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Calvary
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Calvary (kăl`vərē) [Lat.,=a skull] or Golgotha (gŏl`gəthə) [Heb.,=a skull], in the Gospels, place where Jesus was crucified, outside what was then the wall of Jerusalem. Its location is not certainly known. The traditional identification of the site of Calvary was made by St. Helena, the mother of the Emperor Constantine, when she found (c.326) what was believed to be a relic of the actual cross on which Jesus was crucified. The spot is within the Church of the Holy Sepulcher Holy Sepulcher (sĕp`əlkər), church in Jerusalem, officially the Church of the Resurrection.
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. In 1885 General Charles G. Gordon proposed a site near the Damascus Gate, first suggested in 1842. This is called the Garden Tomb or Gordon's Calvary.

Calvary

 or Golgotha

Hill in Jerusalem. The purported site of Jesus' Crucifixion, the hill was outside the Old City walls of Jerusalem and near the sepulchre where Jesus was said to have been afterward interred. Its exact location is uncertain, but most scholars prefer either the spot now covered by the Church of the Holy Sepulchre or a hillock called Gordon's Calvary north of the Damascus Gate.


Calvary
the place just outside the walls of Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified

Calvary
(Golgotha) where Christ was crucified. [N.T.: Luke 23:33]
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We are a long way from Nero, but from the front pages of newspapers and the nightly news to cabinet tables and judges' chambers, ours is a landscape of Calvaries.
I know That care has iron crowns for many brows; That Calvaries are everywhere, whereon Virtue is crucified, and nails and spears Draw guiltless blood, that sorrow sits and drinks At sweetest hearts, till all their life is dry; That gentle spirits on the rack of pain Grow faint or fierce, and pray and curse by turns; That hell's temptations, clad in heavenly guise And armed with might, lie evermore in wait Along life's path, giving assault to all.
 
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