. Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol. en instituted in fulfilment of avow registered bythe inhabitants of the village in the year 1633 at the convent of Ettal,on deliverance from a pestilence, — that in thankful devotion, andfor edifying contemplation, they would every ten years publicly repre-sent the Passion of Jesus, the Saviour of the world. OBER AMMERGAU. 37 This was the reason that so many representations of the crucifixionbore underneath it the words, Durch Seine Wunden sind wir geheilet(Through His wounds we are healed). At each returning decade (ex-cept during the Franco-Prussian war, wh
. Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol. en instituted in fulfilment of avow registered bythe inhabitants of the village in the year 1633 at the convent of Ettal,on deliverance from a pestilence, — that in thankful devotion, andfor edifying contemplation, they would every ten years publicly repre-sent the Passion of Jesus, the Saviour of the world. OBER AMMERGAU. 37 This was the reason that so many representations of the crucifixionbore underneath it the words, Durch Seine Wunden sind wir geheilet(Through His wounds we are healed). At each returning decade (ex-cept during the Franco-Prussian war, when it was postponed one year)the Mystery has been repeated; and although it has been assertedthat what was originally ah act of devotion only was now mixed withthe motives of gain and love of applause, still Valerie was sure thatreligious fervor was the mainspring of the really wonderful was a rapt interest, such as she had never seen in any otherperformance. Not only the principal actors threw themselves into their. BEFORE HEROD. parts, but every performer down to the merest child was possessed byan intense ambition to make his part absolutely perfect. Throughthe long duration of the tableaux the most difficult poses were sus-tained with the immobility of statues. There was no gesture orglance which was not in character. Indeed for the time being italmost seemed as if they believed themselves to be the too was Valeries feeling. All of her enjoyment of the actingand the art displayed in the representation came to her it seemed to her real, and herself a part of it. She fancied her-self standing with the mob before Pilates house, applauding the 138 THREE VASSAR GIRLS IN THE TYROL. Roman governor as he refused to be the tool of the Sanhedrim, andlater watching his wavering with intense anxiety. She shared Marysanguish in the affecting parting scene at Bethany, and at the terriblyrealistic crucifixion, and the still more impressive desc
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