Word: groundsel
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...Holy Thursday of 1956, the Garden of Gethsemane glows with flowers beneath its ancient olive trees-the poppies and daisies, the groundsel, ranunculus, garlic and blue lupine that grew wild there when Jesus sweated blood in the agony of His prayer: "My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me." In the grotto nearby, where Judas betrayed his Master with a kiss, the murals from the Byzantine and Crusader periods have peeled away, and the air is still dank from the winter's rains...
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