ʻO ka mea huna a ke kanaka kahiko o ka honua, kahi laʻana no mākou āpau

ʻO Emilio Flores Márquez hānau ʻia ma ʻAukake 8, 1908 i Carolina, ʻO Porto Rico, a ua ʻike ʻo ia i ka honua e loli nui i kēia mau makahiki āpau a noho ma lalo o 21 mau pelekikena o ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa o ʻAmelika.

I ka 112 o kona mau makahiki, ʻo Emilio ka lua o nā kaikaina 11 a me ka lima ʻākau o kona mau mākua. Ua kōkua ʻo ia e hānai i kona mau kaikaina a aʻo i ka hana ʻana i kahi mahi kō.

ʻOiai ʻaʻole lākou he ʻohana waiwai, hiki nō iā lākou ke loaʻa nā mea āpau a lākou e pono ai: ka home aloha, ka hana, a me ka hilinaʻi iā Kristo.

Ua aʻo aku kona mau mākua iā ia e ola i kahi ola nui, ʻaʻole i ka mea waiwai, akā i ke akua. Ua paʻa ʻo Emilio i kēia manawa i ka Guinness Book of Records ma ke ʻano he kāne ola mua loa o ka honua a koi ʻo kāna mea huna ʻo Kristo ia e noho nei i loko ona.

"Ua hānai koʻu makuakāne iaʻu me ke aloha, aloha i nā mea āpau," i wehewehe ai ʻo Emilio. "Ua ʻōlelo mau ʻo ia i koʻu mau kaikunāne iaʻu e hana maikaʻi, e kaʻana like i nā mea āpau me nā poʻe ʻē aʻe. Eia kekahi, ke ola nei ʻo Kristo i loko oʻu ”.

Ua aʻo ʻo Emilio i ka waiho ʻana i nā mea maikaʻi ʻole mai kona ola, e like me ka ʻawaʻawa, huhū a me ka manaʻo hōʻino, no ka mea hiki i kēia mau mea ke hoʻopōʻino i ke kanaka a hiki i ke kumu.

He laʻana maikaʻi a Emilio e hōʻike nei iā mākou i kēia lā. E like me ia, pono mākou e pili i ka ʻōlelo a ke Akua a ola i kahi ola nui i ke aloha ke aʻo mākou e ola no Kristo.