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Carl James Joseph was born in Detroit. But for the past 17 years he has lived in the Holy Land.
He is not a typical expat. He didn’t go to Jerusalem for work, and he doesn’t live among other expats in a tony Tel Aviv neighborhood.
Instead, James Joseph, 64, has spent most of the past decade living in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, in Jerusalem, built in the place where Jesus was laid to rest after the crucifixion, and where he rose form the dead.
He became a Catholic at 12, according to profiles of the man, and he worked in an office for a while, before taking up a pilgrimage life in his early 30s.
Also known as “The Jesus Guy,” James Joseph considers himself a pilgrim and an evangelizer, who tries to live like Jesus and the apostles, according to the mandate of trusting completely in providence.
He prays at Jerusalem’s holy sites, he talks with pilgrims, he studies scripture and prays the rosary. He tells people that he’s not Jesus and he’s not trying to portray Jesus. Years ago, he was frequently in the media, but he’s told reporters that he “ran away from that,” as it “got pretty intense.
The Pillar talked with him about his life, and his unusual mission.
Continued below.
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He is not a typical expat. He didn’t go to Jerusalem for work, and he doesn’t live among other expats in a tony Tel Aviv neighborhood.
Instead, James Joseph, 64, has spent most of the past decade living in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, in Jerusalem, built in the place where Jesus was laid to rest after the crucifixion, and where he rose form the dead.
He became a Catholic at 12, according to profiles of the man, and he worked in an office for a while, before taking up a pilgrimage life in his early 30s.
Also known as “The Jesus Guy,” James Joseph considers himself a pilgrim and an evangelizer, who tries to live like Jesus and the apostles, according to the mandate of trusting completely in providence.
He prays at Jerusalem’s holy sites, he talks with pilgrims, he studies scripture and prays the rosary. He tells people that he’s not Jesus and he’s not trying to portray Jesus. Years ago, he was frequently in the media, but he’s told reporters that he “ran away from that,” as it “got pretty intense.
The Pillar talked with him about his life, and his unusual mission.
Continued below.
Meet Jerusalem’s ‘Jesus Guy’
Carl James Joseph lives in voluntary poverty, trying to be like Jesus.
www.pillarcatholic.com
