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by bcadmin | May 27, 2022 | Arts, Features, June 2022, Magazine, News, Oberammergau, Travel & Pilgrimage | 0 |
I don’t recall too many conversations in my life beginning with the words: “When I was on the cross last night…”. But there was one the other week in Oberammergau, as the entire Bavarian village geared up for the opening of this year’s Passion Play. It was nigh impossible to walk into a bar or
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 6, 2022 | Bavaria, Black Death, Featured, News, Oberammergau, Passion Play, Passionsspiel, Reformation, U.S. & World News | 0 |
In 1633, at the height of the Reformation, the Black Death was sweeping through Europe, including the southern German region of Bavaria. The terrified people of one small village decided to do something to protect themselves from this pandemic: The villagers vowed that every 10 years they would perform a “Passionsspiel” — a play depicting the Passion of Christ — should their hamlet be spared.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 9, 2020 | Black Death, Coronavirus, Lent, News, Oberammergau, The Dispatch | 0 |
Alarm over the spread of coronavirus has led the Italian government to place more than a dozen northern provinces—including Lombardy, which totals 16 million people with its city of Milan—under travel lock-down for three weeks. […]
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