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a Brazilian who claims to be the second Jesus reincarnated in 1969.
This gets the timing wrong. Inri Cristo’s own site and a National Geographic profile say his claimed revelation/awakening as Christ happened in 1979, not 1969.
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The post says Inri Cristo "claims to be the second Jesus reincarnated in 1969." But the available biographical sources do not place his Christ claim in 1969.
- INRI CRISTO's own website says the key event was in September 1979, "when he had the revelation of his identity."
- National Geographic likewise reports that "Sometime in 1979 ... he came to believe that he was Jesus Christ reborn," and summarizes this as "His awakening came in 1979."
1969 appears to refer to an earlier stage of his public life as an astrologer/prophet, not to the claimed revelation that he was Christ. So the year attached to the reincarnation claim is incorrect.
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- Inri Cristo's steps to the fast - a biographical account - INRI CRISTO - The FATHER's Emissary
This documentary registers the places where INRI CRISTO wandered in the eve of the fast in Santiago of Chile, in September 1979, when he had the revelation of his identity.
- This Man Claims He Is Jesus Christ Reincarnated | National Geographic
His awakening came in 1979... Sometime in 1979, while Álvaro Theiss was fasting, he came to believe that he was Jesus Christ reborn.
committed mass suicide on 26 March 1997
The March 26 date is the discovery date, not the suicide date given by major histories. Reliable accounts place the Heaven’s Gate deaths in waves on March 22–23 or, more broadly, in late March before the bodies were found on March 26.
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This phrasing is too specific and uses the wrong date for the suicides themselves.
- A&E's Heaven's Gate timeline dates the deaths to March 22–23, 1997, and says the first suicides began on March 22.
- HISTORY's March 26 entry is specifically about the cult members being found dead that day; the article separately says that in late March 1997 Applewhite and his followers drank phenobarbital and vodka and died.
So March 26, 1997 is best understood as the discovery date, not the date the group "committed mass suicide."
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- Heaven's Gate: Marshall Applewhite | A&E
Quick facts ... Date: March 22-23, 1997 ... On March 22, the first of 39 suicides began.
- Heaven's Gate cult members found dead | March 26, 1997 | HISTORY
Following an anonymous tip, police enter a mansion ... and discover 39 victims ... In late March 1997 ... Applewhite and 38 of his followers drank a lethal mixture of phenobarbital and vodka and then lay down to die.