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Spiritual Conferences On the Mysteries of Faith, and the Interior Life
Spiritual Conferences On the Mysteries of Faith and the Interior Life Author:Henry Collins General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1875 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: XI. JLfllap of tlje Cro0£f. "Attend, and see if there be any sorrow like unto My sorrow.'' THE first scene of the way of the cross is laid in the Garden of GethsemanL The supper room, in which our Lord kept the Pasch with His disciples, stands upon Mount Sion. It was converted into a church by S. Helena, but the Turks now use it as a mosque. Pilgrims to Jerusalem are still allowed to see it. It is about a mile and a half from Gethsemani. When Judas had gone out, our Lord held His last conversation with His disciples, and made them His last discourse. This finished, He went out with them to the Mount of Olives to the Garden of Gethsemani. This garden is situated on the opposite side of the brook Cedron. It is about seventy yards in length and in breadth. There still remain in it eight very aged olive trees, whose appearance is so different from that of all others on the mountain that it has always struck even the most indifferent observers. Their gnarled trunks and scanty foliage are evidences of their immense age; and, as it is ascertained that olive trees live on for thousands of years, there is every reason to believe that these venerable trees were the very ones under whose shadow the Lord suffered His agony and bloody sweat. Such is the tradition preserved from the time of Constantine. An ancient book of some threehundred years ago says there were then nine olive trees; only eight now remain. Towards the further end of the garden is a grotto of about fourteen feet in diameter. Its vault is supported by three great unhewn pillars, formed of the same red rock as the grotto, and without shape. The...« less