A small German town has been performing a Passion Play every decade since the 17th century. Oberammergau, with its 5,000 inhabitants, began performances after being hit by the bubonic plague in 1633, according to the tourism site Grand European Travel. They vowed that if God spared their village, they would perform a “Play of the Suffering, Death and Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ” every 10 years. After first being performed in 1634, the Passion Play still runs and is performed on a stage built above a gravesite for those who died during the plague. Church records indicate that plague-r…
