Garden of Gethesmane

More steep downhill brings you to the Garden of Gethesmane where Jesus prayed on the last night before his arrest. The name translates as 'oil press' and is now a grove of ancient olive trees. A study conducted by the Italian National Research Council found that three of the olive trees in the garden are amongst the oldest known to science. Dates of AD 1092, 1166 and 1198 were obtained by carbon dating from older parts of the trunks of three trees.

Beside the garden is the Roman Catholic Church of All Nations.Weiterlesen