Campaign begins to recognise Brother Michael Strode, monk who founded the HCPT, as a 'modern-day saint'

A campaign is to be launched to canonise a monk who dedicated his life to taking disabled people to Lourdes.

A Mass celebrated at Our Lady of Victories Church in Kensington, London, will mark the formal establishment of a committee to promote the cause for sainthood of Brother Michael Strode, the founder the Hosanna House and Children’s Pilgrimage Trust (HCPT).

A former doctor who eventually became a Cistercian monk of Caldey Abbey, Pembrokeshire, Wales, Brother Micha\el died on December 27, 2019, at the age of 96 after spending 65 years organising pilgrimages to Lourdes for disabled people.