"FRANCIS"
Born : January 24, 1907 - London, England
Died : June 24, 1984 at 8 am - Woombye, Queensland, Australia
Buried : 29th June at 2:30 pm at Avatar's Abode, Woombye, Queensland, Australia
Nationality : Australian
![An ad for Francis's fathers bookshop from a publication called The Labor Call, 17 May 1934, Melbourne. Courtesy of W K](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i931cc13dd39999c1/version/1563430404/image.png)
Francis lived and worked at the above address in Fitzroy with his parents during the 1930s. An Indian restaurant is the current business.
![Glow mag. August 2002 p.4 "Sierra Nevada 1947"](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=300x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i7f35767d4104d6c1/version/1295617435/image.jpg)
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![Francis building Meher House - Sydney mid-1950s ; Glow -August 2002 p.8](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=300x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i36e2181ab1dd44d1/version/1459488689/image.jpg)
![Francia greeted in Poona, India. (far left ) K.K. Ramakrishnan & Meherjee Karkaria on the right. Courtesy of MN Publ.](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=710x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i683d39fac7cc0479/version/1593207116/image.jpg)
![Feb.1954 - Andhra,India ; Playing to the camera - Courtesy of MN Collection](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i399ace76d0a648a2/version/1459954416/image.jpg)
The following sequence of images is from the video "Meher Baba, The Awakener".
India - 1954 ; Behind Francis are Australians Bill Le Page & John Ballantyne.
![India ; 1954 - Behind Francis are Australians Bill LePage and John Ballantyne](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i5fbdb3e8191cf6c5/version/1424178213/image.jpg)
![June 1958 - Meher Baba at Avatar's Abode, Queensland. Stan Adams is holding the pillow for Baba. Image rendition by Anthony Zois.](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=710x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i2147484091f4a85a/version/1656397836/image.jpg)
![India ; ( L-R ) Adi K Irani, Francis, Baba, Bhau Kalchuri & Eruch Jessawala - Photo taken by Panday; Courtesy of MN Collection](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=490x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/idaa1baa7e17f635a/version/1424178171/image.jpg)
The following sequences of images are from the video "Meher Baba, The Awakener"
![India 1954 ; ( l - r ) Frank Hendricks, Charles Purdom, Phillippe Dupuis, Francis and Ben Hayman](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i0e1b21cb494188bf/version/1420179929/image.jpg)
![1954 - Upper Meherabad, India. Meher Baba with both his Eastern & Western followers. Francis is seated on the top row, left of Baba. LM p.4500](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=710x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/if01640f9d88be5a6/version/1602008624/image.jpg)
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![India](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i63b11a114cb32594/version/1316712087/image.jpg)
![1954 : Meherabad - ( L-R ) Eruch, Gustadji, Fred Marks, Meher Baba, Kaka with umbrella, Kumar and Francis far right](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=490x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/ie086dbb6af3d0e2d/version/1394680756/image.jpg)
![1971 ; Avatar's Abode](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=490x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i23487716d0160b24/version/1392166252/image.jpg)
Roy & Ros Hayes in the background, Richard Lockwood - sitting, Lorna Rouse - far left.
![1971 ; Avatar's Abode - Courtesy of Raine Eastman-Gannett](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=490x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i7992475428735f71/version/1392166439/image.jpg)
Hazel Shipway sitting - far centre
![Avatars Abode Anniversary. 1981 : Francis Brabazon with Filis Frederick ( right ) & Ursula Reinhart.](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=531x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i0bf2e1668fd2732e/version/1454649398/image.jpg)
![Francis speaking with Eruch Jessawala, Dr. Goher looking on and Pendu behind her. Steve Kleiner (far left )](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=454x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i455c0bd291df2590/version/1557340594/image.jpg)
BOOKS BY FRANCIS
Check the 'Book List' in the "Books" folder for details on each title also under
'Books & Covers A-L , M-Z also 'Authors of Baba
Content'.
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EN EL POLVO YO CANTO
( IN DUST I SING )
FRANCES BRABAZON
SPANISH
Published & Translated by :
160p.
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Quédate con Dios ( Stay with God )
FRANCIS BRABAZON
SPANISH
2007
Published & Translated by :
Friends Foundation for the Arts of Avatar Meher Baba
82 pp.
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FRANCIS BRABAZON
SPANISH
2007
Published & Translated by :
Friends Foundation for the Arts of Avatar Meher Baba
82 pp.
https://studylib.es/doc/6304879/qu%C3%A9date-con-dios---avatar-meher-baba
![This 1st edition has both Meher Baba's & Francis's signatures. Courtesy of Glow Int. magazine - Winter 2018](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=619x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i3fc294262cdbe0c1/version/1548833265/image.jpg)
Video of Francis building Meher House, Sydney, Australia
MUSIC BY FRANCIS
Video produced by Michael Le Page.
In memory of Peter Sumner.
And with many thanks to Sebastian Baker, Denny Moore, Cliff Hackford and Jamie Newell.
AUSTRALIAN ARTI
Click on the following MP3 file to hear the Arti
O glorious, eternal Ancient One
your face is a bright, transcendental sun -
lighten this dark world and the tears I weep;
my heart, Meher, I give to you to keep.
Creator, yet creationless you are -
truth and Truth's Body, divine Avatar
who, through compassion the three worlds maintains -
destroy this ignorance that life sustains.
These five lights are the whirling spokes of breath
of the world-wheel that bears me on to death
unless you, who are infinitely kind
break the wheel's hub which is conditioned mind.
This incense is my love, these fruits my art
which to please you I have shaped from my heart;
accept them as you would a simple flower
that has no use beyond it's shining hour.
You are my Self. I sing to you in praise
and beg your love to bear me through the days
till you, the Everlasting Perfect One,
illume by darkness with your shining sun.
Words & Music by : Francis Brabazon
Francis's Grave at Avatar's Abode, Queensland, Australia