Word: priestes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jesus bearing the cross to Calvary. Followed by children dressed as angels, he parades through the streets to the main square, where he meets a second procession displaying an image of the Virgin Mary. On Good Friday there is another procession and a symbolic burial, after which the priest carries a cross from house to house for the people to kiss. On Easter Sunday, as on the days before, the whole town goes to Mass and most of the 6,000 inhabitants hang their best embroidered bedspreads or tablecloths from their balconies...
...Episcopal priest, the Rev. Claudius I. Vermilye Jr., who ran a farm for wayward teens in Winchester, Tenn., is awaiting trial on charges that he staged homosexual orgies with boys on the farm and mailed pictures of activities to donors around the country...
...betrayer Judas Iscariot (Ian MacShane). Far from the calculating hypocrite of tradition, the TV Judas is a confused young man who leads the soldiers to Jesus so he can clear himself, never realizing that a trial will occur. He is the innocent tool of Zerah (Ian Holm), a fictional priest who is the villain in the Sanhedrin...
...does the film shy away from the miracles. It unquestioningly depicts the feeding of the 5,000, the raising of Lazarus and several healings. It does avoid some miracles, e.g., the walking on water, that would be difficult to portray realistically. At the trial before the Sanhedrin, the High Priest Caiaphas asks Jesus if he is indeed "the Messiah, the Son of the Living God." Jesus replies flatly, "I am," an act of blasphemy that leads directly to his execution. Zeffirelli could have used Christ's indirect answer in Matthew and Luke: "You have said so," but he preferred...
...marriage Chiang Ch'ing took charge of [a] son of Mao's (whether he was Ho Tzu-chen's child was unclear). This little boy evidently had been sent to Moscow and later returned to Shanghai, where he was put in the care of a priest, a man with two wives who turned out to be vicious women. They beat the boy so mercilessly that his sense of balance was permanently impaired. How well Chiang Ch'ing remembered his little body rocking crazily left and right. Even years later he still swerved from side to side...