Ο Bob Marley είχε βαπτιστεί Ορθόδοξος έναν χρόνο πριν πεθάνει!
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| η επίσημη βάπτιση του έγινε στις 4 Νοεμβρίου 1980 |
Ο Bob Marley λοιπόν είχε βαπτιστεί Χριστιανός Ορθόδοξος. Παρά το ότι είχε ασπασθεί την Ορθοδοξία όπως η γυναίκα του και τα παιδιά του αρκετά χρόνια πριν, η επίσημη βάπτιση του έγινε στις 4 Νοεμβρίου 1980, έναν χρόνο σχεδόν πριν δολοφονηθεί από το πολιτικό κατεστημένο της Τζαμάικα. www.jamaicans.com/culture/rasta/ethiopian_church.shtml
Δείτε το ντοκουμέντο της Ορθόδοξης κηδείας του και περισσότερες λεπτομέρειες στο βίντεο που ακολουθεί...
Twenty four years on few know of his conversion to Christianity.
In
May 1981, the world lost the man who had been described as the “first
Third World superstar”. The Hon. Robert Nesta Marley O.M. died on 11th
May 1981 in a Miami hospital after an 8 month battle with cancer. He
was 36.
However, what most people don’t know, and many try to cover up, is the fact that Bob Marley converted to Christianity in 1980. In fact on 4 November 1980 he was baptised and became a member of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. When he was buried under Orthodox rites on 21st May 1981 it was with his Bible and his Gibson guitar!
Bob Marley was born at Nine Miles, St
Ann’s in Jamaica. His father was Norval Sinclair Marley, a 50 something
Liverpool born captain in the British Army. His mother, an 18 year old
teenager, was Cedella Booker. His birthday is thought to be 6th
February 1945 although no birth certificate has ever been found.
His mum, and his grandparents, read the
Bible at home and worshipped in a Christian church. Bob Marley strayed
away from that upbringing as a teenager and as an adult embraced
Rastafarianism. He had married Alpharita Anderson in February 1966 and
while he was away in the USA earning some money to pursue his musical
career she had converted to Rastafarianism following the visit to
Jamaica of Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia. Rastafarians
worshipped Selassie as the Messiah and Saviour. Bob followed suite and
spent his career expousing the beliefs of Rastafari in songs like “One Love“, “Jammin‘” and “Exodus“.
The worship of Selassie is a little
ironic as Selassie was a Christian and in the 1970′s personally
commissioned Archbishop Abuna Yesehaq to go to Jamaica to start a
church that worshipped Christ and not himself in the hope that
Jamaicans would follow the true Christ. Yesehaq became the head of the
Kingston chapter of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
The Archbishop (pictured left),
interviewed by Barbara Blake Hannah for Gleaner’s Sunday Magazine
(November 25 1984), told how Bob Marley had come to his church for some
time. When he had expressed a desire to be baptised, people close to
him who controlled him and who were aligned to a different aspect of
Rastafari prevented him from going ahead.
The Jamaicans.com website says that Bob
remained outside the church for several years after Rita and the
children converted in 1972. Bob was under the spiritual guidance of the
archbishop but was baptised just a year before his death, after 3
aborted attempts to convert in Kingston. He backed out each time, says
the Archbishop, after being threatened by other rastas. Marley was
finally baptised in the Ethiopian Church in New York where less
resentments were less inflamed. The Archbishop christened him Berhane
Selassie – “light of the Trinity”.
