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HT]© Olive-TVee. 
“F air olive-tree in the plains.” 
The common olive-tree grows in warm cli¬ 
mates, and rises to the height of twenty or thirty 
feet, having an upright stem or trunk with num-» 
erous branches. 
This tree is much cultivated for its fruit. 
Christ, Our Savior. 
TT S the olive-branch is an emblem of peace, so is the olive-^ree a true 
symbol of Jesus Christ, who is “the Prince of Peace ” as the prophet 
calls Him. The fruit of the olive-tree yields the oil for sacred unctions, 
and Christ is u The Anointed ." 
Jesus, advancing towards the Garden of Olives, was the true Olive- 
Tree, the prolific Olive-Tree, for there, by the opening of His veins, and 
by the effusion of His blood, He grafted us upon His own stem, and united 
and incorporated with Himself the wild and barren olive-trees, which are 
our souls, in order to make them fructify by His own virtue, through the 
supernatural sap of His grace and of His love. 
Christ is the True Olive-Tree that ever rises in a stately and majestic 
manner, to rejoice the Church on earth, and just as admirably ascending 
from Mount Olive, He rejoiced the Church in Heaven forevermore. 
