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A Passion Play for the Ages

February 17, 2020. Kim Foley MacKinnon

Faithful residents of Oberammergau, Germany, carry on a centuries-old tradition.

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A Passion Play for the Ages

January 30, 2020. Kim Foley MacKinnon

Fulfilling a promise made almost 400 hundred years ago, the tiny town of Oberammergau in Bavaria, Germany, has told the story of Jesus Christ’s last days every 10 years since 1634. The village pledged to do this as a plea to be spared further suffering from the plague that was ravaging Europe at the time….