The onetime street preacher said he overcame thieves, attacking baboons, and snakes on his odyssey hauling a wooden cross on a 43,000-mile pilgrimage on foot.

Arthur Blessitt, whose fervent efforts to convert the hippies, freaks and addicts along Hollywood's Sunset Strip were just a ...

Arthur Blessitt, a onetime street preacher in Los Angeles who set off on a cross-country trek on Christmas Day in ... his cross was stolen in Assisi, Italy, when he stopped for a meal at a ...

The gorgeous Tuscan city of Florence, Italy is known for many things ... during the day or at night for an amazing sight. Every Christmas season, in the Piazza Santa Croce (which we mentioned ...

People had a lot of questions when they saw a hippie minister with slightly shaggy hair hauling a 12-foot cross with a wheel ...

Landscapes, architecture, art and food leave an unforgettable experience for tourists visiting Italy | OBOZ.UA ...

The Rosa Alba turned pink when Mary blushed at the angel's Annunciation, the Christmas Rose sprang up to provide flowers ... the Feast of the Purification of Mary. In Italy and other countries in ...

The Holy Doors of the basilicas of Rome, the beautiful churches, the countryside around Assisi, the gelato and the pasta and ...

One brief song which he wrote, O Little Town of Bethlehem, has secured almost universal recognition, as if it were destined to be sung so long as Christmas ... in this way, Italy, Germany, and ...

Venerated in his lifetime, Saint Francis did not have to wait long for a monument to be erected in his honor. A basilica in ...