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Black Saints, Mystics, Holy Folk (The Ancient African Liturgical Church, Vol. I (to year 599 A.D.) Smith, James Wesly (Author) August, 2007, Third Ed. 456 p. Paperback 19.95 digital editions,16.99, contact www.booklocker.com/3088.html. (ISBN: 9781609103590; ISBN 978-1-60145-088-3; ISBN digital:9781609103590, http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/isbn9781609103590
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First published, August, 2007., in this third edition, folks traditionally surmised that Christian spirituality was brought into the African continent. Author James Wesly Smith indicates in this 456 reference tome.
“Not so fast. Yeshua (Jesus) grew up in Africa until age 6 or 7 to escape ing Herod’s 10 assassins,” Smith points out. He cites the Christian Bible references of Hosea 11:1, and Matthew 2:13-15, “Out of Africa, I called my son”.
Blending the lists of Coptic, Orthodox and Latin Rite friends of God called “saints”, Smith points out that more than 56,000 Black and African-heritaged folks labored in the faith. He says it was partly that because places such as Kemet (Egypt) was Rome’s bread baskets subject to higher taxes, this forced many holy folk into the deserts where the faith thrived.
In folksy style, Smith also goes onto to say that in ancient Macedonian, Greek, Roman, or even Ottoman Turkish maps, the term “North Africa”, is found nowhere. The attorney author concludes it as a colonialist construct to denigrate the achievements and contributions of holy Africans.
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57,000+ Black Saints, Martyrs, and Holy Folk Discovered in the Ancient African Church before 599 A.D.
“Out of Egypt I called My Son” See Hosea 11:1, Matthew 2:13-15
“Why do you follow a white god? Why do you worship in institutions that never accepted you?” — Stinging questions Black Catholics and others ethnic perennially parry from members in the historically Black Churches.
The questions traditionally have included queries from Al Islam (Muslims) believers in the urban areas.
But now evidence exists that Christianity (also) sprang out of the African, as opposed to the Saudi Arabia origination of the Prophet Muhammad and his original followers. Black Saints, Mystics, and Holy Folks (The Ancient African Liturgical Church, Vol. I). seeks to correct the oversight, especially as the Church grows by leaps in bounds in the Africa and the geologic and historical lands of Black Diaspora.
Such proofs can be gleaned from the 57,000 African Saints in the early 500 years from when Jesus (Yeshua) commissioned His apostles to go forth and teach all nations.
Horrors of enslavement and colonialism still haunt and direct the Black Church experience in the church.(The barbaric practice still exists in some parts of Africa and elsewhere). But now, Black Christians, Catholics and ethnics can show that Yeshua, Jesus the Christ, grew up in Africa, personally establishing an African root to His vine, and the branches.
Black Saints, Mystics, and Holy Folk shows that the once powerful African Church had at least five apostles ministering there before their departures to other lands. Cephas (Simon Peter) in set up a church in Babylon, Egypt before going to Antioch and finally Rome. Phillip visited and assisted the Ethiopian Eunuch (See Acts 8:26-39). Nathaniel Bartholomew Levi ministered in Africa.
Tradition calls Matthew, Apostle to the Ethiopians (See http://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j092sdMatthew_9-21.htm
And Jude Thaddeus Lebbeus (Jesus’ cousin) healed there, according to Black Saints introductory chapters. The Coptic branch of the one, holy catholic (which means universal) Church still manifests proud traditions of the Holy Family’s visits. (See Isaiah 19:1, Matthew 3: 13-15. http://touregypt.net/featurestories/journey.htm).
Important information, inasmuch United States Bishops (and those elsewhere) blew an opportunity to evangelize the formerly enslaved after the American Civil War.
As the Holy Catholic church struggles in the West, the Church African (originally part of the oriental Church), finds the leaves of growth regaining the light of day, bursting thought the concrete of neglect, persecution, and heresies of the Vandals, and Arians who nearly destroyed the African Church during the AD 400s.
With a April 2011, for all other digital editions street date, Black Saints Mystics, and Holy Folks (The Ancient African Liturgical Church, Vol. I, 4th edition),the 456+ page paperback, ebook, epub (and digital editions) can be ordered through Ingram, or Booklocker.com, Inc. PO Box 2399 Bangor, ME 04402-2399
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Two Free Black Saints, Mystics, Holy Folk videos Released
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Black Saints, Mystics, and Martyrs
Support for the 56,000 Black Saints, Mystics, and Holy Folk tome (The Ancient African Liturgical church to 599 A.D.. developed two additional, free video (Part I, and Part II).
Now available on line at You Tube, Google, Yahoo, and Veoh, to name a few, the short movies begin to flesh out the African genesis of Christianity and its thousands of ancient African saints, martyrs, mystics, and holy personages
Part I can be found at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUnU4xR5D9E
Part II at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMnYwZEfBg4
For the Bible tells us:
An angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph saying, "Arise, and take the child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and remain there until I tell thee. For Herod will seek the child to destroy Him."
