CALVARY

Calvary

Italic textCalvary, or Golgotha, was, according to the Gospels, a site immediately outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus was crucified. Golgotha is the Greek transcription in the New Testament of an Aramaic term that has traditionally been presumed to be Gûlgaltâ . The Bible translates the term to mean place of 1 skull, which in Greek is Κρανίου Τόπος, and in Latin is Calvariae Locus, from which the English word Calvary is derived.

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calvary

Noun

  1. A life-size representation of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on a piece of raised ground
  2. A series of representations of Christ’s Passion in a church
  3. A strenuous experience


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