Gethsemane

Gethsemane 

Gethsemane has two meanings:

1) A place or occasion of great mental or spiritual suffering as shown in the following example:

"She looked at the half fainting, praying creature beside her and then at the approaching man. And a moment of Gethsemane came to her." THE TEST OF LOVE - Barbara Merriden Came Near Giving Up a Brave Man For a Coward. Chicago Tribune.

2) Gethsemane is a garden close to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem where based on the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus underwent the agony in the garden and he was arrested the night before his crucifixion. It is a location of great resonance in Christianity. There are several small olive groves in church property, all adjacent to each other and identified with biblical Gethsemane. {Note: Here, resonance means a feeling, thought, inference that a piece of writing or music makes you have or the quality in a piece of writing, etc. that makes this happen as shown in the following example:

This book has many resonances for me.

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