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He had many names: Bottadio, Cartafilus, Budedeo, Isaac Lacedaem. However, Agasfer became established – under this name we know a man who once hit Christ and was punished for it by Jesus eternal life.
The legend of Agasphere
“Dolog and hard was the way to Calvary. Sweat and flowing from under a crown of thorns blood poured over his face. A heavy cross pressed on his shoulders. Around came the Pharisees, shouting insults and spitting at him. Jesus stopped at a house and put his hand on the wall. “There is nothing, there is nothing! Go where you went! “- The owner of the house pushed Christ off the wall and under the laughter of others hit him in the back with a shoe block. “Good, – unclenched Christ’s caked lips, – I’ll go, but you will wait of my return. ”
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And since then the Jerusalem cobbler has been wandering around the world, no neither family nor home. And everywhere he is haunted by a story about a fool, drove the unfortunate from his home. And wherever he comes everywhere asks if anyone has seen a man with the Cross? After all, only the second coming of Christ will deliver him from physical and moral torment. ”
This is the legend of the eternal wanderer Agasphere, known from from ancient times, although in no New Testament text do you find references to her. This oral tradition would have long been forgotten, erased from memory if from time to time in different parts of Europe the eternal wanderer did not appear, the Eternal Jew Agasfer, leaving Numerous evidence of its existence.
Punished by eternal life
The first written mention of Agasphere we find in labor John Moshas “Leymonarion” (VI century AD). Among others in this a storybook is a story about a meeting of a monk with a beggar an Ethiopian who claimed to be the one who once hit Of Christ.
In 1228, the Archbishop of Armenia, who was in England, told about meeting with a certain Joseph. He claimed to have seen Christ, talked with him and drove away from his house, for which he was punished eternal wanderings. Joseph said that at the time of his he was 30 years old and has not died since. Everytime, reaching the age of 100, he experiences terrible torment, which lasts several days. At the end of them he again becomes 30 year old. The story of the bishop of Armenia remained on the pages The Great Chronicle of Matthew of Paris (1230).
In 1242, this man appeared in France, in 1505 in Bohemia, there is evidence that he was later seen in Arabic East, and in 1547 Agasfer appeared in Hamburg, where with him met Pul von Aitzen, who later became a doctor theology by the bishop of Schleswig and having left memories of meeting.
From Paul von Aitzen’s Records
“Once during a sermon, I noticed a high a man in a dilapidated robe and with long hair. He looked 50 years. After the sermon, I went up to him and asked who he was and where from. The stranger introduced himself as a Jew from Jerusalem, thereby that he didn’t let Jesus rest near his house when he walked on execution. Agasfer said that he followed Christ and saw death The Son of God. Over the centuries of wandering unhappy through rage, despair and bitterness went on to realize his guilt.
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Now he is waiting for the second coming of the savior in the hope that he forgive him, because he committed his sin out of ignorance. Then Agasfer, like many of his fellow tribesmen, he considered Christ a false prophet, worthy executions and a terrible sentence considered fair.
I tried to inquire about this man, and found out that he behaves modestly, moderate in food and drink, never laughs, little says he doesn’t have any property, keeps gifts from offerings a little, and everything else is distributed to the poor. ”
Subsequent wanderings of Agasfera
With the advent of typography of evidence of the eternal wanderer it has become much more. During the XVI-XVII centuries, Agasfer was noted in Madrid, Vienna, Lubeck, Paris, Hamburg, Brussels, Leipzig. With him Chroniclers, burgomaster, papal legates, bishops talked leaving notes about it. In 1658 he ended up in England, where Oxford professors, trying to expose him as a fraudster, staged a wanderer a kind of exam. Agasfer, for many years who went around the whole earth, defeated them with his knowledge in the most ancient history, geography and ability to communicate freely at all languages known to professors.
In the 19th century, Agasfer mainly “toured” Scandinavian peninsula – most of the reports of meetings with him to Denmark and Sweden. All witnesses described Agasfera as high and stooped man with long hair in rags or well-worn clothes, noted his knowledge of many languages and absolute indifference to earthly goods.
But in the 20th century, Agasfer disappeared. Either people have become callous and ceased to be interested in the tramp in tatters, or he himself this I didn’t want to, because it’s known that Agasfer never spoke first, but only answered questions. It is possible that the eternal wanderer is not disappeared, and still wanders somewhere near dreams and hard looking for a man carrying a cross.
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