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unusual facts about The Passion of Christ



Diego de San Pedro

This spiritual text, written in octosyllabic verses and direct speech, describes the Passion of Christ in horrific detail.

Protevangelium

There is a direct reference to the Protevangelium in the opening moments of Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ, where the character of Jesus, while praying in a garden, stomps on the head of a snake.


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Arthur Somervell

He achieved success in his own day as a composer of choral works such as The Forsaken Merman (1895), Intimations of Immortality (which he conducted at Leeds Festival in 1907), and The Passion of Christ (1914) but is now chiefly remembered for his song cycles such as Maud (after Tennyson, 1898) and the first known setting (1904) of A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad.

Ascetical theology

Thomas of Jesus (died 1582) wrote the "Passion of Christ" and "De oratione dominica".

Ferrer Bassa

It includes some twenty scenes basing on two main themes: the Passion of Christ and the Seven Pains of the Virgin, showing Giottesque influences, as well as from Duccio di Buoninsegna and Ambrogio Lorenzetti.