for a year in the organ loft of a church and tried to live as a hermit on Dartmoor," and who ultimately "laid down his life for lepers in war-torn Rhodesia," "shot dead, almost certainly by guerrillas" — John Bradburne: anniversary Mass and talk / Hermit, vagabond... saint?