14. So he arose, and took the child and his mother by night and withdrew into Egypt,
15. and remained there until the death of Herod; that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled, "Out of Egypt I called my son."
Mathew 2:13-15
Few Blacks Remember The African Genesis of Christianity
Still, few of us remember that Baby Jesus grew up in Africa, till the age of consent, the first 6 or 7 years, learning African culture, language, culture, mores and folkways. Jesus¡¯ sojourn there provided the spiritual soil from which more than 57,000 African saints, and martyrs later sprouted.
Ancient African Christians well knew of those fruits¡ªAfrican Bishops and Saints Augustine, Athanasius, Antony of the Desert, and Cyprian of Alexandria, and St. Catherine the Great of Alexandria, long before her contact with Joan of Arc. But we have forgotten our history in the Church. Most of us think we were converted by Europeans.
"Not so!" exclaims author James Wesly Smith in his second edition Black Saints, Mystics, and Holy Folk. "Christianity came out of Africa, not to it!"
"We've been involved in the Church from before day one,"Smith says. St. Clement points to Ethiopians present in the Upper Room at Pentecost. (The word Ethiopians was an ancient euphemism for Blacks or Africans).
In the Book of Acts, The Eunuch Finance Minister of the mighty warrior Kandake, Queen Candace of Axum/Nubia/Cush (Abyssinia) was included among the first Christian converts, "Smith says,
detailing knowledge of the Ethiopian and Egyptian branches of the Church-- that Baby Jesus was raised near Heliopolis, Old Cairo.
""A deeper Bible study shows that Herod was really title, and the Herod that died prompting Joseph and Mother Mary to return to Israel was replaced by Herod Archaeleus."
"That ruler caused Joseph to turn to Nazareth, itself a move of spiritual and historical significance," Smith said. The Nazarenes proved an especially religious part of the Habiru, reflected in the popular and religious artwork of Jesus to be shown in the white linen garments, with his hair parted in the middle. According to Smith, "they would be likened to the Hassidim of today."
This holiness reflected was picked up by the African branch of the Church, precipitating some of the greatest saints to flow from the African continent in the first four hundred years of Christianity," according to the author.
Thus, two new book videos now buttress the 30 year effort of Black Saints, Mystics, and Holy Folk, which s reflects that practice of holiness in the lists of more than more than 57,000 Black Saints, martyrs, and theologians, mystics, and general holy folk examples of how we should live our lives in the first 599 years alone.
Most were members of the powerful, Ancient African Church, nearly destroyed by the Arians and Vandals in the 400s A.D.
The 456-page book of more than 1000 lines will help readers to understand that Black folk have been in the Church since before the formal establishing of The Way, as Christianity was originally called.
The Loyola University (Los Angeles) trained author said evidence shows "the faith tradition flowed from the continent, long before missionaries of the 17th--20th centuries allegedly (and brutally) reintroduced the faith," Smith says.
He points out in his addendum that before the second century, most church literature and written thought proved to be of African origin.
"Our involvement really started the African Pharaoh Akhenaton (Amenophis IV) promulgation, "There is one God." Smith said. "Jacob¡¯s Habiru came to Egypt shortly thereafter."
"But for years, we had to challenge the unfounded concept that Europeans brought Christianity to Africa, (and by extension to the children of the geologic and historical Diaspora). This was a sore point," Smith said, stemming partly in the refusal of Southern bishops to evangelize Blacks after the American Civil War.
"And we continually struggle to answer our Al Islam brethren as to why we follow the ¡°alien¡± faith tradition we do. Now we have a focal point back to our ancestral land," Smith said.
Smith said that growing up, he was dismayed that all ¡°the saints we seemed to have was Martin,
Benedict the Moor, and the ¡°claimed¡± Peter Claver."
"We now know that before establishing churches elsewhere, at least five Apostles ministered in Africa:
--Peter (Cephas) went to Babylon, Egypt (Kemet).
--Evangelist Mark (Gospel of Mark) was African and died there.
--Matthew, writing his gospel around 80 A.D., is known as the Apostle to the Ethiopians.
--Phillip ministered to Ethiopia, and Thaddeus Jude Lebbeus, Yeshua¡¯s cousin, healed King Abghar, the Black.
"And Apostles Nathaniel Bartholomew Levi and Matthias evangelized in Africa."
Smith points out that research shows, "the term North Africa does not appear on any Old Roman, Greek, nor Ottoman maps. Roman charts did point to two Africas and Mauretanias, including Africa Proconsularis."
"And the Caesars fielded two African legions from the Thebaid, one of which was composed entirely of Christians and martyred. A hotel in New York is named after one of the generals, St. Maurice (St. Moritz)," Smith said.
"Black Saints, Mystics, and Holy Folks" is available through Ingram Book Group (worldwide) which distributes Black Saints, Mystics, and Holy Folk (The Ancient African Liturgical Church, Vol. I), Booklocker.com, Cushcity.com, as well as Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com (www.bn.com), and other sites online, or can be ordered wherever books are sold.
A second volume is planned for Christmas season release on the Black Christian saints from 600 A.D. to present day.
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