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Show Tho Passion Play. Accounts. vary ns to the dnte thnt marks the beginning of the Oberam mergaii' "Passion Play." Some have It'tlmt the rtistom was Instituted centuries cen-turies boforo tho thirty years' war, with n cessation during thnt period. Itellnhle chroniclers luuliitaln that It cannot he Iruccd further back thnn W.1-1. Thine Ihivnrhin peasants mndo n vow thnt If the plague would cense, they would glvo the play every decade, n vow they faithfully 1,-ept until tho sequence huh broken because of tho wnr. ' n |