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by 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 | Apr 20, 2020 | Black Death, Coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19 pandemic, Faith at Home, Fanucci, He's got the whole world in his hands, Julian of Norwich, Mothering Spirit, News, Revelations of Divine Love | 0 |
My son slides onto the piano bench and starts to play. Decades ago, I sat at the same piano and plunked out the same tune. The swinging rhythm rushes back to me now, familiar as a campfire song.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 4, 2020 | Black Death, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church History, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, History, News, Plague | 0 |
Correspondence can reveal a lot about periods of history and the letters written by popes during the Black Death are no exception. These documents, often responses to questions, provide a window into a long-ago era that is getting renewed attention amid today’s coronavirus pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Black Death, Bubonic plague, Featured, News, Our Lady of Lourdes, Plague, Saints, St. Achatius, St. Aloysius Gonzaga, St. Barbara, St. Bernadette Soubirous, St. Blaise, St. Catherine of Alexandria, St. Christopher, St. Corona, St. Cyriacus, St. Denis, St. Erasmus, St. Eustachius, St. George, St. Giles, St. Guy, St. Margaret of Antioch, St. Pantaleone, St. Roch, St. Sebastian, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, St. Vitus, U.S. & World News | 0 |
The Catholic Church has had a long tradition of calling on saints and praying for their intercession in sickness and difficult times.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 1, 2020 | 2020, Black Death, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, COVID-19, Francis X. Maier, Georges Bernanos, Justinian’s Flea, Justinian’s Flea Redux, News, Plague, Priests, Sacraments, sanctity, The Catholic Thing, William Rosen, Yale historian Frank Snowden | 0 |
Francis X. Maier: No one can make us give ourselves fully and sincerely to God. But if there were ever a time to do it, the COVID-19 crisis is it.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 26, 2020 | Black Death, Coronavirus, Film, Ingmar Bergman, Max von Sydow, News, The Dispatch, The Seventh Seal | 0 |
You may judge it a curious or sobering coincidence—the great actor Max von Sydow has just died, during the worst global epidemic in a century. Von Sydow was famous for his performance in Ingmar Bergman’s […]
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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