The Passion Plays were held in the last month of the inundation ( the annual Nile flood, coinciding with Spring, and held at Abydos / Abedjou which was the traditional place where the body of Osiris / Wesir drifted ashore after having been drowned in the Nile.

* The first decennial performance of the Oberammergau Passion Plays is held.

* Pilate appears in the Mystery Plays and Passion Plays, the most notable being in the Cornish cycle in which he is summoned to Rome by Tiberius and sentenced to death for killing Jesus because this crime cannot be contained by earth, sea or water and so immediately proceeds ( body and soul, rather than just soul ) to hell.

In the Chester Mystery Plays ' portrayal of Christ's Passion, specifically his humiliation before his sentence to crucifixion, the accounts of the Gospels concerning the physical violence visited on Jesus during his trial before the Sanhedrin, and the humiliating crowning of thorns visited upon him in Pilate's palace ( or by Herod's soldiers, according to Luke ), is further confused by showing both actions as being carried out by jeering Jews.

Later on, Passion Plays made their appearance, first in Latin, then in vernacular languages ; contents and forms were adapted more and more to audience expectations, until, in the fifteenth century, the popular religious plays had developed.

Yet even this oldest of the Passion Plays already shows a tendency to break away from the ritual and to adopt a more dramatic form.

The oldest Frankfort Passion play, that of Canon Baldemar von Peterwell ( 1350 – 1381 ), the production of which required two days, was more profusely elaborated than the other Passion Plays of this period.

Connected with this group are the Eger, the Donaueschingen, Augsburg, Freising and Lucerne Passion Plays, in which the whole world drama, beginning with the creation of man and brought down to the coming of the Holy Ghost, is exhibited, and which was produced with great splendour as late as 1583.

Nearly all these Passion Plays have some relation to those coming from the Tyrol, some contributing to, others taking from, that source.

In Tyrol the Passion Plays received elaborate cultivation ; at Bozen they were presented with great splendour and lasted seven days.

The magnificent productions of the Passion Plays during the fifteenth century are closely connected with the growth and increasing self-confidence of the cities, which found its expression in noble buildings, ecclesiastical and municipal, and in gorgeous public festivals.

The Passion Plays of the 15th century, with their peculiar blending of religious, artistic, and increasingly secular elements, gave a true picture of German city life of those times.

Master Grobianus with his coarse and obscene jests was even introduced into some of the Passion Plays.

Thus, the Bishop of Havelberg commanded his clergy, in 1471, to suppress the Passion Plays and legend plays in their parish districts because of the disgraceful and irrelevant farces interspersed through the productions.

When, in the 17th century, the splendidly equipped Jesuit drama arose, the Passion Plays ( still largely secularized ) were relegated to out-of-the-way villages and to the monasteries, particularly in Bavaria and Austria.

* One of the most widely viewed Passion Plays in the United States is The Promise, performed near Glen Rose, Texas.

The origin of theatre in Christian societies in Europe is often traced to Passion Plays and other religious pageants, similar in some ways to the Purim plays.

As stated in the Boston College Guide to Passion Plays, " Over the course of time, Christians began to accept ... that the Jewish people as a whole were responsible for killing Jesus.

In her autobiography Research Is a Passion With Me ( 1979 ), she wrote that " the most cherished Christmas present of my life came in 1895.

In September 2006, former Big Brother contestant Eugene Sully ( who also worked for the Sussex-based station Passion Radio ) ' took over ' the airwaves and played The Muppets ' ' Mahna Mahna ' non-stop for six hours until Passion FM managers came round to his way of thinking that better music should be played on the station, and to be hired as a chief engineer there.

By mid-2008 Time Warner came on board to develop all 10 One eskimO animations which were produced the highly regarded Passion Pictures in London.

In particular, the internationally-famous rap legend Tupac Shakur, came out with his video hit called " Thug Passion ", and rapped about Hennessy, Alize and Moet.

Like the " Confrères de la Passion ", " la Basoche " came under political scrutiny ( plays had to be authorized by a review board ; masks or characters depicting living persons were not permitted ), and they were finally suppressed in 1582.

In her study Exuberance: The Passion for Life, she cites research which suggests that 15 percent of people who could be diagnosed as manic depressive may never actually become depressed ; in effect, they are permanently ' high ' on life.

