Oberammergau Passion Play - 2010

Happens Only Once Per Decade...

L DY and Her Children Pilgrimages
cordially invite you to join us
Nestled high in the Bavarian Alps, the village of Oberammergau is a favorite destination for those
seeking respite and rejuvenation. But every ten years, it achieves mystical proportions. It began in
1632, when a woodcarver brought the bubonic plague home. Within a year, the plague ravaged the region
and had taken nearly a quarter of Oberammergau’s inhabitants. The town of Oberammergau vowed that if
God were to spare them from the effects of the plague, they would perform a play every ten years depicting Ancient World Culture and Bible Cruise
the life and death of Jesus. The death rate among adults rose from one in October 1632 to twenty in
the month of March 1633. The adult death rate slowly subsided to one in the month of July 1633. The
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villagers believed they were spared after they kept their part of the vow when the play was first performed

Oberammergau Christ Passion Play

in 1634. The most recent performance was in 2000. In 2010, the village will perform the play for the
4Ist time, and we invite you to experience the mystical power of this world-famous event with us.
The play, now performed repeatedly over the course of five months, during the first year of each
decade, involves over 2,000 performers, musicians, and stage technicians, all of whom are residents Happens only once every ten years
of the village. There were at least two years in which the scheduled performance did not take place. In
1770, Oberammergau was informed that all passion plays in Bavaria had been banned by order of the
Ecclesiastical Council of the Elector, Maximillian Joseph at the behest of the Catholic Church. In 1780,
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the play was re-titled The Old and New Testament. The new Elector, Karl Theodore, having been assured
that the play was “purged of all objectionable and unseemly matter” approved the performance of the play. Enhanced (14 days)
By 1830, the Catholic Church succeeded in halting the performance of all other passion plays in Bavaria.
Only Oberammergau remained. NOTE: The Oberammergau play has a running time of approximately Itinerary
seven hours. A meal is served during the intermission of the play. Audiences come from all over the world,
often on package tours, the first instituted in 1870. Tickets for this event are sold as part of the Lady and Her
Children package.

Under Spiritual Direction of

Rev. John J. Oldfield, OAR
$
2990 from New York/New Jersey.
Add-on from other cities available.
Category 2 Passion Play Tickets
pp in double inside cabin add
$220 for Standard outside cabin
Plus: $492 Airport tax
$195 Port tax

Including:
Oberammergau, Germany - Passion Play Tickets
Jerusalem - See the places where Christ Passion happened
Switzerland - See the Swiss Alps, the Lake District (Lugano and
Lurcerne)
Greece - Athens where St. Paul delivered his famous speech, Corinth,
the Greek Islands of Crete and Mykonos
Istanbul, Turkey - See the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia and an
opportunity to taste the culture of Turkey
Cairo, Egypt - See the Pyramids one of Seven Wonders of the world