Passion Play (short Story)
The Passion Play or Easter pageant is a dramatic Play (theatre), presentation depicting the Passion (Christianity), Passion of Jesus Christ: his Sanhedrin Trial of Jesus, trial, suffering and death. The viewing of and participation in Passion Plays is a traditional part of Lent in several Christian denominations, particularly in the Catholic Church, Catholic and Evangelicalism, Evangelical traditions; as such Passion Plays are often ecumenical Christian productions. Passion Plays have had a long and complex history involving faith and Anglican devotions, devotion, civic Medieval pageant, pageantry, religious and political censorship, large-scale revival and Historical reenactment, historical re-enactments. Origin and history in the United Kingdom The origin and development of Passion Plays in the UK can be traced back to one of the earliest pieces of theatre in Britain, which was the Quem quaeritis?, Quem Quaeritis: four lines spoken by two choirs addressing each other in a ...
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Golgotha
Calvary ( la, Calvariae or ) or Golgotha ( grc-gre, Γολγοθᾶ, ''Golgothâ'') was a site immediately outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus was said to have been crucified according to the canonical Gospels. Since at least the early medieval period, it has been a destination for pilgrimage. The exact location of Calvary has been traditionally associated with a place now enclosed within one of the southern chapels of the multidenominational Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a site said to have been recognized by the Roman empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, during her visit to the Holy Land in 325. Other locations have been suggested: in the 19th century, Protestant scholars proposed a different location near the Garden Tomb on Green Hill (now "Skull Hill") about north of the traditional site and historian Joan Taylor has more recently proposed a location about to its south-southeast. Biblical references and names The English names Calvary and Golgotha der ...
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