As his closest friends slept in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus suffered the agony of facing his crucifixion. An angel ministered to him.

"I withdrew into the Garden of Gethsemane, that is to say into solitude... It was thus I offered Myself to carry out the redemption of the world....

"At the same moment I felt all the torments of My Passion burst overwhelmingly upon Me: ...the insults...the scourging and the Crown of Thorns, the thirst...the Cross...thronged before My eyes and pressed upon My Heart, while at one and the same time I saw all the offenses, sins and crimes that were to be committed throughout the ages... I not only witnessed them all, but was invested in them...."

(as told to visionary Sr. Josefa Menendez)