A university student on Friday died while acting in a recreation of Jesus’s crucifixion as onlookers thought it was part of the act.
Sule Ambrose, 25, was a student at the Clariantian University of Nigeria, CUN, located at Nekede in Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State, in Nigeria.
Ambrose who was acting as Simon Peter, Jesus’s most important Disciple dressed up in a long white toga for the Good Friday reenactment.
But he slumped on the ground during the performance and began bleeding. Onlookers thought it was part of the reenactment, throwing the audience in total confusion, local media reported.
“At the time the incident occurred everybody came together and rushed the deceased to a school hospital and later, when the case became worse, he was taken to a nearly Federal Medical Center, FMC. It was from there we heard he could not survive it ‘’, a source told local media Vanguard News.
“Initially when it happened we thought it was a joke, and that it was part of the drama, it was when he could not get up that was when we knew it was a serious matter and he was rushed to hospital,” the witness added.
‘It was when he could not get up that was when we knew it was a serious matter and he was rushed to a school hospital. Later, when the case became worse, he was taken to a nearly Federal Medical Center. It was from there we heard he could not survive it.’
The cause of Ambrose’s death remains entirely unknown, the seminary confirmed.
News of his tragic death follows suggestions by a leading scholar that Jesus died after dislocating his shoulder carrying the cross.
Retired neurologist Patrick Pullicino said Jesus died of complexities related to his shoulder wound, rather than anything else.
The Rev. Prof Pullicino has written a scientific paper about his theory and published it in the Catholic Medical Quarterly.
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