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Hundreds gather at Leicestershire abbey to honour saint-to-be

Tansi worked as a teacher when he was a young man before he became a Catholic priest.

He was ordained for the Onitsha diocese in Nigeria at the age of 34 and arrived at the Mount Saint Bernard Abbey in 1950 to follow a monastic life.

He died in the Leicester Royal Infirmary on 20 January 1964, at the age of 61 and was buried in the monastery grounds. In 1986 his remains were exhumed and returned to Nigeria.

Father Nicholas Palmer, guest master of the abbey, said: “[Tansi] lived a very holy life – a very simple life but a very holy life.

“In 1998, he was what we call beatified, that means he was declared a Blessed in the Catholic Church because of the holiness of his life – that’s why we are celebrate him each year because he’s a Blessed in the church.

“He could very well become a saint and that’d be great for our abbey, to have a saint associated with our abbey.”


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