They made a promise to God, those villagers in 1600s Bavaria. This was their vow: If God would spare everyone in town who remained, if God would keep them alive amid the plague that had spread to ...

Passion Plays - the dramatic representations of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ - began in medieval Europe as a way to teach a largely illiterate population the biblical story.

The passion of the Christ procession, a local Good Friday tradition that has been performed along downtown streets since the early 1980s, comes together much the same way as any production. There is ...

OBERAMMERGAU, Germany — Almost 400 years ago, the Catholic residents of a small Bavarian village vowed to perform a play of “the suffering, death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ” every 10 ...

Passion Plays - the dramatic representations of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ - began in medieval Europe as a way to teach a largely illiterate population the biblical story.