{"content":[{"text":"Obituary of Brother Thomas Johnston, O.Carm.","bbox":{"left":0.23516,"top":0.063255,"width":0.530146,"height":0.022862999999999994}},{"text":"Born 6 November 1963","bbox":{"left":0.161041,"top":0.101807,"width":0.21372200000000002,"height":0.022481}},{"text":"·","bbox":{"left":0.387915,"top":0.101807,"width":0.006106,"height":0.022481}},{"text":"Professed 26 August 1994","bbox":{"left":0.407174,"top":0.101807,"width":0.23558700000000005,"height":0.022481}},{"text":"·","bbox":{"left":0.655913,"top":0.101807,"width":0.006105999999999945,"height":0.022481}},{"text":"Died 27 July 2013","bbox":{"left":0.675172,"top":0.101807,"width":0.16430900000000004,"height":0.022481}},{"text":"It is with sadness, but trusting in the mercy of God, that the British Province of \n Carmelites mourns the death of Brother Thomas Johnston, O.Carm.","bbox":{"left":0.095293,"top":0.159586,"width":0.8099780000000001,"height":0.042124999999999996}},{"text":"Tom died unexpectedly of a heart attack on Saturday 27th July 2013 (feast of the \n Carmelite martyr Blessed Titus Brandsma), aged 49 years, at home in the Carmelite \n community at Walworth, south London.","bbox":{"left":0.095293,"top":0.217449,"width":0.8100130000000001,"height":0.061363999999999974}},{"text":"Brother Tom, photographed in the summer of 2013.","bbox":{"left":0.334487,"top":0.594107,"width":0.331499,"height":0.016113000000000044}},{"text":"Born on 6th November 1963 in Glasgow, Tom grew up in Harrogate in a loving \n family environment and worshipped in the Methodist tradition. On completing \n school he became a butcher and never lost his liking for meat, always knowing a \n good cut! In his early adult years, Tom was drawn to Catholicism and eventually \n became a Roman Catholic. Some few years later Tom discovered the Carmelite \n Order, and through participating in a series of retreats at Hazelwood Castle in \n Yorkshire and at Aylesford Priory in Kent, he followed a prompting he felt to live a \n life of prayer, community and service as a Carmelite friar.","bbox":{"left":0.095294,"top":0.623196,"width":0.8100459999999999,"height":0.15777799999999997}},{"text":"Tom entered the Carmelite novitiate at Aylesford in September 1993, together with \n three others. A year later, sharing his life with the community, Tom professed \n temporary religious vows and went on to live in London, first at Hendon, and then \n from August 1996 in East Finchley, a new community of which he was a founding \n member.","bbox":{"left":0.095294,"top":0.796712,"width":0.810041,"height":0.099916}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}