Gethsémani

In the Bible

Gethsémani or Gethsémané (in Araméen, “the oil press”) is a place indicating a Oliveraie with the foot of the Mount of Olives, known in the Gospels to be the theater of Passion of Jesus de Nazareth.

Crossing the torrent of the Cédron, Jesus and his disciples gained a garden located at the foot of the Mount of Olives, called Gethsémani where undoubtedly it usually came to bivouac with his disciples. Judas, which knew it, led to it those which came to stop it.

Then Jesus arrives with them to a field called Gethsémani and says to them: “Remain here, while I from there over there will request myself. ”|Gospel of the apostle Mathieu chapter 26, verse 36

History (Byzantine time)

A church was built with the bottom of the Mount of Olives, over a rock commemorating the place where Jesus requested, a will petra which is mentioned at the beginning of this century by the Pilgrim of Bordeaux. The place is not far from the cave which at that time commemorated the place of the arrest of Jesus, this according to the description of the pélerine Égérie. The church disappeared with and was rebuilt, about on the same plan, only at the beginning of.

Other

Gethsemane is also the title of a song of the Finnish group Nightwish, on their album Oceanborn (2002).

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