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Show The Passion Play. Accounts vary as to the date that marks the beginning ot the Obcrani- mergau "Passion Play." Koino huve I H that the custom was Instituted centuries cen-turies beforo the thirty years' war, with n cessation during that period, Ilellable chroniclers maintain that It cnuuot bo traced farther back than 1034. Those Bavarian peasants made . n vow that If the plague would ceaso, thoy would give tho.play.et'ery decade, n V6W 1ho' fatthtullyvVept until tht l-.wuu'wrf.TwHusr McacM.f4thi |