Jesus Comes to Georgetown

Jesus came to Georgetown — to 1789 Restaurant, on Feb. 1, to be exact.

He stood in the Middleburg Room, a handsome young man with longish light hair and warm brown eyes. He spoke English with a noticeable but soft German accent. He told The Georgetowner he was homesick for his wife and young son (it was the first time he ever had been separated from them).

On the fourth day of a weeklong trip, he was also very tired. Before coming to Washington, D.C., he had traveled to Los Angeles. He was heading to New York City the next morning and the day after that to Toronto.

That’s because he was the star spokesperson for Travel Destination Germany. In the summer of 2010, he, Frederik Mayet, had played the lead role of Jesus Christ in the once-every-decade passion play in the Bavarian Alps town of Oberammergau.

Like the other actors in what is probably the most famous passion play in the world, Mayet had grown up in Oberammergau. He took part in a historic obligation going back to the 1600s, when in the midst of the horrible suffering of the Thirty Years’ War in Germany — followed by a deadly plague that wiped out almost a third of the German population —

Article source: https://georgetowner.com/articles/2018/03/21/jesus-in-georgetown/