Mick Power, a former member of the ‘religious organisation’ run by Christina Gallagher, known as the House of Prayer. Mr Power got involved with the House of Prayer with his wife Paula in 1998, when their only child Tommy died of meningitis.

Mr Power is demanding that the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith investigate Ms Gallagher along with her spiritual director, Fr Gerard McGinnity, for heresy and unproven claims of miracles. The final straw for the 39-year-old came in 2006, when Fr McGinnity read out a message in which Ms Gallagher was allegedly told by Jesus that if pilgrims did not provide money for a new House of Prayer in Texas, he would destroy the whole state.