Four hundred years of Christian devotion in a small Bavarian town
I published the article below in the Deseret News on 8 June 2018. Next year, I will be leading a tour for the Cruise Lady company next year to Oberammergau and adjacent sites — as will Jack Welch, Brad Wilcox, and Roger Minert. Mine will be the longest of the tours, but also (alas!) the most expensive:
Without treatment, the bubonic plague — which is spread mainly by infected fleas carried by small rodents — kills between 40 and 60 percent of its victims, and sometimes even more.
When it swept through Europe, Asia and Africa as the notorious Black Death in the mid-14th century, no really effective treatment for it was known — and somewhere between a quarter and two-thirds of the population of Europe died. Altogether, the entire population of the world may have dropped from an estimated 450 million to around 350-375 million. Some estimates, in fact, put the global death toll as high as 200 million.
In this May 10, 2010 file photo Andreas Richter as Jesus, center on donkey, performs with laymen during a dress rehearsal of the passion plays 2010 in the theatre of Oberammergau, southern Germany. More than 2,000 citizens of this Bavarian village participate in the century-old play of the suffering of Christ, staged every 10 years and dating back to 1634.
Over the next several generations, Article source: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2019/07/four-hundred-years-of-christian-devotion-in-a-small-bavarian-town.html