Thirty-fold: Extreme gravitational lensing of a quiescent galaxy at
  $z=1.6$
  We report the discovery of eMACSJ1341-QG-1, a quiescent galaxy at $z=1.594$
located behind the massive galaxy cluster eMACSJ1341.9$-$2442 ($z=0.835$). The
system was identified as a gravitationally lensed triple image in Hubble Space
Telescope images obtained as part of a snapshot survey of the most X-ray
luminous galaxy clusters at $z>0.5$ and spectroscopically confirmed in
ground-based follow-up observations with the ESO/X-Shooter spectrograph. From
the constraints provided by the triple image, we derive a first, crude model of
the mass distribution of the cluster lens, which predicts a gravitational
amplification of a factor of $\sim$30 for the primary image and a factor of
$\sim$6 for the remaining two images of the source, making eMACSJ1341-QG-1 by
far the most strongly amplified quiescent galaxy discovered to date. Our
discovery underlines the power of SNAPshot observations of massive, X-ray
selected galaxy clusters for lensing-assisted studies of faint background
populations.