Much of the extant information about the Passion of Osiris can be found on the Ikhernofret Stela at Abydos erected in the 12th Dynasty by Ikhernofret ( also I-Kher-Nefert ), possibly a priest of Osiris or other official ( the titles of Ikhernofret are described in his stela from Abydos ) during the reign of Senwosret III ( Pharaoh Sesostris, about 1875 BC ).

The Lenten significance of the Gospel account of Zacchaeus is that it introduces the themes of pious zeal ( Zacchaeus ' climbing up the sycamore tree ; Jesus ' words: " Zacchaeus, make haste "), restraint ( Jesus ' words: " come down "), making a place for Jesus in the heart (" I must abide at thy house "), overcoming gossip (" And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner "), repentance and almsgiving (" And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor ; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold "), forgiveness and reconciliation (" And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham "), and the reason for the Passion and Resurrection (" For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost ").

" He notes that " Passion will not wait ", and gives the example of cases of duels, in which the " advising friends have to determine whether the parties involved might be able to wait a while longer.

While there is no celebration of the Eucharist, it is distributed to the faithful only in the Service of the Passion of the Lord, but can also be taken at any hour to the sick who are unable to attend this service.

The Celebration of the Passion of the Lord takes place in the afternoon, ideally at three o ' clock, but for pastoral reasons a later hour may be chosen.

The towers are decorated with words such as " Hosanna ", " Excelsis ", and " Sanctus "; the great doors of the Passion façade reproduce words from the Bible in various languages including Catalan ; and the Glory façade is to be decorated with the words from the Apostles ' Creed.

It ’ s a piece so moving, so anguished – and so uplifting at the same time – that it would not be in any way out of place in the St. Matthew ’ s Passion ; matter of fact, I ’ ve always thought of Variation 15 as the perfect Good Friday spell.

In this regard the meaning of the painting can be interpreted as the ' Crucifixion ' and ' Resurrection ' of King Charles I, the great Stuart martyr whose murder was promoted in Jacobite rhetoric as paralleled to the Passion of Jesus Christ ( King Charles II returned from exile in 1660 ).

A fusion of rock, jazz, classical and Eastern tonalities, Passion and Warfare was a technical break-through in regards to what could be achieved in the field of guitar composition and technical performance.

Martin Luther wrote, " The Passion of Christ should not be acted out in words and pretense, but in real life.

The Passion continued to be very popular in Protestant Germany in the 18th century, with Bach's second son Carl Philipp Emanuel composing over twenty settings.

Thus, the Benedictbeurn Passion Play ( thirteenth century ) is still largely composed of Latin ritual sentences in prose and of church hymns, and, being designed to be sung, resembles an oratorio.

Passion Play in Duwa, Negombo which has been a full day programme on Good Friday could be the oldest and the best known catholic pageant in Sri Lanka, coming down from generation to generation with well preserved traditions.

All of the main folk tune of this play were sung be Srilankan legendary female vocalist Nanda Malini., Passion play music by Dinesh Subasinghe

* The Aberdeen Passion will be staged in the City of Aberdeen over the Easter weekend, 2012 in the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre.

The Great Passion Play of Eureka Springs can be seen from the last weekend of April to the last weekend of October with performances four and five nights a week.

The emphasis on sorrow and grief was to be replaced by one which also includes the whole community's worship of God and in which the deceased is entrusted to God's love, based on trust in the salvific value of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

( In the pre-Vatican II rite, crucifixes and statues are covered with violet covers during Passion time, but the crucifix covers can be white instead of violet on Holy Thursday.

While there is no celebration of the Eucharist, Holy Communion is distributed to the faithful only in the Service of the Passion of the Lord, but can be taken at any hour to the sick who are unable to attend this service.

* The Celebration of the Passion of the Lord takes place in the afternoon, ideally at three o ' clock, but for pastoral reasons a later hour may be chosen.

Although Gibson wanted to call his film The Passion, on October 16, 2003 his spokesman announced that the title used in the United States would be The Passion of Christ because Miramax had already registered the title The Passion with the MPAA for the 1987 novel by Jeanette Winterson.