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 ...

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 ...

Blessitt with his cross in St Peter’s Square, Rome, December 1979 - Edoardo Fornaciari/Getty Images Arthur Blessitt, who has died aged 84, was an American preacher who, between 1969 and 2008, wandered ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Arthur Blessitt has walked across every nation, territory and island group on the planet — 38,102 miles, enough to hold the Guinness Book’s world record. And ...

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 ...

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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 LA where he had a Sunset Strip ...

Never play hide-and-seek in a haunted house. Isn’t that one of those motherisms handed down at the same time as “Look both ways before crossing the street”? But kids will be kids, especially in the ...

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 ...

Arthur Blessitt has carried the cross a record-breaking distance: 38,102 miles. DENVER, April 10, 2009 — -- Evangelist Arthur Blessitt made the Guinness Book of Records last year for completing ...