Francis Brabazon
<p ><b>Francis Brabazon</b> (24 January 1907 - 24 June 1984) was an Australian poet and a member of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meher_Baba" title="Meher Baba" >Meher Baba</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandali" title="Mandali" >mandali</a>.
In the 1940s, Brabazon became interested in Eastern spirituality and soon became a student of the Australian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufism" title="Sufism" >Sufi</a> leader Baron <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_von_Frankenberg" title="Friedrich von Frankenberg" >Friedrich von Frankenberg</a>.
Brabazon and a party of helpers built "Beacon Hill house" near Sydney in time for Baba's first visit to Australia in August 1956. It was later renamed "Meher House". In 1958 Brabazon helped establish a new center on a 99-acre (40 ha) estate on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiel_Mountain,Queensland" title="Kiel Mountain, Queensland" class="mw-redirect" >Kiel Mountain</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woombye,Queensland" title="Woombye, Queensland" >Woombye, Queensland</a> to host Meher Baba on his second visit. While he was there, Meher Baba named the area <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar%27s_Abode" title="Avatar's Abode" >Avatar's Abode</a> and said it would become a place of world pilgrimage.
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