A PROMISE KEPT for 366 years in Oberammergau. It was started as an answer to prayer for the BLACK PLAGUE to stop in their village. If anyone is afraid of the CORONAVIRUS then Pray. There are MANY stories of God stopping the spread of deadly diseases when the people prayed. This is only ONE of them. 2020 will be another 10th year for it to be performed. OBERAMMERGAU PASSION PLAY 2020 Once every 10 years the tiny village of Oberammergau in the Bavarian Alps takes center stage and hosts one of the most spectacular culture events on the planet! More than half of the villages’ 5000 residents take part in a dramatic open-air performance of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. THE HISTORY OF THE PLAY "IN 1633 the soldiers returning home after the Thirty Years' War brought with them the black death. They did not realise that the bacillus Yersinia pestis was spread by the fleas which were carried by the black rats which accompanied the soldiers. But the village of Oberammergau in the Bavarian alps of southern Germany was one of many which, free from the plague so far, tried to keep things that way by preventing anyone entering the village from outside. One newly married villager, however, had left in an unsuccessful search for work, and returning, knew how to slip past the guards and the watch-fires. One of the presents he brought back to the village was the bubonic plague. Within the next few months, 84 people from a population of only about 600 had died from it. So the villagers MADE A PROMISE. Gathering in front of the large crucifix which still hangs in the parish church, they vowed that if God would HALT THE PLAGUE, they would re-enact the last week of Jesus's life every 10 years as a thank-offering. From that day, nobody else died of the plague in Oberammergau. The next year, 1634, the first Oberammergau Passion Play was performed in a meadow in front of the church. From 1680 they decided to hold it at the beginning of each decade. With two exceptions, which have been compensated for by extra performances, they have kept their promise every 10 years since then. Few of us today would think we were bound by a promise we had made a few months past; the villagers of Oberammergau see themselves as under an obligation to do what their ancestors vowed 366 years ago. No make-up is used, so already many villagers have grown long hair and beards in order to take a part in the play which will be performed from May to October 2000. In the 17th century, Passion Plays were quite common in many parts of Europe. Like the stained glass windows, the mystery plays, performed in carts in the street, were the "poor man's Bible," enabling even the illiterate to become more familiar with the stories of Scripture than many of us today. I discovered there are at least 76 places, from Sri Lanka to Arkansas, which perform Passion Plays regularly today. But Oberammergau is the only place where the play has its origin in a vow, and has been performed without a break for three and a half centuries". https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/historical-notes-a-promise-kept-for-366-years-in-oberammergau-1131213.html LOOKS LIKE A BEAUTIFUL PLACE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dpP5qcgwUs