Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blessitt with his cross in St Peter’s Square, Rome, December 1979 - Edoardo Fornaciari/Getty Images Arthur Blessitt, who has died ...

A remarkable story of survival, perseverance and unquenchable spiritual passion becomes a blunt evangelical instrument in "The Cross: The Arthur Blessitt Story." A remarkable story of survival, ...

Arthur Blessitt, a onetime street preacher in Los Angeles who set off on a cross-country trek on Christmas Day in 1969 hauling a 12-foot cross to begin what became a more than 43,000-mile pilgrimage ...

Arthur Blessitt, whose fervent efforts to convert the hippies, freaks and addicts along Hollywood's Sunset Strip were just a prelude to his decision to carry a 110-pound wooden cross from Los Angeles ...

As the kind of evangelical documentary that would typically be shown on the church circuit, “The Cross” shouldn’t be judged by mainstream standards. It’s got a fervent Christian agenda and serves its ...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Of the many wacky entries in the Guinness Book of World Records, one of the most intriguing is the one concerning the "world's longest walk." The record belongs to ...

Arthur Blessitt is a Mississippi-born evangelist who wanders the globe toting a 12-foot wooden cross on his shoulder. He's been doing it for 40 years, starting in Los Angeles, where he had a Sunset ...

The protagonist has carried a cross all over the world, and has the powerful stories to prove it—but this documentary fails to do him justice. The numbers are staggering. 315 nations visited. 38,000 ...

Of the many wacky entries in the Guinness Book of World Records, one of the most intriguing is the one concerning the "world's longest walk." The record belongs to Arthur Blessitt, who has managed to ...

In 1968 Arthur Blessitt picked up a cross. Today, forty years later, Arthur has been on every continent and island nation with his twelve-foot cross, encountering people from diverse backgrounds, ...