Pastor Dies Watching 'Passion of Christ'
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
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Reuters
Soares is at least the second person to die while watching "The Passion," which opened in Brazil on Friday. Peggy Scott, 56, died of a heart attack on Feb. 25 in Wichita, Kansas while watching film's climactic crucifixion scene.
Jarreth Merz, who plays Simon of Cyrene, right, helps Jim Caviezel, portraying Jesus Christ, carry a cross on the set of "The Passion of the Christ" in this Jan. 24, 2003 photo.
Image Credit: Philippe Antonello, Marquis Films Ltd. -- for AP
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil -- Reuters
A Brazilian pastor died of an apparent heart attack while watching the Mel Gibson film "The Passion of the Christ," witnesses say.
Jose Geraldo Soares, a 43-year-old Presbyterian pastor, had reserved two movie theaters at a Belo Horizonte shopping mall on Sunday afternoon to see the film with his family and the congregations of two local churches.
But halfway through the movie, Soares' wife noticed that he was no longer awake. A doctor who was also watching the film tended to Soares, but the priest was already dead.
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