Photo by sshb

Kevin Kelly posted about an amazing event held every ten years in Oberammergau, Germany.

In the early seventeenth century, as plague raced across Europe, the people of this small town made a deal with God: spare us and we’ll perform a Passion play every ten years. All of us. The whole town.

True to their word, they’ve done this every decade since. The first performance was in 1634, and ever since it’s been at the turn of the decade. It’s a startling event, because everyone in the town really is involved.

The next one is in 2010 and I’m going to try to go.