The eager efforts to convert hippies, freaks, and addicts along the sunset strip in Arthur Bresit, Hollywood, are over order to carry a 110 -pound wooden cross from Los Angeles to New York City. He did not -and after that, he died on January 14th, traveling on all countries on Earth traveling 43,340 km in miles. 84 years old.
Breshit's death was published in a first -person statement on the website. The statement does not mention where he died or the cause of death. He lived in the Denver area, and the ministry was located on the outskirts of Litton, Colorado.
Breshit, a preacher of the southern baptist, who runs a Christian coffee shop adjacent to the Strip Club, started traveling on a hand -made cross of 6 feet x 12 feet on Christmas day in 1969. 。 He made adjustments on the way, replaced sandals with boots, and added a 12 -inch wheels to the bottom of the luggage. He then replaced the heavy cross into two, a 42 -pound version that can be divided into two, making it easier to ship.
He took six months to walk around the country. After that, he returned to Los Angeles, but according to his story, he was just ordered to travel a global trip.
“Go!” Jesus told him, he told the website in detail. “I want you to proceed forever.”
His first overseas travel in 1971 was North Ireland. Other areas in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and East Asia followed.
He was carrying a roll of a sticker with “smile!” Jesus loves you, “he said to curious passers -by. Not everyone was friendly. Police officers harassed him, dissatisfied people skipped wild, and in Italian Assisi, where St. Francisco once lived, his cross was stolen.
In the 2009 documentary “The Cross: The Story of Arthur Breshit,” Matthew Crouch said, “Some people look at me and shout,” You are crazy! ” “I'm okay, at least I'm screwed into the correct bolt.”
Breshit has stored a close note overseas, and recorded how long the boots last (about 500 miles) and the arrested frequency (24 times). He visited all continents, including Antarctica, and visited many places, such as combat areas, disaster areas, and other gunfits, or being beaten or arrested.
In Japan, he climbed Mt. Fuji, confronted his angry hee in Kenya, and was about to be blasted by bomb terrorism in Northern Ireland, but all of them remained on their backs. He has been registered in the Guinness World Record as “the longest pilgrimage.”
It took nearly 40 years, but in 2008 it was allowed to enter the last North Korea and completed the search for visiting all countries. His “journey” there was mainly symbolic. The authorities allowed him to carry the cross from the front door of the hotel to the street, and to return.
Breshit's journey had a character like Forest Gump. He is not just traveling all over the country. In the middle of the adventure, he not only encountered a long list of historical people, such as Yashil Arafat, Billy Graham, and Bob Dylan, but also his complicated intentions in his simple and innocent message. I also met people trying to push.
“In the third world, the first thing I see and think is that I am a sacred man,” he told the independent newspaper in 1999. “I'm a protest activist opposing an abortion, but others think I'm the right wing.”
With his election campaign for decades, he became a minor celebrity. The profile always focused on the combination of his tenacious patience and the terrible approach to work.
In 1978, he told People's magazine, “You will be surprised at how much attention a man carrying a big tree cross is attracting.”
Arthur Owen Bracitt was born on October 27, 1940 between Arthur on Bresit and Mary (Campbell) Bathescit, and his father runs a cotton farm. I grew up in the countryside in the northwest.
He studied history at Mississippi University, a Christian educational institution in Clinton, Mississippi, but dropped out in 1962 without a degree. Later, he studied at Golden Gate Baptistism (now Gateway theological School) in Auckland, California, but dropped out before obtaining his degree.
He began his activities as a patrol preacher around Mountain West, spent his time in Montana and Nevada, and settled in Los Angeles in 1967.
He noticed that he was in the middle of a 1960s counter culture, but he also encountered the early buds of the Jesus Freak Movement, which combined the hippie style and the bohemian Christian evangelism. I did.
Breshit was welcomed by the spirit of the time, or was simply tolerated and began sermon in bars, clubs and concert halls. He played a role in long hair and sandals, and mixed the preaching of drugs and rock and roll.
“For example, if you want to be high, you don't have to drop acids. You can go to heaven just by praying,” he said, one of his numerous religious booklets, “Life's Best Trip.” I wrote it in 1970). “You don't have to take a tablet to fill it. Drop Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John a little.”
Breshit married Sherry Simmons in 1963, but divorced in 1990. In the same year he married Dennis Brown.
She is the survivor, and the children from his first marriage, Gina, Joi, Arthur Joel, Arthur Joshua, Arthur Joseph, Arthur Jerusalem. My daughter Sofia was formed between the second marriage. Victoria, his sister. 12 grandchildren. And grandchildren.
Breshit, who has a flowing hair and a huge cross, was sometimes mistaken for Jesus' spoofing, and even when a village leader kneeled in front of him, he was even mistaken for the child of God.
“I only wanted to stop,” he told the New York Times in 1997. “I stood a cross on a tree and said:” Lord, I never take your glory and try to look like a religious leader, 'and Jesus is whispering me. “Don't worry, just continue on the road. “
