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As of your reading this article, 15 pilgrims from Texoma, (14 others and I), will have traveled from DFW via Rome – the City where Peter and Paul were martyred and gave their lives for Christ – to Oberammergau in Bavaria Germany, to witness and experience “the Passion Play.” Oberammergau (pop. 5000) is a village in the Bavarian Alps where every 10 years the people of that village perform the pious “Play of the Suffering and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.” They have been performing this “Play” every decade since 1634. The ‘Play’s’ presentation can be traced back to the period in the 17th Century when the Black plague devastated Europe. In July 1633, survivors in the village gathered and made a solemn oath to God: that if He spared them from further deaths, (84 had already died) that every 10 years they would perform the “Passion Play of Christ” which follows the life of Jesus from the time he entered Jerusalem - on Palm Sunday - through His Resurrection, Ascension and Exaltation. God heard them and there were no more deaths from plague in their village. To this day the villagers of Oberammergau have kept their promise - to perform the play - virtually unbroken.
