April 2017
St. John Passion Play at Lockland Christian Church
Centennial year! The St. John Passion Play has been presented every year since World War I. Like the world-famous Obergammerau Passion Play that inspired it, the Cincinnati St. John Passion Play is the result of a war-time vow. Parishioners of St. John the Baptist Church in Over-the-Rhine, grieving the loss of eight servicemen, gathered after a 1917 performance of a play about St. Veronica written by their pastor, and vowed to perform a play about the Passion of Christ every…
Find out more »St. John Passion Play at Lockland Christian Church
Centennial year! The St. John Passion Play has been presented every year since World War I. Like the world-famous Obergammerau Passion Play that inspired it, the Cincinnati St. John Passion Play is the result of a war-time vow. Parishioners of St. John the Baptist Church in Over-the-Rhine, grieving the loss of eight servicemen, gathered after a 1917 performance of a play about St. Veronica written by their pastor, and vowed to perform a play about the Passion of Christ every…
Find out more »St. John Passion Play at Lockland Christian Church
Centennial year! The St. John Passion Play has been presented every year since World War I. Like the world-famous Obergammerau Passion Play that inspired it, the Cincinnati St. John Passion Play is the result of a war-time vow. Parishioners of St. John the Baptist Church in Over-the-Rhine, grieving the loss of eight servicemen, gathered after a 1917 performance of a play about St. Veronica written by their pastor, and vowed to perform a play about the Passion of Christ every…
Find out more »March 2018
St. John Passion Play in Lockland
The St. John Passion Play will be performed at Lockland Christian Church on March 24 (7 p.m.) and 25 (3 p.m.). The pageant has been performed every year since 2018, when parishioners of St. John (A Franciscan parish in Over-the-Rhine) promised to put it on every year in thanksgiving for the safety of the parish's soldiers fighting in Europe. The parish has been gone sincee 1955 but a coalition of Catholics and Protestants from around the region mount the play ever…
Find out more »St. John Passion Play in Lockland
The St. John Passion Play will be performed at Lockland Christian Church on March 24 (7 p.m.) and 25 (3 p.m.). The pageant has been performed every year since 2018, when parishioners of St. John (A Franciscan parish in Over-the-Rhine) promised to put it on every year in thanksgiving for the safety of the parish’s soldiers fighting in Europe. The parish has been gone sincee 1955 but a coalition of Catholics and Protestants from around the region mount the play ever…
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