From lavish productions to gory barrio dramas, reenactments of the crucifixion and the Via Crucis are doggedly making their way back into the spotlight. A Holy Week Passion Play takes place at San ...

The preacher’s weekly challenge—What story shall I tell?—is perhaps less challenging in Holy Week than at any other time except Christmas. The Passion story provides characters, plot, dynamics, and ...

The U. S. has no Oberammergau, nestling among mountains and presenting every decade a Passion Play to commemorate its deliverance from pestilence.* But many a Roman Catholic parish offers some kind of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jos Julio Olivares portrays Jesus Christ during a re-enactment of the Passion of Christ in the Good Friday procession, part of the ...

The famed Passion Play of Oberammergau, Germany, is apparently acceptable to Adolf Hitler, but has been postponed this year on account of the war. Considered the most important of the Passion Plays, ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Passion Plays - the dramatic representations of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ - ...

There were Roman soldiers in authentic costumes beating Jesus cruelly with whips as he dragged a bloodstained cross. A resurrection scene with rumbling thunder and dancing red lasers. And Jesus rising ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carrying a large cross, Raul Garcia portrays Jesus in the 2024 production of the passion play at Travis Park. (Josie Norris/San ...