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

Blessitt married Sherry Simmons in 1963. They divorced in 1990. That same year, he married Denise Brown. Brown survives him, as do his children from his first marriage: Gina, Joy, Arthur Joel ...

Beginning in 1969, the evangelical preacher said he carried a cross to every nation and continent on journeys that covered more than 43,000 miles on foot.

Mr. Blessitt married Sherry Simmons in 1963. They divorced in 1990. That same year he married Denise Brown. She survives him, as do his children from his first marriage, Gina, Joy, Arthur Joel ...