Arthur Blessitt, who carries the cross in the world, died at the age of 84

Arthur Blessitt, Hollywood’s warm effort to turn hippies along the Sunset Strip, the decision to carry a 110 pound of wooden crosses from Los Angeles – and then traveled 43,340. The miles died on January 14 from each country of the planet. He was 84 years old.

Mr. Blessitt’s death was declared in the first person’s statement on your own site. The statement did not show the cause of death or death. He lived in the Denver region and his service was located around the colon, Littleton.

Southern Baptist, who manages the Christian coffee shop adjacent to the strip club, Mr. Blessitt started his journey by carrying a 6×12-foot cross on his shoulder on his shoulder on the Christmas Day of 1969. He made adjustments along the way, changed the sandal with boots and added a 12-inch wheel to the bottom of his load; He later changed with a 42-pound version where the heavy doubled the douder can divide.

Walking the country took him six months. After graduating, he returned to Los Angeles, but he said he had commanded Jesus to go to the global journey.

“Go!” Jesus told him, he spoke on his website. “I want to go all the way.”

His first visit to abroad in 1971 to Northern Ireland; Soon, other parts of Europe, Africa, the Middle East and East Asia followed.

“Smile in his hand. Jesus loves you, “he distributed his article to those passers. Not everyone was kind: the police officers were following him, and dissatisfied with his cells – in all places – in the city of Assisia, the Bible was stolen.

In 2009, in 2009, “Some see me and shouted:” You are crazy! “Cross: Artur Blessitt story“Director Matthew Krouch. “I say, ‘I don’t have the wrongdoing, at least I’m bent in the right bolt.”

Mr Blessitt took the longest notes (about 500 miles away) and how often they were arrested (24 times). He visited every continent, including Antarctica, as well as the battlefields, catastrophe zones and many other places where he could be beaten or be arrested.

He climbed Mount Fuji in Japan and faced angry babuns in Kenya and exploded almost by terrorist bombs in Northern Ireland – all was buried. He fell to the book of the Ginness Records.The longest lasting pilgrimage visit. “

It took him about 40 years, but in 2008 he completed the search for visiting every country in the last North Korea. His “Walking” there was a large symbolic symbolic: Authorities allowed him to take the cross from the front door to the hotel.

Mr. Blessitt’s journey had the forrest GAME quality. He walked not only the country; During his adventures, he faced a long list of people trying to influence his complex agenda on what historical personalities, Yasser Arafat, Billy Graham, Bob Dylan, as well as a simple and innocent message.

He said in 1999 to The Independent newspaper: “When people in the third world see me, I think is my holy person. I am an anti-abortion protest and other people are right. “

The campaign for decades for decades made him a small celebrity. The profiles were always reduced to zero with his stubborn approach to his persistence and task.

In 1978, he said to People magazine: “How much attention is paid to a person bearing the Great Wooden Cross.”

Arthur Owen Blessitt missed in Greenville, October 27, 1940. Arthur On Blessitt and Mayor (Kampbell) was born in Blessitt’s family and grew up in the northwest of Louisiana, managed by his father’s cotton farm.

He studied history at Mississippi College at Mississippi College, History at the Christian Institute at Mississippi Clinton, but left there without diplomas in 1962. Then the Golden Door in Okland, California, reads in the Baptist Theology Seminary (present in the present Gateway seminary), and at the same time did not complete his degree.

In 1967, before living in Los Angeles, he had time in Montana and Nevada states around the Western mountain as a journeyman.

He found himself in the mid-1960s, but he also faced the first sprouts of the strange movement of Jesus, who combined hippie styles and free Christian good news.

Mr Blessitt began to preach in the bars, clubs and concert halls. He wore a long-haired and sandal part and confused their wizes with drugs and rock references.

“If you want to rise, there is no need to throw acid. Just pray and you will go to heaven, “he wrote in the work of” the greatest journey of life “(1970), one of many religious treatises. “There is no need to hit the pills to be loaded. Leave a little Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. “

Mr Blessitt married Sherry Simmons in 1963. They divorced in 1990. That same year he married Denise Brown.

He is the children of his first marriage, Gina, Joy, Arthur Joel, Arthur Joshua, Arthur Joseph and Arthur Jerusalem; Sofia daughter from second marriage; His sister Victoria; 12 grandchildren; and a granddaughter.

Mr Blessitt, with flowing locks and giant troops, and even when a village head in Liberia was wrongly, and even in Liberia, the Son of God himself.

He said in an interview with the New York Times in 1997: “This is the only time I think to stop. “I put the cross on the tree and said,” O LORD, I will never try to get your glory and show myself as a religious leader. ‘I heard Jesus whispered to me: “Don’t worry about it. Just go on the road. ‘”