Holy Virgin Mary, AIDS and Billy Bo (Vassilis Kourkoumelis ) - How the most famous Greek homosexual of the 1980s was saved
Holy Virgin Mary, AIDS and Billy Bo (Vassilis Kourkoumelis ) - How the most famous Greek homosexual of the 1980s was saved
Maybe some of you older ones will remember a face, a nice lad. He was gay, fashion designer, the famous once Billy Bo. We happened to hear from the lips of his spiritual father what his course was, which not many people tell, nor was it written specifically in the books published about him. Everyone wrote about the trips he took in Mykonos with celebrities, the adventures he had as a person. Thirst for life, thirst for love. But he didn't know where to find her and was looking for her on the wrong paths.
At some point the disease visited him. (Billy Bo was the first famous victim of AIDS in Greece.) "The disease is a bad thing," most people say. But sometimes it's for the best... And when the disease came and rang a spiritual bell, he heard the bell. Others just don't hear it at all and they die with the disease, whatever disease and they have not received spiritual notice of anything. He heard the bell, which means he had good evidence inside.
And the cleric narrates: "I see a child, a boy, like an angel he was, with the nice leather clothes all over. He walks into the church and says "Father, I want to confess." And took a look to see if it was a boy or a girl. He was tall, but he also had another beauty that looked like a woman's..."
So he started and confessed with remorse. He started to come, after a rule set by the clergyman, to socialize, to church, to pray, until he slowly collapsed and the priest was forced to go and confess him and to commune him at his home, in Kolonaki.
When the priest first entered the house, he thought he had entered some museum! It was a space decorated only with models, with photos of fashion shows etc., etc. Every time he would come after, a photo would leave and put an image (icon) in their place... In the end you thought you were entering a monastery.
When he left for America to look for treatments, he ordered an iron cross, big, breakable to fit in the suitcase, to put behind the door of his hospital room, to see the Cross of Christ and to pray.
The treatments didn't work, he came back, and the great downhill, the ruin, the road to death began. The blessed death, we would say. Because if we didn't die, guys, we would suffer for many years! So what about ?
And the cleric recounts: "At some point, I went on Saturday morning and communicated with him. The time comes when it's time for me to leave and Vassilakis says to me: 'Father, do me a favor, come after midnight today to commune me. Because I will leave before dawn, Virgin Mary warned me!' I said should I believe him, not believe him? Let me do him a favor, since the man asks for communion."
So, the priest went around 1-2 in the dark night and befriended Basil. And indeed God took him before dawn, at dawn on Sunday, as Virgin Mary had informed him! The priest was telling us these things and says: "Wish, my children, that I have Vasilakis' fees."
That's who Jesus is! That's what the church is, that doesn't confuse people. He doesn't tell them "bye bye" as they go off a cliff. This should not be happening. But on the other hand the Church doesn't let anyone down either. And it shows before people the way to theology.
So did Billy Bo. He didn't just get saved, but for the Virgin Mary to go and say "Get ready, you're coming," that means Vasilis went in a good position too! And we have countless such examples, from the ancient Christian years to this day...
SOURCE Unmuted excerpt from a speech by the priest Georgios Schinas
Homosexuality - Orthodox Blog
Translated from Greek
✚ Eternal Memory ✚
Vassilis Kourkoumelis
"Billy Bo"
(1954-1987)
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