An Extraordinary Life
On November 27, 2021, Baha’is the world over will commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the passing of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, one of the three central figures of the Baha’i Faith. He is not yet well known to much of the world, but his influence on the early Bahá'ís of Urbana was profound. Born on May 23, 1844, he lived for 77 years, more than 40 years as a prisoner of conscience with His family in exile in the prison city of Akka in old Palestine. Some of the first Bahá'ís in Urbana visited him in Palestine, others attended his talks in 1912 when he traveled in the United States for eight
