Jesus of Orlu - More Saints in Nigeria?
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Posted by Felix Okoli on September 04, 2010 at 03:47:26:
Did Jesus come from Orlu? Why the sensational stories? Is this another Reverend King or false prophets in the likes of Jesus of Oyingbo and co? Well these were just part of the thoughts coming to my head when I read this piece today on the Sun Newspapers.
The story is about a man who had died in 2002 named Innocent Chima Okorie, a family man who has a wife and children, one of whom is a Catholic priest.
The caption on the from page of the Sun read:
Behold, Jesus of Orlu, worshiped by adherents, even in death
Perhaps, the way they captioned it made it look like the man was claiming to be Jesus, but after reading in detail the whole story, I found out that Chima Okorie was simply a humble mechanic who happened to have experienced the life of Jesus and received signal graces during his life such that people were attracted to his supernatural experiences and some of them were healed.
When things like this happen in Christendom, we say that God is giving us a sign. Initially I thought that the man claimed to be Jesus or a Messiah like Rev. King and was working miracles using some power and at the same time drawing people to himself but he was just a simple man who lived a humble life and prayed with his family everyday except that he experienced the wounds of Jesus as if he were Jesus. This is what they refer in Catholicism as stigmata and he is not the first person to have experienced this.
The story is that during Good Friday and certain feast of the Church, he physically experiences the same whipping of lashes and torture which looks like what Christ experienced and blood is seen coming out of his body by his family, while some invisible forces were torturing him. That is not all, people who were ill or needed a prayer request recognized the presence of Christ in him and sought for miracles which were granted. Till today people still go to his grave to pray because they believe that there is a supernatural power around him.
If Jesus of Orlu or Innocent Chima Okorie lived a holy Christian life, just like Blessed Iwene Tansi, chances are that he would be the second person in Nigeria who will be on the path to Sainthood to be recognized by the church. This does not mean that there are no other Saints in Nigeria, only that these ones have been publicly recognized by the Church.
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Re: Jesus of Orlu - More Saints in Nigeria? Posted by Anyanwu Innocent Iheanyi on Wednesday September 9, 2015 at 12:34:6: Jesus has shed his blood for mankind,once and forever.If you accept Him and do that which right in His sight ,through the experiece of the NEW BIRTH,He too will accept you;nomatter the christian denomination you come from.ONLY JESUS OF NAZARET,there is no other
Did Jesus come from Orlu? Why the sensational stories? Is this another Reverend King or false prophets in the likes of Jesus of Oyingbo and co? Well these were just part of the thoughts coming to my head when I read this piece today on the Sun Newspapers.
The story is about a man who had died in 2002 named Innocent Chima Okorie, a family man who has a wife and children, one of whom is a Catholic priest.
The caption on the from page of the Sun read:
Behold, Jesus of Orlu, worshiped by adherents, even in death
Perhaps, the way they captioned it made it look like the man was claiming to be Jesus, but after reading in detail the whole story, I found out that Chima Okorie was simply a humble mechanic who happened to have experienced the life of Jesus and received signal graces during his life such that people were attracted to his supernatural experiences and some of them were healed.
When things like this happen in Christendom, we say that God is giving us a sign. Initially I thought that the man claimed to be Jesus or a Messiah like Rev. King and was working miracles using some power and at the same time drawing people to himself but he was just a simple man who lived a humble life and prayed with his family everyday except that he experienced the wounds of Jesus as if he were Jesus. This is what they refer in Catholicism as stigmata and he is not the first person to have experienced this.
The story is that during Good Friday and certain feast of the Church, he physically experiences the same whipping of lashes and torture which looks like what Christ experienced and blood is seen coming out of his body by his family, while some invisible forces were torturing him. That is not all, people who were ill or needed a prayer request recognized the presence of Christ in him and sought for miracles which were granted. Till today people still go to his grave to pray because they believe that there is a supernatural power around him.
If Jesus of Orlu or Innocent Chima Okorie lived a holy Christian life, just like Blessed Iwene Tansi, chances are that he would be the second person in Nigeria who will be on the path to Sainthood to be recognized by the church. This does not mean that there are no other Saints in Nigeria, only that these ones have been publicly recognized by the Church.
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Re: Jesus of Orlu - More Saints in Nigeria?
Posted by malachy
on September 04, 2010 at 21:51:47:
Indeed God has continued to prove to the world that the Church of Christ is the Catholic Church. Many signs superior to ordinary abracadabra is often seen in this Church.I will remain a catholic till death.
Re: Jesus of Orlu - More Saints in Nigeria? Posted by Onukogu JudeMary on May 30, 2012 at 06:58:10: It is really a divine privilege to have a share in d sufferings of Christ as a stigmata. For those who think suffering is a curse, I think u should begin to hv a rethink.
Re: Jesus of Orlu - More Saints in Nigeria? Posted by kingsley iheanyi anyanwu on September 17, 2012 at 08:12:19: Indeed there are good people in Nigeria. No matter how bad we might see ourselves or people may see us, the truth remains that there are people in this country who does not want to be distracted by the negative happenings in our land, those people have not made this earth their home. The Holy Book said in Romans 2:1 that man has no excuse. God will not entertain any excuse from any Nigerian who thinks because evil exist and for that reasons would not walk in the part of righteousness. Heaven is real and so is hell, be u a christian, moslem or whatever YOU WILL ANSWER TOR YOUR DEED SOMEDAY.Make decision now.
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Re: Jesus of Orlu - More Saints in Nigeria? Posted by Anyanwu Innocent Iheanyi on Wednesday September 9, 2015 at 12:34:6: Jesus has shed his blood for mankind,once and forever.If you accept Him and do that which right in His sight ,through the experiece of the NEW BIRTH,He too will accept you;nomatter the christian denomination you come from.ONLY JESUS OF NAZARET,there is no other