"Pat" wrote in message
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> tim.... wrote:
>> "Dick Snyder" wrote in message
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>>>> "Dick Snyder" wrote in message
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>>>>> My wife and I will be hiking in the Dolomites in Sept 2010 and are
>>>>> thinking of trying to get to Oberammergau to see the pagent. Have
>>>>> you been? Should we try to drive there or park the car and take a
>>>>> train? We are Protestant
>>>>
>>>> I'm very confused
>>>>
>>>> Why is this fact the slightest bit relevant (to anything at all
>>>> related to travel in Europe)?
>>>>
>>>> tim
>>>>
>>> I misinterpreted your question in my previous reply. You were asking
>>> why I mentioned that we were Protestant. You are correct, it is not
>>> relevant. My thinking is that the passion is much more important to
>>> Catholics but none of that is relevant.
>>
>> TBH I wasn't aware that the Passion play was a religious pilgrimage
>> at all. I have assumed that it was one of those things that people
>> interested in the arts try to do just because of it relative
>> uniqueness/difficultness.
>> No I haven't been.
>>
>> tim
>
> This is a joke, right? The "passion" in passion play is about the death of
> Jesus.
Yes, why should that making going to see it a pilgrimage for members of a
specific religion?
tim
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