This article appears in today's Leicester Mercury:
Pilgrimage for priest to be made a saint
Hundreds of Catholics will be making a pilgrimage to an abbey to pray for a former priest to become Britain's first black saint.
Blessed Cyprian Tansi, who was born in Nigeria, was a monk at Mount St Bernard Abbey, near Coalville, for more than a decade.
He arrived in Leicestershire from Nigeria in 1950 to train for the priesthood and remained a monk at Mount St Bernard's for 14 years, until his death in 1964, aged 61.
Due to his devout life as a Cistercian monk, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, in March 1998, for his humility after a miraculous cure for a sick woman who prayed to him in Africa.
At the abbey on Saturday Catholics will be praying and asking God to make him a saint.
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