GETHSEMANE, may signify the Oilpress. This was a village in the Mount of Olives, whither Jesus Christ, somesometimes retreated in the night-time. It was in a garden belonging to this village that he prayed, sweat blood and water, was Vide Matt. xxvi. 36, & seq.taken and arrested by Judas, and the rest, who were conducted by this Traitor.
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Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., “Gethsemane,” in Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/calmet-dictionary/g/gethsemane/.