On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau

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"Accursed be the hour I raised you from the dust to my
side."--Page 339.
ON THE CROSS
A
Romance of the Passion Play at
Oberammergau
BY

Wilhelmine von Hillern
AND
Mary J. Safford
DREXEL BIDDLE, PUBLISHER
PHILADELPHIA
Copyright, 1902
BY
ANTHONY J. DREXEL BIDDLE.
PRESS OF DREXEL BIDDLE, PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A.

TO
HERR JOHANNES DIEMER,
THE RENOWNED DELIVERER OF THE PROLOGUE IN THE PASSION
PLAYS
OF THE LAST DECADE, A TRUE SON OF AMMERGAU, IN WHOSE
UNASSUMING PERSON DWELLS THE CALM, DEEP SOUL OF
THE ARTIST, THE LOYAL SYMPATHIZING FRIEND, IN
WHOSE PEACEFUL HOME I FOUND THE QUIET
AND THE MOOD I NEEDED TO COMPLETE
THIS WORK, IT IS NOW DEDICATED,
WITH GRATEFUL ESTEEM, BY
THE AUTHORESS.
CONTENTS.
Introduction.
CHAPTER I.
A Phantom.
CHAPTER II.
Old Ammergau.

CHAPTER III.
Young Ammergau.
CHAPTER IV.
Expelled from the Play.
CHAPTER V.
Modern Pilgrims.
CHAPTER VI.
The Evening Before the Play.
CHAPTER VII.
The Passion Play.
CHAPTER VIII.
Freyer.
CHAPTER IX.
Signs and Wonders.
CHAPTER X.

In the Early Morning.
CHAPTER XI.
Mary and Magdalene.
CHAPTER XII.
Bridal Torches.
CHAPTER XIII.
Banished from Eden.
CHAPTER XIV.
Pieta.
CHAPTER XV.
The Crowing of the Cock.
CHAPTER XVI.
Prisoned.
CHAPTER XVII.
Flying from the Cross.

CHAPTER XVIII.
The Marriage.
CHAPTER XIX.
At the Child's Bedside.
CHAPTER XX.
Conflicts.
CHAPTER XXI.
Unaccountable.
CHAPTER XXII.
Falling Stars.
CHAPTER XXIII.
Noli me Tangere.
CHAPTER XXIV.
Attempts to Rescue.
CHAPTER XXV.
Day is Dawning.

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