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Passion in the Desert

Director/Producer:Lavinia CurrierWriters:Lavinia Currier and Martin EdmundsDirector of Photography:Alexei RodionovEditor:Nicolas GasterMusic:Jose NietoProduction Designer:Amanda McArthurFine…

Passion of Mind

Director:Alain BerlinerWriters:Ron Bass, David FieldParamount Classics; PG-13; 112 minutesRelease:5/00Cast:Demi Moore, Stellan Skarsgard, Will Fichtner Doubled Demi Moores: one successful…

passion music

(Encyclopedia) passion music, choral music whose text depicts events immediately surrounding the crucifixion of Jesus. The earliest passions, composed from the 9th to the 14th cent., were monophonic…

Brewer's: Queen Passion

(The Great). Love. The gallant Jew Of mortal hearts the great queen passion knew. PeterPimdar: Portfolio; Dinah. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Queen…

Brewer's: Passion Flower

The leaf symbolises the spear. The five anthers, the five wounds. The tendrils, the cords or whips. The column of the ovary, the pillar of the cross. The stamens, the hammers. The…

Brewer's: Grande Passion

(The). Love. “This is scarcely sufficient ... to supply the element ... so indispensable to the existence of a grande passion.” —Nineteenth Century (February, 1892, p. 210). Source:…

Passion play

(Encyclopedia) Passion play, genre of the miracle play that has survived from the Middle Ages into modern times. Its subject is the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Passion plays were…

Seth, in the Bible

(Encyclopedia) Seth, in the Bible, son of Adam and Eve, father of Enosh. In the chronology in the Gospel of St. Luke, Seth is an ancestor of Jesus. The Nag Hammadi codices preserve revelatory…

Paul of the Cross, Saint

(Encyclopedia) Paul of the Cross, Saint, 1694–1775, Italian, religious founder of the Passionists. His original name was Paolo Francesco Danei. He had visions calling him to found a new order and…

Passion cycle

(Encyclopedia) Passion cycle, in art, the depiction of the last events in the life of Jesus. The Passion was a favorite subject of medieval and Renaissance artists and was considered the most…