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| Joel J. Marangella... |
 Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 6:58 pm |
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THE MIRACLE OF THE GREATEST NAME
The photograph below shows the believers assembled at the nineteenth Annual
Convention of the Bahášíšs of the United States and Canada at Montreal,
Canada, during April 29 to May 3, 1927.
http://bahai-guardian.com/two.html
My twin sister, Ayned, and I, at the age of nine, are the only children in
this photograph and appear holding the framed picture of The Greatest Name.
Our parents, Edith and Phillip Marangella, are seated immediately to our
right. It would be almost four decades later that I was destined to become
the third Guardian of the Faith following my appointment by the second
Guardian of the Faith, Mason Remey, in strict conformance with the
divinely-conceived, sacred and immutable provisions of the Will and
Testament of Abdušl-Bahá the Architect of the Baháší Administrative
Order.
The photograph below shows the believers attending the twenty-eighth
National Convention of the Bahášís of the United States, during April 30 to
May 2, 1936, assembled on the steps of the Baháší Temple inWimette,
Illinois. Then nearing eighteen and about to graduate in June of that year
from High School in Chicago, I appear at the forefront of the asssembled
friends in a crouched position below the painting of The Greatest Name, a
painting which I did not know then had been painted by Mason Remey.
http://bahai-guardian.com/wilmette.jpg
http://bahai-guardian.com/jbm.jpg
Nor could I have forseen, in my wildest imagination at the time, that this
painting of The Greatest Name, drawn by one who would be appointed by Shoghi
Effendi in 1951 as his successor and, fifteen years later in 1957, with the
passing of Shoghi Effendi, accede to the Guardianship of the Faith, at the
advanced age of 83, would, through a completely unforseen chain of events,
come into his hands almost a half century later when he had by that time
become the third Guardian of the Faith appointed by Mason Remey. For, this
painting of The Greatest Name had, subsequent to this photograph, been given
by Mason Remey to a Mrs. Klebs who, as her life drew to a close and until
she died, had resided in the home of Esther Sego of Augusta, Georgia, upon
the wall of whose house it was displayed until the end, in turn, of her
life. Her son, acting under her instructions to give this painting of The
Greatest Name to the Guardian upon her own passing, shipped it in 1986 to
the undersigned in far off Australia where, since then, it has been
prominently displayed on the wall of my home. It was as though, in this
somewhat miraculous way, this painting of The Greatest Name, fashioned by
Mason Remey so many years before had been indirectly bequeathed by him to
the one that he had appointed as his successor in his own hand-writing, as
long ago as 1951, well before his own passing in 1974.
http://bahai-guardian.com/greatestname.jpg
Joel Bray Marangella
Third Guardian of the Baháší Faith
Australia
THE PROCLAMATION OF JOEL BRAY MARANGELLA Dated November 12, 1969
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/jbm.proc.html
THE PROCLAMATION OF MASON REMEY Dated Ridván, 1960
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/Mason.proc.html
EULOGY TO MASON REMEY February 6, 1974
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/eulogymason.html |
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